Masonry Magazine June 1961 Page. 17

Words: Herman May, Hugh MacDonald, Philip Will, Edmund Purves, Harvey Field, Sidney Freedman, Willard Dikeman, J. Stein, Jim Neville
Masonry Magazine June 1961 Page. 17

Masonry Magazine June 1961 Page. 17
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OPLE & EVENTS
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ate to the Masonry Industry in the issue. Philip Will, Jr., president of the American Institute of Architects, has been named an honorary fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. New officers for the Chicago Chapter, CSI, Carlisle Schultz, president; Robert Burkhardt, 1st vice pres.; Emil Moro, 2nd vice pres.; Harold Ericsson, treasurer; and William Skoglund, secretary.

The 4th Biennial Middle Atlantic States Apprenticeship & Training Conference will be held in Baltimore, Md. 25-28. Headquarters for the event will be the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Edmund R. Purves, consulting director of the American Institute of Architects, received the Albert Stuart Fitzpatrick Memorial Award made annually to the person selected for his individual contribution to the unification of the building industry. The award was made at the annual luncheon of the Building Research Institute in Washington.

Harvey J. Field, Jr., has been named district engineer of the Portland Cement Association's Vancouver, B.C. district office. He succeeds L. T. Wiloughby, who has been transferred to the PCA headquarters in Chicago as senior staff assistant. Sidney Freedman has been named research engineer by the National Concrete Masonry Association, Washington, D. C.

Structural Clay Products Institute has named Willard W. Dikeman as architectural representative. Dikeman, formerly head of the Chicago office of the Facing Tile Institute, will work closely with architects in New York, Chicago and Detroit and will headquarter in the Chrysler Building, New York City. His background includes service as a field representative for the Architectural Terra Cotta Institute and association with building materials dealers and construction firms in the west.

J. Stewart Stein, Chicago, past president of the Construction Specifications Institute, will be investured as Fellow CSI at that group's annual convention May 22-24 in New York City. The CSI recently completed a repeat "Short Course in Masonry" as a follow-up to a highly successful presentation in March. The course was presented with the assistance of the Portland Cement Association and Structural Clay Products Institute.

A student's manual on masonry has been presented to Iowa State University Technical Institute students by Jim Neville, head of Region VI, SCPI. The manual is also being placed in a materials course at Omaha U. and has commitments from the U. of Nebraska Civil Engineering and Architectural departments.

Herman L. May, Houston, "made" the Houston Chronicle on the occasion of his election in Philadelphia as secretary of the MCAA. Rumor has it that Herman immediately went out and bought 100 copies of the issue bearing the tidings... Hugh MacDonald, former Chicagoan and director of Region 5, SCPI, is getting in some good "licks" for masonry as director of the Brick & Tile Institute of Ontario, Canada. In recent weeks Hugh has appeared as guest speaker before the Woodstock Home Builders Assn., Canada, has consulted with architects on dimensional co-ordination of brick, is overseeing an ambitions promotional program in the magazine "Canadian Architect," has spoken before the Toronto Real Estate Board, and was responsible for a 1,500-word article about the Institute in a recent issue of the Toronto Daily Star.


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