Masonry Magazine December 1965 Page. 12
Si Zentner and His Orchestra To Be Featured At MCAA Banquet
Si Zentner and his Orchestra will be featured at the MCAA Annual Banquet to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Park Hotel, Tuesday evening, February 22, according to Convention Chairman William Picco.
The Si Zentner band will be the same band that has made the records that have won numerous awards and has had several hit records, one "Up A Lazy River" that was a full-fledge smash. Si has also copped two Grammy Awards bestowed by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, one for the "Best Performance by an Orchestra for Dancing" and the other for an album called "Great Bands With Great Voices.
Through the 1940's Si wore the title "sideman" proudly. He worked with Les Brown, Harry James, and Jimmy Dorsey, then free-lanced and went into the crack studio orchestra at MGM, where he remained for nine years. He left to start his own band.
WASHINGTON, D.C. MCAA CHAPTER HONORS ITS PAST PRESIDENTS
Dan Trout, second from left, President of the Mason Contractors Association of the District of Columbia, presents Omega self-winding calendar wrist watches to all living Post Presidents of that Chapter. Receiving watches are: (1. to r.) William Picco, Trout, Anthony Izzo, and Paul Ponton. Unique feature of the watches is that the inscription of the presentation has been placed on the face of the watches.
Attending the watch presentation ceremony for the past Presidents of the Washington, D. C. Chapter were these members of the Association.
Reorganization Complete
An extensive reorganization has just been completed by Stone, Marraccini and Patterson, San Francisco architectural firm, which to date has been responsible for more than 800 major design assignments in the U. S. and over seas.
The reorganization, announced by President Silvio P Marraccini, was based on a step unusual for architectural firms; a lengthy "in-house" survey of the group's objectives, functions and staff operations, carried out bby Arrthu Young & Co., a leading business management consulting firm.
In contrast with its early days, Stone, Marraccini ane Patterson today is one of the nation's largest and mos successful group of arrchitects, with nearly 100 employe working on such multi-million dollar design efforts as th unique new $20,,000,000 U. S. Post Office at Oakland a new 650 bed, $13,500,000 Navy Hospital, also at Oakland, the new 10 floor, 550 bed Letterman Army Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio, the proposed Langle Porter Psychiatric Clinic and a Tropical Medical Cente in American Samoa.
"After review by our associates and key personnel of the survey made for us by Young's staff," Marraccini explained, "our Board of Directors has adopted many of it recommendations, including an organization plan which provides a sound basis for our continued growth, development and expansion of our services to our clients."
S-M-P will work under a functional plan of organization with project management teams responsible for each architectural design assignment.
"This plan," Marraccini announced, "will logically identify and segregate the services and functions of our group into separate departments. Corporate directors and key personnel will be assigned essential roles in administration of these separate departments."
Each project management team will be responsible for all details of each indiidual project. Each team member will haev responsibilities and authority so assigned as te assure coordinated controls.