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| C.E. (Ed) Beacham
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Ed Beacham grew up in Southern
Oregon graduating from Eagle Point High School in 1966. He served
in the US Air Force from 1966 to 1970, during the Viet Nam Conflict
being stationed at Vandenberg AFB in Santa Maria CA where he
met and married the lovely Kathleen Mae DeKorte. He attended
Oregon State University, graduating in 1973 with a BA. Degree
in Industrial Arts. He was also a member of Epsilon Pi Tau,
an honorary fraternity of the top 10% of the nations Industrial
Arts students. From 1974 to 1978 Ed and Kathi began volunteer
work as youth ministers at Northwest Hills Baptist Church in
Corvallis, all the while running a thriving clock repair business
from their home. In 1978 they moved from Corvallis to Sisters
and opened Beacham’s Clock Co, Inc. In 1978 Ed joined
the Sisters Volunteer Fire Department, and served as department
chaplain and paramedic, retiring in 2003. He has also volunteered
since 1980 as the pastor of the Chapel in the Pines in the near
by community of Camp Sherman, and is currently Pastor Emeritus
with the church. Their “other” hobbies include rock
climbing, hiking, camping, boating and travel, especially Hawaii
where they love snorkeling in the tropical waters of the Islands.
They also enjoy their ranch outside of Sisters where they raise
and train registered miniature donkeys.
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| Kathi Beacham |
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Kathi, Ed's loyal
and faithful companion of 34 years, has been working along side
of Ed in running their retail shop and doing the clock repair.
As the business has grown, Kathi trained a clock technician,
Duaine B. Houston, to do the shop's repair work. Now she has
more time to focus on buying and selling inventory, setting
up the displays, handling the shipping and receiving, keeping
the books, paying the bills, balancing the check books, dealing
with the customers, quoting the repair prices, giving appraisals
on Antique Clocks, cleaning the store inside and out, washing
windows and dishes, cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner, all
this and she still makes Ed feel like he is the most important
person in the world.
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| Duaine Houston |
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Duaine Houston,
47, (dba Houston’s Woodworking & Clock Repair, Inc.)
comes from a construction background where he was a foreman
building high quality homes and commercial buildings. Duaine
and his wife Ellen have 2 young sons David and Ryan who both
have expressed an interest in learning the trade. We have known
Duaine for over 25 years and he is like a little brother to
us. In early 1992 Duaine began apprenticing with Kathi learning
clock repair. We trained him and set him up in his own business.
Duaine also does an extensive amount of woodworking, building
elaborate church furniture in his well-equipped wood shop. At
the 2002 National NAWCC Convention, Duaine entered his first
clock in the Craft Competition. It was a replica of a Lenzkirch
Grandmother clock, a large framed sweep second Vienna movement
with mercury styled pendulum. He made both movement and case
– winning a gold medal for his efforts. This coming year,
Duaine is joining Ed in producing a signature product line of
high-grade clocks for sale in the store. Duaine’s hobbies
are hunting, fishing, camping and spending quality time with
his family.
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| Gregory Graham
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Dr. Gregory Graham
is an emeritus professor in manufacturing technology, from California
State University Los Angeles. He lives in Yucca Valley in Southern
California with his lovely wife Sarann. Greg has brought considerable
resources and valuable technology to our manufacturing process,
even helping us acquire our machinery and then making it all
work. Sharing his extensive experience in teaching CNC programming
and machining operations allowed us to computerize our clock
making and repair operations. An avid clock collector for more
than fifteen years and NAWCC member, Dr. Graham became interested
in making and designing clocks after a visit to our store in
Sisters. Our close ties, friendship and continuing exchange
of technology, as been an asset and interest to all of us. Greg’s
hobbies in retirement are collecting and restoration of cars
along with doing clock repair. He is very talented and loves
to design clock works. He is currently working on a Gravity
Escapement. We shall be forever indebted to Greg for his assistance
to us.
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| Lindsay Simmons
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Dr. M. Lindsay Simmons,
PhD, 70, (dba M.L. Simmons) was a mathematics professor at Humboldt
State University, retiring in 1991. He served in the USAF from
1955-57 as a 2nd Lieutenant. He flew the T-33 Jet and worked
in guided missile research. Lindsay and his wife Jane have 3
sons and a daughter. He has been very valuable to us assisting
in the mathematics of gear train calculations. Lindsay has his
own wood shop where he makes clock cases and furniture. He has
background experiences in retailing running several successful
businesses from food distribution to high quality exterior and
interior wood finishes imported from Europe. Some of his other
experiences included rebuilding pipe organs. He is also musically
inclined, traveling extensively singing in choral groups in
the massive cathedrals of Europe. He has been with us for 8
years as an associate learning clock repair, case making, and
fine tuning his woodworking skills. He is developing a line
of reproduction Old World Barometers and Thermometers. Lindsay
volunteers as the tour guide for our facility. He is a great
communicator and very good with people, a real asset to our
store. Lindsay’s hobbies are ham radio and Airstream traveling
around the USA
HAM Radio Call Sign: KD6EB
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| Reed Strickland |
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Reed Strickland,
50, (dba Reed Strickland Clock Repair) was raised in Canada,
grew up in a farming environment where he developed a keen interest
in all things mechanical. Largely self taught, he has an intuitive
sense of how things work and why they don’t. He comes
from a wide background, being a commercial fisherman, a welder,
and a pipe fitter in the oil fields. He also worked in a copper
mine. In 1979 he began repairing clocks owning the Chime and
Time Clock Shop in Bend, Oregon. Although being competitors,
we developed a deep respect and admiration for his horological
abilities. In August of 2004 Reed moved his repair practice
to our store in Sisters. Reed’s family includes a son
and daughter. His hobbies are serious snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor
and riding any one of his 5 motor cycles.
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| Mike Hanson |
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Mike Hanson, 14,
is a student at Obsidian Middle School in Redmond, Ore. He started
as an apprentice at age 11 and has been with us now for 3 years
learning basic clock repair and fundamental wood working. He
will be required to make an entire clock including the movement
and case to complete his apprenticeship program. The clock will
then be entered into the NAWCC craft competition. Due largely
to his extensive farming and ranching background, he has an
intuitive grasp of mechanics, power transmission and motors.
He is already an accomplished welder. His hobbies include a
4H steer project every year, cross country and track, hunting
and fishing, but especially making things. We can't call him
Mikey anymore because he is taller than we are.
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