Masonry Magazine August 1980 Page. 26
People & Events
J. E. "Jack" Deger has been appointed western division manager of W. R. Bonsal Co., following the firm's recent acquisition of a packaged cement products plant in City of Industry, Calif... Huntington/Pacific Ceramics, Inc. has promoted James C. Baynham to vice president-sales & marketing... MacLeod Howes Equipment Ltd., Woodbridge, Ont., has been appointed a distributor for Skytrak construction forklifts sold through Koehring Canada Ltd./Compaction & General Equipment Group. Mississauga, Ont.... William B. Moore, Jr., vice president, Reynolds Metals Co. and general manager of its Architectural & Building Products Division, has been elected to the board of directors of the Committee for a National Museum of the Building Arts.
Quoting the Rt. Rev. Kenneth Thompson, bishop of Sherwood, England: "The ideal hospital waiting room for expectant fathers is a 200-yard corridor with a bar at each end."
Rodger Poole has joined the design staff of Ferendino/Grafton/Spillis/ Candela, architects, engineers and planners based in Miami, Fla. Martin Schlessinger has been elected chairman of the board and Barton B. Wall, Jr. president of Herman Blum Companies, Inc., a multi-discipline engineering firm. In a further expansion of its marketing program in the U.S., the West German firm of Villeroy & Boch (U.S.A.), Inc. will open an office, showroom and warehouse for its ceramic tile products later this year in Anaheim, Calif... Charles J. Parise, associate and corporate consulting architect for Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc., Detroit, Mich., was named a 1980 Recipient of the Award of Merit by the American Society for Testing & Materials.
Ronald L. Cournia, national sales manager for construction equipment, Homelite Division of Textron, Inc., has been honored as "Boss of the Year" by the Oakbrook (III.) Chapter of the American Business Women's Association W. R. Bonsal Co., Lilesville, N.C., has appointed Kathy Rudolph district sales manager in Atlanta and Joann Navarro district sales manager for metropolitan Los Angeles... Martin Trotsky, president, Waco Scaffolding & Equipment Co., Denver, Colo., has been elected president of the Scaffold Industry Association.
Teen-ager getting his back-to-school haircut was overheard telling his barber: "Just a trim, please. Even it up a little around the shoulders."
Richard F. McAdoo has been appointed government relations director and manager of the Washington, D.C. branch office of the Construction Industry Manufacturers Association The Producers' Council has officially changed its name to the Construction Products Manufacturers Council and appointed Robert E. Hall president. Hall is vice president & general manager of Honeywell's Commercial Construction Division... G. L. Brusacoram Sales Co., Minneapolis, Minn., has become a manufacturer's representative for Patent Scaffolding Co.'s Gold Medal line of ladders.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless, said Goethe. It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous.
Wilmer Rogers, president of Rogers Masonry, Orange County, has been elected president of the Mason Contractors Association of Virginia Herbert L. Jacobson has been appointed West Coast regional sales manager and Todd R. Rohrer has been named Midwest regional sales manager for Buchtal-USA, Atlanta-based ceramic tile manufacturer .. Prof. Patrick J. Quinn, dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., is resigning his post effective September 3 so as to concentrate his efforts on new directions in architectural design and research.