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PALL CORPORATION

DISCLAIMER - This private page is intended solely to facilitate communication among retired and former employees of Pall Corporation and is not to be taken in any way to represent an official page or site of that business entity.

Abraham (ABE) KRASNOFF

(04 Feb 07)

Abe Krasnoff came to Pall as a fledgling CPA who was Doc's (Dr. Pall's) neighbor and was begged to help when Doc's first accountant absconded with the company funds! He passed away on 02 Feb 2007. As noted below, Abe personally hired me (which was a bit of a shock for Bob Gross, for whom he decided I would work) in late September of 1956 (when we had all of 50 employees and a net cap. of $5M!), and I last had the great pleasure of a half hour chat with him in a doctor's waiting room a few months back. He was on regular dialysis but as cheerful as always and still incredibly funny and sharp as a tack.

[Apocrypha about Abe is posted below.] (10 Aug 06)

Francis Eugene (GENE) BISHOP, Jr.

(10 Aug 06)

Gene Bishop came to one of our old-timers's luncheons straight from the hospital and, sadly, passed on shortly afterward; at least we had a grand, good time together before we lost him.

Dr. DAVID B. PALL

Dr. Pall, founder, mentor, and guiding light for so very long, passed away;
the funeral was on 23 Sep 2004 and the local newspaper, NEWSDAY,
had a half-page obituary the following day (page A64).

[Apocrypha about Dr. Pall is posted below.] (10 Aug 06)

CHARLIE ROACH

We deeply regretted announcing the passing of the gentle giant, Charlie Roach,
(a Tuskeegee Airman!) also dearly belovèd of those who knew him well,
who passed away 11 Dec 2002.

CHET SEIBERT

Chesterfield (Chet) Franklin Seibert, Sr.,
a Senior Vice-President of the Corporation
and formerly Chief Engineer of Pall subsidiary Aircraft Porous Media, Inc.,
then in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York.
who was dearly belovèd of those who knew him well,
passed away the week of 01 Jan 2001.

A personal apocryphal note - at a big company party in 1962 (we were quite a family, then), Chet told my wife that she was expecting and that it would be a girl, our first, long before my wife even knew it to be so; he was, of course, quite correct on both counts!

Doc Apoc - Dr. Pall Apocrypha: (10 Aug 06)

Dr. Pall had a ferocious reputation among those who didn't really know him; one of the earliest and best yarns is about the electric drill. Back when the company was young and had just moved to Glen Cove, the electric drill vanished. Doc sent Joe Lodato, the shop forman, to Charles of Glen Cove, the local hardware store, to buy another. It promptly vanished also. After one or more further iterations, Doc blew his stack and sent Joe out to buy one for each shop employee and passed the word that he'd sack anyone who lost his drill! No more drills disappeared.

Each new hire immediately heard about this "terrible tempered Mr. Bang" (Doc) and was appropriately terrified. Thus, when the first lab manager was hired (Howie Abrams) and started work, he approached his job with some trepidation. the very first morning, he started working at the lab bench and found a mild-mannered, pleasant gentleman working next to him so he introduced himself, "Hi, I'm Howie Abrams; I'm new here."; the man said, "Hi, I'm Dave Pall; I'm kinda new here, myself."! Nobody, but nobody, called Doc "Dave" at work!

Abe Krasnoff, a CPA, was Doc's neighbor; one day Doc called him and said that the company accountant had absconded with the company funds - HELP! Abe came and never left, becoming VP (when he hired me), Exec. VP, President, and finally CEO.

My baptism by fire was especially amusing (to me). I had been hired by Abe as a lowly Engineering Aide and fed the usual malarkey about Doc. I'd only been there two weeks when I was summoned to Doc's office! WhuddidIdo? I showed up duly apprehensive to find all the company brass assembled around Doc's desk looking very grave indeed. Doc turned to me and asked if he hadn't said such-and-such a few days before; with my usual bravado (stupidity?) and temerity, I contradicted him and said that he had said so-and so. Abe and Chet Siebert and Les Sewert and Ben Krakauer and all turned deathly white, waiting for Doc's awful wrath to descend upon me. Doc turned toward me, propped his feet up on the desk pullout, clasped his hands over his belly, twiddled his thumbs, and blandly announced to all and sundry, "Well, you can't expect me to be consistent."! I never did, which contributed greatly to my success in dealing with the great man.

[Another benefit I had was that I, whose scrawl is totally undecipherable, could read Doc's otherwise-unreadable "handwriting", an ability I shared only with his secretary.]

One memorable day, Abe called me in in a state of great alarm; on entering his office, I had a note from Doc thrust in my face and a demand for an explanation delivered in terms that would have made Jahweh himself proud. in ever-expanding letter sizes, written diagonally across some innocuous memo of mine, Doc had scrawled in red felt-tip:

"Don't ever, ever, EVER, EVER, EVER let Sam do this again!"

Realizing that Doc had totally misread my memo, I quickly defused the situation but treasure the note (wonder if I can find it squirreled away in my old files?).

There was the time, however, when I very well deserved such. One April First, I issued a company-wide carbon copy of a letter to an obscure division of Bendix Filter, our arch enemy, in which I divulged our greatest secrets and to which I had attached some of our most precious engineering drawings. Of course, there was no such original letter and no such disclosures, but the great flap that ensued was well worth the risk to my hide and to my professionae call, Abe said the job was minel future.

{more to follow}

Abe Apoc - Abe Krasnoff Apocrypha: (05 Feb 07)

As noted above, Abe hired me in late September of 1957 (without telling Bob Gross, for whom he'd hired me); it came about thusly: newly married, I was out interviewing and, on calling my bride, was told that an "Abe" had called from Pall Corporation. I returned the call and Abe, who had interviewed me by himself, said, "The job is yours". Hoping for a job with Acoustica, the ultrasonics firm (even back then!), I brilliantly replied, "I have an other offer; may I get back to you?" Without a pause, Abe said, "You have a job; do you want it or not?". I liked his forcefulness so much that I accepted on the spot.

A group of us were gathered in the middle of Engineering, talking about some part which Doc described as "obround". Smart-ass and word maven then as now, I piped up that "There's no such word!" Doc bemusedly asked how I knew. I brashly asked that if I could prove it, would he capitulate, saying that if it was not in either the unabridged Webster's or Oxord that should do it. Doc accepted the challenge and off I went to peruse both massive tomes, returning to advise that I was right. Doc amiably accepted his error (oh, lived dangerously!) but Abe took me aside later and said that I was STILL wrong. Naturally, I objected and Abe kindly said, "If Dr. Pall says it's obround, IT'S OBROUND!".

Another time, I was expounding on an important point and made the unfortunate mistake of starting to repeat what I'd said, for emphasis (I started to repeat what I'd said, for emphasis). Abe, barely concealing his exasperation, quietly said, "You've MADE your point; STOP!".

I (S.B., III) was an employee of Pall Corporation and it's subsidiary, Aircraft Porous Media, Inc. for many years and offer this page as an initial meeting place for retirees of Pall Corporation and for former employees who left for any reason (other than dishonorable - happily there were exceedingly few of those).

It is the intention to set up an e-mailing list and communicate in that manner until such time as interest might justify creating a secure site on which addresses and telephone numbers could be exchanged.

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