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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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| 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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| 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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| Keaton Myrick (View Website) |
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| Keaton Myrick is an American watchmaker in the truest sense of the title. Keaton was born and raised in Oregon and was taught watchmaking in the horologically rich Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Before beginning his watchmaking education he worked for MKII Watch Company, gaining invaluable experience in the industry. Keaton then attended the Lititz Watch Technicum, graduating in 2007, gaining his WOSTEP certification, AWCI certification and the coveted LWT Diploma. Keaton learned the art of traditional watchmaking and was instrumental in helping his class build a precision pendulum clock as a class project rarely seen in watchmaking schools today. Upon graduation, Keaton worked for Rolex USA in one of its service centers learning from industry leaders how to service some of the world’s finest timepieces. Today he works from his workshop in Sisters, Oregon making fine watches by hand, one at a time. |
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