The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-19
KiLbourn NeuO President
 OfModern Home Utilities
Complete Control of c. E. Agency Passes Into
 Hands of New Group

Announcement was made today that complete control of Modern Home Utilities, Inc, General EIec- tric distributors for the state of Con- necticut, had passed into the hands Of . group headed by Orrin P. kil- bourn of West SiFnsbury, Conn.
 Founded In 1027 by interests lo. cated in Waterbury, this corpora. ton has done an outstanding job in the field of electric home appliances. It has retail stores located in Hart ! ford, Waterbury, New Haven, New London and Middletown, together with dealers in practically every other city in this state.
 In accepting the responsibility of his association with General Elec- trio, Mr. Kilbourn declared, "The electrical industry is not only . new end fascinating field for me, but it is also . great thrill to be back in business in my home stateJ Con-
 aecticut."
 Colonial Ancestry
 Mir. Kilbourn's associations with Connecticut run deep, for he traces his ancestors back three hundred years to the earliest settlers of this state. Mfr. Kilboura, himself, was c native of Hartford, later graduating from Yale in the class of 1914.
 The new organization retains the corporate name of the former dis. tributorship, Modern Home Utili- ties, Inc. MT. Kilbour1i has become the president, J. D. Nelly of Water. bury, the former general manager, becomes vice.president, and R. Barry Greene, secretAry-treasurer. MT. Kilbourn brings with him 22 years of broad experience in the automotive field and the advertising profession. After graduation from college he joined the fast-growing Willys- Oveland organization. Except for the period in which he saw active service in France as Captain-Addu- tant and Operations Officer of the 2ist Field Artillery, 9th, Division, he continued with this organization be. coming assistant general sales InaIls ager and serving in this capacity uI1s til 1928. At this time the equally progressive field of advertising at. tracted him and ile brought his wealth of automotive experience to the firm of J. Walter Thompson Company. From this point on MT. Kiibourn alternated between the written sales technique of the ad. vertiging field and the spoken word of Che direct selling field.
 Organizes Agency
 m 1880 he became distributor Tor Desoto cars for New York city, and two years later he became part. neg in an advertising agency, J. Stirling Qetchell, Inc, formed to serve the DeSoto Motor Corporation.
 Until Q year ago Mir. Kilbourn was tho Detroit resident partner of the agency, which later secured the ad- vortising account of Plymouth cars and the Socony.V .Vocuufh oil Con1- pany. Tn all these busy years MT. Kilbourn has found time to develop an orchard and orse-breeding farm at West siinsbury, Conn.
 Barry Greene, new treasurer of Modern Home Utilities, Inc, 1s Q graduate of Harvard and the Har- yard School of Business. He TO. signed from an executive position with Electromagnetic to join MT. ISilbourn in their new venture.
 q am happy to be Identified with an industry which has done 50 much to boost America out Of the depression" MT. Kilhourn declared. "And, of course, 1t Is even more of g pleasure to be identified with Gen. eral Electric, the leader in this leads ing industry"