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Bowen Receives
New Position
, A. J. Bowen was elected Vice President and Director of District! Operations for The Pbtotnac Edison Company at a special meeting of the electric company’s Board of Directors, held in; Frederick last Thursday. ♦ j /
Mr. Bowen has been located in Hagerstown where he has served PE as Director of District Operations since April of 1958. As an officer of the company, he will continue to be responsible for personnel, customer services, policies, public relations and other matters of a specifically local nature in all of the eleven districts which make up the System.
He was first employed by the electric utility as a meter reader in Winchester, Va, in 1929. Following a succession of transfers to other departments in that area, he was made local manager at Berryville,
Va. in 1933. j
Four years later he Was transferred to Piedmont, W. Va., as local manager and in '40 he was promoted to the assistant- district managership in Martinsburg, W. Va. In 1942 he returned to Winchester as assistant district manager and held that poaf until he
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