Conlin Raising Funds for a Very Special Lady

While face lifts are a little out of his line, William Conlin has a special interest in providing one for a certain lady in New York. When Conlin, president of CalComp in Anaheim, is not guiding the fast-growing computer graphics systems company, he is out trying to raise $5 million to help restore the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. His fund-raising efforts on behalf of the foundation chaired by Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca focus on high-technology companies throughout the West, especially in Orange County. Conlin, 50, said he was attracted to the restoration project after one of CalComp’s computer-aided design and drafting systems was used by a group of New York architects to study the statue’s structural weaknesses.

The firm of Swanke Hayden Connell used a CalComp computer system to create an accurate, three-dimensional rendering of the statue. The rendering was also used to develop a scale model for a detailed engineering study.

Conlin, who joined CalComp two years ago after 23 years with Burroughs Corp., is working with business leaders to encourage companywide contributions to the statue’s restoration. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is trying to raise $250 million in the next two years--$25 million of it on the West Coast.

CalComp, a subsidiary of Nashua, N.H.-based Sanders Associates Inc., had annual sales of $255 million in fiscal 1984. Conlin also serves as a senior vice president of Sanders.