Albert C Allen 1916-2008: Jeff Allen: Letters from AL

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A moving letter to Jeff on his birthday in 1998.

Al's Last letter to his kids--August 8, 2008

A note on Katie's wedding plans in 1996

Cute Birthday card in 1991

Al's Timeline in Business

Below is a summary time line of ACA's work career.

1938 ………….tossed out of College, takes a position with the Burry Biscuit Company in Westchester, New York

1940…………..marries Rosemary Allen and is working at "Congratuations Magazine"

1941-1943……with brother Miner, buys the M&A Manufacturing Company and relocates to Salem, Massachusetts. Jeff and Rich are born.

1944-1948……joins Sylvania Corporation as Sale Representative in NY office. Relocates to Westchester and Larry and Marcie are born.

1948………….joins Dale Distributing Company in NYC

1949-1953……DuMont Television…becomes mid-west Regional Sales Manager and relocates to Chicago.

1954………….starts Allen Distributing Company in Providence. Family relocates to Rockport, then Barrington RI. Lisa is born. Moodmaster, Allencraft and other products are developed

1962-1965…….Allen Distributing buys PM&E Electronics of East Providence and changes its name. Takes on a 50% owner as partner. Travelab is developed and PM&E gains foothold in the airline passenger entertainment headset industry.

1966-1967…….PM&E raises capital through private sale of non-voting stock and uses money to purchase Budek Flim & Slides and Patton MacGuyer.

1968……………changes its name to Avid Corporation

1971………….ACA buys out partner's share taking over the company

1971-1980……Stereo speaker line introduced and company splits to 4 operating division growing sales to over $10MM

1981-1982……..Sale of the company's 4 divisions and Avid Corporation is closed

1982-2008……..ACA retires and becomes the successful investor and a zesty philanthropist.

Donne: A Valediction forbidding Mourning.

John Donne: A Valediction forbidding Mourning.
(as eloquently recited by Rich at Al's interment.)

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ;
Men reckon what it did, and meant ;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
—Whose soul is sense—cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove
The thing which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two ;
My soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.

And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt all thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

Albert C Allen 1916-2008

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Al's Timeline in Business

Donne: A Valediction forbidding Mourning.