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TODAY’S TOPIC: CONSONANCE TO INTERNAL ENERGY DYNAMICS
Use it wherever you can find it; it is all about Hard work, Opportunity, Resourcefulness and Leverage Complementing Inner Flows by Outward Floors! ....Life’s Essence from a Legend
The Amazing Story of R. G. Le Tourneau
Robert Gilmour LeTourneau was a prolific inventor of earth moving machinery. His machines represented nearly 70 percent of the earth moving equipment and engineering vehicles used during World War II, and over the course of his life he secured nearly 300 patents. With the help of his wife, the late Evelyn Peterson (1900-1987), he founded Le Tourneau University, a private, Christian institution, in Longview, Texas. Le Tourneau was widely known as a devoted Christian and generous philanthropist to Christian causes, including the "LeTourneau Christian Center" camp and conference grounds in Rushville, New York. LeTourneau was often referred to by his contemporaries as "God's businessman." …….That was Massive Action Plans by Personal Ingenuity
At the age of fourteen, he left school, with the blessing, but with concern from his Christian parents. He moved from Vermont to Duluth, Minnesota, then to Portland, Oregon, where he began to work as an apprentice ironmonger at the East Portland Iron Works. While learning the foundry and machinist trades, he studied mechanics from an International Correspondence Schools course that had been given to him, though he never completed any course assignments. He later moved to San Francisco, where he worked at the Yerba Buena Power Plant and learned welding, and became familiar with the application of electricity. In 1909, he moved to Stockton, California. During this time, LeTourneau worked at a number of jobs including wood cutter, farm hand, miner and carpenter’s laborer, acquiring knowledge of the manual trades that proved valuable in later life……That was Passion in Opportunity Sandwich
In 1911, LeTourneau was employed at the Superior Garage, in Stockton, where he learned about vehicle mechanics and later became half-owner of the business. In 1917, he married Evelyn Peterson, the daughter of a draying company owner from Minnesota. Refused military service because of permanent neck injuries sustained in a car-racing accident, LeTourneau worked during World War I as a maintenance assistant at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Vallejo, California, where he was trained as an electrical machinist and improved his welding skills. After the war, LeTourneau returned to Stockton and discovered the Superior Garage business had failed. To repay his portion of the debts, he took a job repairing a Holt Manufacturing Company crawler-tractor and was then employed by the tractor owner to level 40 acres (160,000 m2) using the tractor and a towed scraper……That was a Knack for Full Expression by Calculated Intention
His Move into Manufacturing
This type of work appealed to LeTourneau, and in January 1920 he purchased a used Holt tractor and, with a hired scraper, began business as a regrading contractor. In May 1921, he purchased a plot of land in Stockton and established an engineering workshop, where he designed and built several types of scrapers. Combining contracting and earth moving equipment manufacturing, his business expanded and in 1929 incorporated in California as "R.G. LeTourneau, Inc."LeTourneau completed many earth moving projects during the 1920s and early 1930s, including the Boulder Highway to Hoover Dam, in Nevada, the Marysville Levees, Orange County Dam and the Newhall Cut-off, in California. In 1933, LeTourneau retired from contracting to devote his attention to the manufacturing of earth moving equipment. In 1935, he built a manufacturing plant in Peoria, Illinois, and the continued expansion of his business saw the establishment of manufacturing plants in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1938, in Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia, in 1941, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1942, and in Longview, Texas in 1945……That was tenacity sandwiched with Creative Concepts for multi-dimensional Releases
During his lifetime, he held hundreds of patents on inventions relating to earth moving equipment, manufacturing processes and machine tools. His factories supplied 70 percent of all heavy earth moving equipment used by the Allied forces during World War II.In 1953, LeTourneau sold his entire earth moving equipment line to the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. He then applied his ingenuity to the development of the electric wheel drive concept. In 1958, at the age of seventy, LeTourneau re-entered the earth moving equipment manufacturing business, offering contractors a range of high capacity earthmoving, transportation, and material handling machines based on the revolutionary electric wheel drive system he had developed. An electric wheel drive is also called an electric Wheel hub motor.
In 1965, I.C.S. awarded LeTourneau his diploma in engineering, 50 years after he studied the course. LeTourneau was 76 at the time and, in accepting the diploma, jovially remarked to executive assistant, Nels Stjernstrom: "So now I've got a diploma. Now I'm educated."…..Until you work it out through hard work and dedication, you don’t mount up the hill of significance
LeTourneau was active in his company as president and chairman of the board from 1929 until 1966. He also held the position of chief engineer, personally working alongside his engineers and employees throughout his working life. Having spent his entire life around earth moving equipment, LeTourneau was just as likely to be seen at the controls of one of his machines, as he was to be seen attending to corporate matters. It was well known that he preferred the former.In 1966, at age 77, LeTourneau handed over presidency of his company to his son, Richard. LeTourneau continued to work each day and could be found at the drawing board in his modest office, designing new ways to move larger loads faster and more economically.
