Masonry Magazine April 1969 Page. 27
Buncher Cleveland Champion
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lives with his wife, Carol, at 6715 Charles Avenue in Parma, Ohio.
Twenty-six Cleveland apprentices entered the Cleveland contest; and twenty-one apprentices from 17 various locals throughout the state were represented in the state finals.
Al Azolino, chairman of the Bricklayers' Joint Apprenticeship Committee, made the award presentations along with Sam Immormino of A. Immormino & Son, representing the Mason Contractors Association of Cleveland and the Building Trades Employers' Association.
The judges in the state contest finals were Harold Kuhfeld, coordinator of Apprenticeship Training at Max S. Hayes Vocational School; Clarence Kurlinski, business agent, Bricklayers' Local No. 6, Canton, Ohio; Carl Monk, bricklayer apprentice instructor, Sandusky, Ohio.
The Cleveland Finals were judged by Anthony Gattozzi, chief architect, City of Cleveland; Earl Shobe, architect, Cleveland Board of Education; Don Spencer, architects' representative, Ward and Schneider; Don Thiele, president, Bricklayers' Local No. 5; Tom Davis, secretary-treasurer, Ohio State Conference of Bricklayers; and Archie Stephen, financial secretary, Bricklayers Local No. 5.
Co-sponsors of the contest and exhibit were Bricklayers Local No. 5, the Medusa Portland Cement Company, Ohio State Conference of Bricklayers, Mason Contractors' Association, an affiliate of the Building Trades Employers' Association, Building Laborers' Local No. 310, The Cleveland Board of Education, and local hard material dealers.
The bricklayer apprentice contest was only one of the attractions at the masonry booth at Cleveland's annual Home & Flower Show. A wide variety of attractive uses of brick walls, piers, and forms were seen by the show spectators.
Moscow
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ment." The city has gained immensely in sophistication, though, Mr. Ketchum observed.
He notes that the Soviet government since its takeover 50 years ago has carefully preserved, restored and developed all the cultural elements gained from Czarist days, including every aspect of native architecture from medieval to modern times.
C/M AND GLASS BLOCK TASTEFULLY COMBINED
Glass blocks at home in El Cerrito, Calif., were inset four inches to provide additional shade during periods of strong sunlight. Concrete biock masonry and giass blocks have been tastefully combined in a new home built for privacy at El Cerrito, Calif.
Designed by architect John Rolf Hattam, the home commands a panoramic view of San Francisco bay. But nearby homes would have made privacy impossible if conventional windows had been used.
Mr. Hattam achieved his objective of privacy and high interior light levels by extensive use of Pittsburgh Corning Vue blocks set into concrete block masonry.
The walls are grey-brown standard concrete block, filled with grout, and standard-shape protruding blocks, interspersed with glass blocks. Both sides of the block were left in their natural state and color. Response from prospective buyers has been favorable, according to the architect. "What surprised a number of people is that concrete block masonry can generate such a warm and pleasant response, Mr. Hattam said.