Actually, the JELD-WEN Wendts are from Iowa originally. They moved out to Oregon and started the business 50+ years ago. One of the sons, who is a contractor, is named Mark. You're in good company, though, as Dick Wendt was one of the 400 wealthiest men in the US before he died. ?You'd never have known it though. I recall he drove an old Jeep Cherokee with a dent in the fender for way too many years.
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From: Mark wendt.mark@... [TekScopes]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 08:32
To: TekScopes@...
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Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Movie on Tek's early days, last link was corrupted
On 03/28/2016 09:06 PM, John Clark johnclark05@... [TekScopes]
wrote:
Thanks for the link! I enjoyed watching that. I grew up on the Oregon coast, graduating HS in 1986, and lived there most of my life until recently moving out east. I never had even heard of Tektronix until acquiring my dad's 475 last spring. I work for another large, privately-held (though, probably not for much longer) long-time Oregon company, JELD-WEN Windows and Doors. I had never heard of them either until I landed a corporate pilot job with them back in 1998. Dick Wendt, founder of the company, was the Howard Vollum of JELD-WEN and was very much like Vollum. Wendt died in 2010 and JELD-WEN was bought by private equity in 2011 and is now based in Charlotte, NC. It's hard to watch the same kind of family atmosphere it used to be change to the "quarterly earnings for stockholders" atmosphere, as the Tek piece describes.
Nothing is constant but change. The Camelots grow but never stay.
John
Dang. Another Wendt family out there. I know of the families in
upstate NY where I grew up, in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and a
few that lived in California. Now some more in the Pacific NW.
Mark Wendt
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