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1954–1966 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY) · THE SUCCESSION RUNS TO THE END, AS THE ROW REQUIRES
The succession is printed complete, because a flagship's line that stops mid-century fails the leg. After Vance: James Nance, president of the new Studebaker-Packard company from its birth on 1 October 1954, retiring when Curtis-Wright's three-year management contract began on 31 October 1956. Harold Churchill, elected Studebaker president 31 October 1956, demoted 1 February 1961. Sherwood Egbert, president from 1 February 1961, resigned 25 November 1963 — the chief under whom the South Bend plant stopped automobile production on 20 December 1963. Byers Burlingame, appointed president 25 November 1963, served "until the end of Automotive production in March 5th, 1966" (the roll's date; the company record dates the last Hamilton, Ontario car's assembly to 17 March 1966 — both print, the roll's for the presidency's end and the company's for the last car). Studebaker Corporation continued profitably for some years on its industrial divisions after the cars ended; when Burlingame's presidency itself finished, the roll states plainly, is unknown — an unfinished line, printed unfinished inside a completed succession. Against this, Osceola's own flagship — the Baugo mill seat — ends the other way, and the contrast is the town's article in one sentence: its chief succession stops with an unnamed nephew conducting the mill in 1880 (Chapman) and the gazetteers' last mill in 1884, no chiefs named to a close, because a family mill has heirs, not presidents.
Sources: Studebaker Presidents roll (SDC) — Nance, Churchill, Egbert, Burlingame, with dates as above and the roll's own admission on Burlingame's end. Studebaker company record — South Bend automobile production ended 20 December 1963; last car, Hamilton, 17 March 1966. Banked Businesses (the mill line's unnamed nephew, 1880; last mill, 1884).