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Hank Ward Hopeman Born
Born in Manhatten, NY
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Moved to Bronxville
35 Elm Rock Rd, Bronxville NY -
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Jr American Yacht Club
From 1956 to 1964, he spent most of his summers at the Jr America Yacht Club -
Taft Prep School
In 1960, Hank attended summer school for English prior to attending Taft Prep School -
Case Institute Of Technology
Hank studied to become a Civil Engineer -
Hopeman Brothers Inc.
In 1968, Hank began working for the family business at Wayne Manufacturing Corp. Waynesboro VA. 22980 -
Married Lynn
In 1968, Hank married Lynn -
Conducted an Acoustical Study
After Hank joined the company, he examined freighters and tankers by conducting tests in a giant, two story, dry kiln in order satisfy union demands. He discovered that the noise in the crew cabins was becoming significantly quieter and added white noise so that they could not hear each other. -
Children
In 1971, Hank and Lynn had their first daughter, Elizabeth.
In 1974, Their first son, Ward, was born. -
Became President of Wayne Manufacturing Corp.
In 1973, He became President of Wayne Manufacturing at the age of 26. -
Oil Embargo
In 1973, an oil embargo was enacted and the production of oil tankers stopped universally. -
Shingles
In 1976, he came down with shingles. Afterwards he drifted from project to project doing smaller things. -
Union Troubles
In 1975, the Shipbuilding Union announced its intention to go on a strike. Hopeman Brothers Inc. had never been late on a contract. In 1976, almost half of the plant was laid off and no one rehired for nearly 3 months due to the union. -
Union Decertified
In 1980, There was a unanimous company vote to leave the union. -
Hopeman Engineering
In 1980, he became he head of Hopeman engineering. -
Nervous Breakdown
In 1984, he had a mild nervous breakdown. For two to three weeks after he went to see a neurologist and rested. -
AWH Headquarters
In 1988, he went down to Winstone Salem NC. to set up the AWH Holding Company headquarters. He bought $30,000 worth of computers and assembled them himself. When he bought the computers he used his air-miles card to do it, so he accidentally ended up with a ton of miles. At this time, he was spending 3 days in Winstone Salem and 4 days in Waynesboro a week. -
AWH in trouble
In 1993, his father, owner of Hopeman Brothers Inc. fires the president of AWH because of fraud. He then hires Jim Bido to be the president, however he was woefully incompetent. Shortly there after, Bido makes a few contracts that become impossible to do under current conditions. Hank attended 3 days of meetings trying to solve this issue. -
President of Wayne Manufacturing Again
Wayne Manufacturing had moved to Lofton. After a night of prayer, Hank offered to run Wayne Manufacturing in an attempt to fix the crisis. Due to the expenses that he used the company neared bankruptcy. -
President of AWH
At the end of 1993, the Head of Human Resources and the General Finance Officer of Hopeman Brothers Inc. convinced Hank to offer to run AWH Holding Company. January 1st, 1994 he became the President of AWH. AWH owned two different types of manufacturing companies, the marine industry, including Wayne Manufacturing Corp, and Hopeman Engineering, and land based industry, including Royston. -
Foot Surgery and 7/11
Throughout his life, The growth plate in his foot slowly grew and in 1994, it was pushing against his achilles causing excruciating pain. It came to a head a week before meeting a high level 7/11 executive preventing him from walking and doing many of the things scheduled with the executive. The next week Hank laid off the President of Royston who worked closely with the 7/11 executive, who he called personally to inform him. -
Royston Branches Out
In 1995, Hank looked for ways for Royston to branch out, one of which was for a time building modular convenience stores for Exxon. -
Father's Death
In 1998, Hank's father died. This also meant that Hank was now the owner of Hopeman Brothers Inc. -
Cinnabar Solutions
In 1998, Hank created a new holding company, Cinnabar Solutions. This was in order to split the marine industry from Royston because they operated differently. -
Sold Marine Division
In 2002, Hank sold the Marine Division an old friend who used to run it, Dave Rathburn. -
Checking Out Checkout Counters
In 2002, Hopeman Brothers Inc. bought 2 companies that build checkout counters. They now made the majority of all checkout counters made in the country. -
Sold Hopeman Brothers Inc.
On July 30th, 2007 Hank sold Hopeman Brother Inc and retired. -
Heart Surgery
In 2008 Hank had an ablation. -
Sunapee
On May 4, 2008 Hank and Lynn moved to Sunapee, NH.
