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West Des Moines Express (Newspaper) - June 7, 1985, West Des Moines, Iowa West Des Moines June 3 Greyhound glad to be here About 400 people looked on as Iowa Governor Terry Branstad cut the ribbon to the million office building for Greyhounds accounting center in West Des Moines West Des Moines Mayor George Fred Greyhound and Dave vice president and head of the center look West Des Moines Mayor Mills cited the Greyhound opening of its accounting offices at 49th and University as the greatest experience of bis 12 years serving West Des A 1931 Mack complete with roomy mohair seats and elegant side curtains on its was on display at the dedication in a look back at its By John Morrissey Business Record Little more than a year after it selected an architect to design the Greyhound Lines the transportation services subsidiary of the Greyhound dedicated its national accounting center in West Des Moines last The square foot building is not yet but already houses about 400 Greyhound officials expect the million facility to be completed and fully occupied by July The new center houses all of the companys intercity bus line accounting ticket sales to money were previously divided among offices in San Francisco and Greyhound Lines employs workers in the Canada and providing intercity passenger and package transportation service to The data processing equipment is directly connected to the companys Phoenix and Imants Dave a Greyhound accounting vice is manager of the a graduate of San Francisco State joined Greyhound in 1978 as an auditor in the San Francisco accounting From 1979 to he served as controller of the companys bus lines subsidiary in Saudi He to Des Moines from Greyhounds Phoenix headquarters last November to oversee completion of the new About onefourth of the local Greyhound workforce has transferred to West Des Moines from the other three said company spokesman Herb The balance of the 900 person workforce has been recruited from the central Iowa The company has made hiring commitments for all but about 30 David The remaining all in the data processing vacant because the company uses a particular brand of data processing equipment that features a keyboard arrangement different from all Existing company personnel are currently being retrained to operate the he Greyhound officials have said that one of the prime influencing their decision to locate in Iowa was the availability of the states innovative job training But that training program was preceded by a massive inhouse David When you have an office running for 20 or 30 you kind of expect things to get David But in operating for the company officials discovered gaps in the companys training with some job functions Greyhound personnel prepared about 800 manuals for use in the training David The first accounting departments occupied the building May Construction has been staged to complete work in four David The remainder of the companys Des Moines currently housed in the Century Building at 2700 Westown is scheduled to move into the center by The other departments will be occupied as workers complete their he From page 1 accounting functions of all Greyhound Lines in the United but also for business done by the bus line in 68 countries around the Dunikoski also indicated that once the system is functioning Greyhound may do the accounting functions for other bus Why did West Des Moines win against heavy competition from Oklahoma and Tennessee for the facility Believe Dunikoski told a crowd of several hundreds no one else could match what the state of Iowa did us I tell you this with all there really wasnt a second In an Dunikoski related an incident that happened the previous evening at a dinner for the Greyhound He sat at a table with six Greyhound people who had transferred from San They were no longer apprehensive about the move to West Des and they really fee the community has a lot to offer They were pleased with the warmth of something they had not said the Area Community College at Ankeny had performed an outstanding job in training employees for I have a son who teaches at the university so I know there is a lot of red tape and lowans should be proud of the community college and the way the staff responded to It was IS THIS THE YEAR FOR THAT PORTRAIT BY waiting for the The dedication of the Greyhound Building in West Des Moines was the scene of tired feet Standing directly behind this one would not have known her Photo by Karen Its Time Again For Our Annual SPRING SPECIAL For The Finest Portrait Youve Ever Had Gal 2239770

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