It's a small world.

My father started working for Bethlehem Steel at about the same time after graduating from Columbia. He retired in 1960 after working for them in Brooklyn, Mexico, Cuba, West Virginia and once more in Cuba (Bethlehem Cuba Iron Mines Company) from 1945 through 1960. My own first job as an engineer in 1966 was with Bethlehem Steel's Marmoraton Mining Company in Ontario after a 6 week orientation (the Loop Course) in Bethlehem. But I stayed with them for only a year before finding a job with Kodak in Rochester.

The Bethlehem corporate office was a marvel to visit. When you arrived for an appointment you were escorted by a uniformed page to your destination. The corporate dining rooms were elegant. But my favorite rooms were the beautiful displays of large model ships - as good as the warship displays in the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington.

Small indeed! From the mid 40s to retirement my grandad was never on a contact trip that he didn’t have someone in the loop course with him. Do you recall the names of some of those you accompanied on the course? The only corporate dining room I remember was that at the BthSteel Club..great golf course too(played my first round of golf there..I was 12... and many later). The Club had a superb dining room. Whenever my folks and I visited my grandparents my grandad made sure we had at least one meal at the Club. He was also a member of the Lehigh University Faculty Club which offered great dining as well.
A small world, indeed!