Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987 Page: 81
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Marcello:
Van Nostrand:
Marcello:
Van Nostrand:You can't go through a hundred pages of a very complicated
refining project and absorb it all, but you can sit down with
them and see why they need it and that it's going to be a
good thing. It has smoothed out a lot of the humps in the
road.
I should have done this earlier, but I'll do it now. I'm
going to throw out some names of some Japanese executives
to you, and just respond however you wish in terms of describ-
ing them and so on. Mr. Jochi of Koa.
President and ultimate chairman. One of my favorites.
He was a very taciturn man with an engineering background.
He didn't have too much to say, but when he talked he
made a lot of sense. He was a great Koa man. I mean by
that that there were no interests that he had that were more
important than Koa. He was dedicated. He was one of the
co-founders of the company, incidentally, and he was very
dedicated to the people and very popular with them. He had
a sort of withdrawn personality; he was not at all extroverted.
He was a very close friend of Shun's. He and Shun, I know,
admired each other greatly. He had a delightful wife--very
beautiful, very sensible, charming. They made big contribu-
tions to the operation.
Mr. Horikoshi of Tokyo Tanker Company.
Horikoshi was one of the Nippon executives coming up in
the hierarchy that, I guess, presented some problems to
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Van Nostrand, Stephen E. Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987, book, April 20, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306889/m1/83/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.