Has Anyone here used the
Leviton Remembrance? We have one in our second
stage space and we're having issues with it. ?
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Perhaps the
system has gone into mourning upon the passing of the founder of
Leviton:
Quote from LI Newsday:
Harold
Leviton, who built Little Neck-based
Leviton Manufacturing Co. into a global leader in electrical components, died Saturday at his home in Hewlett Harbor, his family said.
Leviton, who built Little Neck-based
Leviton Manufacturing Co. into a global leader in electrical components, died Saturday at his home in Hewlett Harbor, his family said.
Leviton, who was active in community and philanthropic groups, was 90.
"I am deeply saddened that our industry has lost one of its icons," said company president Donald Hendler,
Leviton's son-in-law, in a message on the company's Web site.
"All of us at
Leviton will deeply miss him and are comforted by the legacy of market innovation, philanthropy and good will he has left us," the message says.
Leviton was born to immigrant parents in Brooklyn in 1917 and "from the time he could walk" spent weekends in the Greenpoint factory that housed the company his father, Isidor, founded in 1906, according to the company.
The company then made gas-lamp mantles and pull-chain fixtures for the
Edison lightbulb.
After receiving a business degree from the University of Miami in 1940,
Leviton worked in the company's stockroom and purchasing department. As director of personnel, he hired a diverse work force long before anti-discrimination laws were on the books.
In 1965, when his father died, he took over as president and chief executive.
Leviton Manufacturing, so dominant in the field of small electrical components that the company says some of its 25,000 products are "in most American households," recently announced plans to move its offices from Little Neck to Melville.
Leviton was on the board of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association since 1976, was chairman of its wiring device section and was an honorary member of its board of governors. He was a charter member of the
Electrical Safety Foundation International and vice chairman emeritus of the National
Electrical Safety Foundation.
His company said he was a benefactor, former president and former chairman of the United Jewish Y's of Long Island and a founder of Israel's Technion, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the
Leviton Industrial Arts Award, which is given to high school students in electrical trades.
In addition to serving as a trustee and deputy mayor of the Village of Hewlett Harbor, where he had lived since 1947,
Leviton was vice president of the board of the Woodmere Academy, chairman of the Appeals Board and vice chairman of the Recreational Committee of the Five Towns.
His many awards included the Anti-Defamation
Torch of Liberty and the
Wire and Cable Club of America's Charles D. Scott Distinguished Career Award.
Leviton was fond of making latch hook pillows and cork trays, which he often gave to employees and industry associates on special occasions, the company said.
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