1989 Rolex President 18238 Day Date 18K Yellow Gold Champagne Dial Wristwatch with Box and Papers GREAT Story

When the cease fire was announced their squadron, along with the hospital ship Haven, and various minesweepers and destroyers entered Nagasaki Ko Sept. 11, 1945. They released several thousand prisoners of war who had been held captive in the area to mine coal. Removing these poor people who had nearly starved for many, many months left a lasting impression on Warren.

Warren was named Executive Vice President of Operations in December of 1968, President in 1974 and Chairman and CEO in 1975 — a position he held until his partial retirement in 1991. He then served as Chairman of the Executive Committee until May of 1996, remaining on the Albertson’s board until 1998.

During his long tenure with Albertson’s Warren was pleased to participate in the growth of the company from a small regional group of stores to a major factor in the food industry. At the time of his departure from Albertson’s, Wall Street considered ABS the sweetheart of the food chains due to great growth in sales and earnings and return to stockholders equity. These indicators were important to Joe Albertson, the stockholders, the ABS management, and to the Boise community. The credit for this successes was not attributed to any one person. The management and staff at all levels made this possible. Warren was very proud of the people that surrounded him, and he never failed to give them credit. Joe started it all and Warren viewed himself as just “a very good maintenance man.”

I've abbreviated the long and incredible life of him, but I hope you've gotten the gist.