LeTourneau shunned the high-life often associated with successful businessmen, preferring to spend his time at the drawing board with the engineers designing new machinery or spending time on the factory floor overseeing his employees. …..The knowledge of when to retire, recline and retract is key to Full Expression
His Personal pursuits and awards
Letourneau held many respected positions throughout his life as a Christian layman, including as a leader in the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church, president of the Christian Business Men's Committee (CBMC) and president of the Gideons International. Being a man of great Christian commitment and dedication, for 30 years he flew thousands of miles each week to maintain Christian speaking engagements around the United States and overseas.
LeTourneau was a firm believer in the effectiveness of practical instruction combined with classroom studies; and, in 1946, he purchased an unused military hospital, accompanying land and buildings in Longview. There he established the LeTourneau Technical Institute at the site of the former Harmon General Hospital to provide sound technical and mechanical training, traditional college courses, and training for missionary technicians, based on the philosophy of combining work, education and Christian testimony. The LeTourneau Technical Institute became a college in its own right, in 1961, and eventually gained "university" status to become LeTourneau University. Today, the university is a busy and growing institution, offering degrees in engineering, aeronautical sciences and liberal arts, along with a strong Christian influence, including three times weekly compulsory chapel attendance for students…..The faith life and fullness is also part and parcel of full expression, personal equilibrium is a holistic gamut
Throughout his career, he was the recipient of more than 30 awards and honors related to engineering, manufacturing and the development of heavy equipment. In 1936, he was presented with the "Appreciation of Service Achievement 1931-1935," by Six Companies Incorporated for supplying earthmoving equipment to the "Boulder Dam" project. Recognition of service to the earthmoving industry later came from many other contractors in the industry, and, in February 1958, LeTourneau was presented with the "Beavers Award" at the third-annual awards dinner of the Beavers, an association of leaders in the heavy construction industry. In presenting the award to LeTourneau, Beaver president George H. Atkinson, of the highly respected U.S. contractors, Guy F. Atkinson Company, of San Francisco, said, "There is hardly any place in the vast industry that has not benefited through the products of Mr. LeTourneau's inventive genius.
In 1953, LeTourneau began a development project in the country of Liberia, West Africa, with the diverse goals of colonization, land development, agricultural development, livestock introduction, evangelism and philanthropic activities. In 1954, a colonization project with similar objectives to those in Liberia was established in the country of Peru, South America. Legendary works transcend borders and intercontinental waters, think personally and act globally….. The capacity to manifest in totality what is wound up in the inside as properties underscore relevance, donation and massive contribution. It’s a vote for float and flotation for fulfillment.
In March 1969, LeTourneau suffered a severe stoke from which he never recovered. He died on June 1, 1969, at the age of eighty. Besides his wife, Evelyn, LeTourneau was survived by four sons, Richard, Roy, Ted, and Ben, and a daughter, Louise Dick. (Culled from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Vital lessons from his Legacy WHY FLAUNTING R. G. Le Tourneau?
He was legendary even in death: an epitome of a man who leveraged grace and opportunity through stint and hard work for personal distinction and development. He won my heart!
He paid his due. Used what he had, overcame challenges, glided on the wings of adversities and stormy weather, weathered through the terrains of life and godliness through the acknowledgement of the good things inside him. He would not be deterred by any obstacle once he set the sail. You could find him in strangely uncommon fields, an inventor, curator, lover of God, one who gave his all to God and humanity and decades after, he was long gone his voice is not only speaking but compelling……name it, in hard line Engineering, Physics, Sociology, Economics, the Academia, Industry and Ministry!....JUST ONE MAN!!!!!!!
What a man of repute…who would not be repudiated by time- past, present and future. He was a model and a motivation of all time. Even in death, his testament is still speaking volumes.
He was a donation to man and materiality. He never accumulated for personal aggrandizement but for contribution towards public good. His contributions still speak decades after he was long gone. May your end be greater than his
- G. LeTourneau: Your memory is blessed. Rest in perfect peace!!!
THE LAST LINE!
Internal Energy Dynamics finding the right template for appreciation and articulation will lead to a path for an uncommon platform that will endear one to the current and future generations. What will you live and die for? What will be written when you are gone? Borrow a leaf from R.G LeTourneau – who was a River whose streams make glad the city of all stakes and the nations….. past, present and future! Excerpts from my book “Everyday habits for personal distinction”…It is a must read for all Behavioral Marshals in the Universe of Men!