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This man is obviously having too much fun at his job!! This is our fearless leader and
founder of the company, Ron Wickersham. When he's not engineering Alembic products, you'll find him reading and
learning about just about anything in the universe. He is also active in The Amateur Sky Survey. |
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Charles La Roche has been with us for over ten years. He is the demon of electronics purchasing. He gets the last column pricing from everybody. His is a difficult job at times. Many of our parts are not off the shelf items and must be custom ordered. Lead time on these custom parts can be as long as 20 weeks. Inventory control is a tricky business. You don't want too much of one thing, and not enough of another. And nobody wants to hear, "how did we run out of that?" Thank you Charles, for keeping it all together! |
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Tony Stoufer is our pickup man! He also installs and tests the electronics in many of the
rack mount units we manufacture. He's been very busy making music and released his
latest CD in March of 2001. In this vintage photo, Tony proudly displays his first guitar. |
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This is Robert Frates, a retired Coast Guard officer where he did search and rescue. For 23 years he
assembled guitar electronics with his wife, Mildred. They also made our rackmounted preamps. Grandpa Frates retired in
December 2004, and passed away on September 22, 2005. |
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This is Mildred Frates, known as Millie or Grandma. She has been working in electronics since she was 16.
She started at Cornel Dubiler in Massachusettes. She has also worked for Smith Kline Instruments and for Ampex in the late 60's. She
assembled guitar electronics for 27 years for Alembic. She is particularly proud
of the fact that her favorite performer's (Julio Iglesias) bassist has the electronics "she" made in his basses! Grandma retired in December 2004. |
