Vintage FIRESTONE 5 Year Employee Service Pin 10K GOLD top JACK E GIECK retired

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Vintage FIRESTONE 5 Year Employee Service Pin 10K GOLD top JACK E GIECK retired:
$10.50

WoW!!! Straight from a local estate (JACK E GIECK) comes this OLD-TIME Firestone FIVE YEAR Employee Service Pin!! You\'ll love the content & detail. The pin is intact. JACK E GIECK retired from Firestone in 1982... see below. He was an engineer at Firestone. Condition is nice for age. You please be the judge... See photos for condition. What you see in photos is what you get. Measures 3/8 inches tall. Nicely marked... see photos: MACO 10K TOP 15083. Buy these neat pieces when you can!! See photos below for condition. Please see my other sales for many other SWEET PIECES from this collection / estate!! ((We will combine shipping)) Buyer pays S/H. (Remember insurance cost will be included in the s/h, which may be adjusted after sale closes, please wait for invoice) Questions please ask.

HERE IS PART OF WHAT THE AKRON BEACON JOURNAL Published at the time of his death:

He took early retirement in 1982 from the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. where he had been director of new product development for non-tire products to become a full-time writer and producer of industrial, educational and historical films.

“He was legendary in many ways,” said David Lieberth, board chair of the Summit County Historical Society. “He was truly one of Akron’s Renaissance men. … He had an incredible knowledge of the city’s history, and he taught me a lot. He also did as much as anyone to preserve Akron’s history through his filmmaking, writing and research.”

Mr. Gieck set up his own company, Cinemark Inc., and won numerous awards for his work. He did a number of films for Firestone and did a history of Alcoholics Anonymous, which started in Akron.

Among his films were City at the Summit, a 38-minute film for Akron’s 150th birthday in 1976, and a film for the University of Akron’s sesquicentennial in 1970. He produced a 66-minute educational film called Ohio’s Canal Era in 1978. It won numerous awards.

Mr. Gieck also authored five books, including A Photo Album of Ohio’s Canal Era, 1825-1913 and Early Akron’s Industrial Valley: A History of the Cascade Locks. Both were published through the Kent State University Press.

He also wrote books about a true-life crime story in Oregon, Fatal Journey, and a story about U.S. military court-martial in Litchfield, England, after World War II. It was titled Litchfield: The U.S. Army on Trial. His fifth book was on vehicle suspension systems.

He served as photo editor of University of Akron emeritus professor George Knepper’s 1981 book, Akron, City at the Summit.

“Jack was a very versatile guy,” Knepper said. “I admired him greatly. He had extraordinary balance in his life. … He was a busy, busy guy. He didn’t take to idleness. He got things done.”

Mr. Gieck was a past president of the Canal Society of Ohio and a honorary trustee for life. He was a board member of Akron’s Cascade Locks Park Association and a trustee of the Summit County Historical Society.

A native of Milwaukee, Mr. Gieck grew up in St. Louis. He started making films as a teen in Missouri and was self-taught.

He received a degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State University and served as an officer in the U.S. Army in Europe. He joined Firestone in 1947. He left the company and later returned.

He was an inventor and was responsible for an innovative bumper installed on buses.