David G. Bohn, president of the Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corporation in Danbury, Connecticut, rose through a series of sales positions during the course of his career at the company, including stints as a inside sales representative, district sales manager, and vice president in charge of sales. When he first joined Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corporation in 1987, David G. Bohn took an inside sales position at the firm’s Danbury headquarters shortly after earning his bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
The third-oldest college in New York State, Hamilton College was established in 1793. It was designed as a school for the children of the Oneida tribe and of the white settlers who were migrating west from New England and north from New York City. The plan was approved by President George Washington, and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton agreed to be a trustee; he also permitted the use of his name. Baron von Steuben, the drillmaster of General Washington’s Continental Army, attended the founding ceremonies and laid the cornerstone. The school never completely achieved its purpose of assimilating Oneida youth into the new American culture, but it served as a resource for white settlers and was chartered in 1812 as Hamilton College. In 1865, a member of the class of 1815, its second graduating class, composed what was dubbed the half-century annalist letter. It was a reminiscence of life on campus, his classmates, and the college itself. The idea caught on and today is a revered tradition at the school. Where many colleges and university have official histories of the events that shaped their institutional lives, few have established such an intimate, personal record.
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AuthorDavid G. Bohn - Executive Involved in His Connecticut Community Archives
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