Masonry Magazine April 2000 Page. 51
MCAA
1999 2000
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February 8-10 Las Vegas, Nevada
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Serving Industry
MCAA's "Who's Who In Masonry" is the official membership directory of the association. It lists members both regionally as well as by alphabetical order. It's used to promote members to construction customers.
Architects' Masonry Symposium
MCAA's Architect Masonry Symposium was designed to imerse architects in a three-day program promoting the benefits and features of designing with masonry.
MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
MCAA Resource Catalog
The Most Direct Route to success
MCAA's marketing committee expanded the associations Resource Catalog and distributed it to over 15,000 mason contractors.
the Masonry Industry Council. I am as equally pleased MCAA member and past president Richard Felice has been selected as Chairman of the MIC.
The Next Fifty Years
Leading is never easy. Leadership requires facing tough issues and never shying away from fighting the right fight. Leadership requires having principles and keeping to those principles when others would have you abandon them for the sake of a hollow peace or shallow unity. The MCAA has stood for principles for decades. At times, we placed our principles on the back shelf for what we believed was the "good of the cause". But the only good that came from the MCAA not following our guiding principles of fighting for the rights of all mason contractors was an industry that remained splintered and aimless. Without a strong mason contractor organization acting as the conscience and leader of the masonry industry, other competing construction methods captured once dominant masonry markets. Thankfully today, lead by a principled group of a strong officer core and motivated by our guiding principles, the MCAA has stepped forward to regain masonry's dominance in the construction industry. Our fight will not be easy. Many in our industry do not believe that it is the contractors place to lead. Many doubt the ability of the MCAA, its elected Board, and staff to offer the vision to lead. Still many do not believe the MCAA has the will to sustain a fight to once again make masonry the dominant construction material in America today. While many doubted our ability to put together a win-
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