Masonry Magazine May 1961 Page. 5
People & Events
Oscar Person, MCA member, Burlingame, Calif., was featured as guest speaker before a recent meeting of the Arizona Masonry Guild in Phoenix. He discussed the newly-developed technique of using brick panels for reinforced brick masonry.
Carroll Strohm, Jr., president of Nashville Breeko Block Co., is the president of the new Tennessee Concrete Masonry Association. This association was organized last month. Strohm is a former president of National Concrete Masonry Association.
The Cincinnati office of the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, has moved office to the 5th floor, Coney Island Building, 205 East 6th St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Phone Dunbar 1-2200, Ext. 317.
Edward J. Flickinger has been named vice president and member of the board of Indiana Cap & Set Co. (Emco), Franklin Park, manufacturer of fasteners and related products.
Charles C. Danna, Sr., and Turner Smith, both of the Houston MCA, are official assistant professors at the University of Houston. The two announced a request to the association to use university for assistance in the school's bricklaying course and have devoted several hours to date instructing students in the art of bricklaying.
The Houston chapter is placing the burden of membership where it counts - on the members, themselves and is confident the system will work. Cards bearing names of prospective members are passed out to MCA members during regular meetings. All receiving cards are expected to bring a representative of the firm indicated to the next meeting. Sounds like a good idea.
Mr. Lucas, representative of AA Wire Products Co., who has been a leader of such developments as Economy-Lok and other innovations in reinforcement for masonry walls, discussed crack control before a recent meeting of the Milwaukee chapter, Construction Specifications Institute.
Bert W. Harrington, San Francisco, discussed "High Lift Grouting Methods" before a recent meeting of architects and engineers in Phoenix. This is the method in which Oscar Person, MCA member of Burlingame, Calif., had a big hand in developing. It uses brick walls as concrete forms.
Miam A. Blaser of the Arizona Masonry Guild in Phoenix, is the envy of his colleagues. Working for him are James Stockton, apprentice who placed second in the national contest last month in Detroit, and Don Blazer, who ranked high in Arizona apprentice competitions.
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The Publications Committee of the Mason Contractors Association of America has met and discussed all policies in conjunction with the publication and printing of MASONRY.
The Committee is in complete agreement that MASONRY shall be devoted exclusively to all products, equipment and services in the masonry field.
It will be the endeavor of this publication to publish stories which will assist the mason contractor in his daily operating procedures and to provide him with a source of information on new methods and systems being developed by various manufacturers and producers.
The Committee welcomes comments and criticisms on improving the editorial content of this magazine.
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The policy which guides each issue of MASONRY is that policy which best serves the interests of the Masonry Industry.
Adopted by Publications Committee: Pat Filippi, Les Dietrich, Reno Fabbri, Joseph Szabo, Robert Tubesing, Stanley Child, Henry Nemec, Oscar Person, Anthony Perri.
Approved by Executive Board, April 29, 1961, Las Vegas, Nev.
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