Jennison Station Dedication Planned - 1945

New Power Plant to Be Dedicated Dec. 13th

Named in Honor of R.D. Jennison, Pres. of N.Y.S. Elec. & Gas Corp.

Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 6, 1945

 

The New York State Electric & Gas Corporation's new 44,000 horsepower generating plant at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] will be dedicated as Jennison Station Thursday, Dec. 13.  The station has been named in honor of Ralph D. Jennison, president of the company.

 

 

A bronze tablet, installed in the entrance to the station, carries this inscription:  "Jennison Station, named by his associates in honor of Ralph D. Jennison, president of this corporation, through whose vision and leadership this plant was built to serve the people of this region and our country in time of war and peace.  New York State Electric & Gas Corporation.  1945"

 

Attendants at the dedication will be by invitation only but on Friday, Dec. 14, an open house will be held at the station from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

 

Mr. Jennison began a lifetime of service in the electric and gas utility field in 1908 as a graduate of the engineering department of Michigan University.  Following several years with companies in the Middle West, he served for a long period in an operating and executive capacity with the General Gas & Electric Corporation, of which the former Binghamton, Light, Heat & Power Company was a part.  Subsequently he became president of the Metropolitan Edison Company, Reading, Pa., and the Utility Management Corporation, New York City.  He resigned as president of the two companies to become president of the New York State Electric & Gas Corporation on Jan. 1, 1941. 

 

The Jennison Station is a part of an extensive program of new construction initiated under Mr. Jennison's direction soon after he became president of the company, and carried on despite numerous handicaps during the wartime period.  In less than four years, the expansion program includes enlargement of the company's Greenridge Station at Dresden and Westover Station, additions to the transmission system and substations, and extension of electric service to more than 10,500 farms.