Masonry Magazine April 1980 Page. 28
Meet MCAA's New...
VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
Bill Dentinger has to be an All-American in promoting masonry. He once composed and paid for an advertisement in the Milwaukee Sentinel offering a "special on sports arenas-10% off." Unfortunately he had no takers, but his spirit remains undiminished.
Bill graduated from Marquette University High School in 1957, and from the U.S. Navy four years later. From 1961 through May, 1975 he was a stockholder and secretary/treasurer of Superior Masonry Builders, Inc. in Milwaukee. In June, 1975 he formed his own company. Bill Dentinger, Inc., doing commercial, industrial and institutional masonry subcontracting in the seven-county metropolitan Milwaukee area.
Bill's interest and direct involvement in industry affairs began in 1964. Locally he has served as an officer and director of the Mason Contractors Association of Milwaukee three times and is a founding director of the Masonry Institute of Wisconsin.
He is a director of the Allied Construction Employers Association, a federation of 18 industry trade associations in Milwaukee, chairing and serving on various committees including chairmanship of the Laborer Bargaining Committee. He is a trustee of the Milwaukee Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund and chairman of its Eligibility Committee.
Nationally Bill has served the Mason Contractors Association of America on various committees since the mid-sixties, and was named Outstanding Committee please turn to page 35
DONALD O. LEONARD
Don Leonard is president of Don Leonard Brick Contracting Co., St. Ann, Mo., a firm established in 1959. Following completion of his schooling in St. Louis, he spent four years as a bricklayer apprentice and two years in the U.S. Army.
Don has served as secretary, vice president and president of the Mason Contractors Association of St. Louis. He is presently a member of the board of directors of the PRIDE organization of St. Louis and a member of the Arbitration Board of the Mason Contractors Association of St. Louis.
Don also is a trustee of the Masonry Institute of St. Louis, the Bricklayers Pension and Welfare Funds of Missouri, the Missouri Apprentice and Training Trust, and the Mason Tenders Vacation and Promotion Program of St. Louis.
With the MCAA, Don has been Missouri state chairman, regional vice president and secretary, prior to his election as vice president. In committee work he has been chairman of the Insurance Committee and a member of the Apprenticeship (Manpower) Committee.
Don and his wife, Ruth, have four children: Donald J.. a member of Don's firm; Kathryn and Christine, both married, and Steven, a high school student.