Masonry Magazine March 1967 Page. 38

Words: Charles Velardo, Dan Berich, Jim Snyder, William Roark, James Gross, C. Garton, Richard Otterson, Harry Morstead, Donald Frants, Frank Moratscheck, Ole Knudsen, Malcolm Allen, Ronald Ryner, Jim Kollegger, Tom Drews, George Stalle, Robert Howard, William Lederer, John Washatka
Masonry Magazine March 1967 Page. 38

Masonry Magazine March 1967 Page. 38
MCAA-SCPI All-Weather Committee Meeting

Mason Contractors from various sections of the United States and Canada met with officials of Structural Clay Products Institute to discuss problems connected with All-Weather Construction. Here Charles Velardo, Boston, Mass., center, explains various ways and means of enclosing structures. At left is Dan Berich, Mason Contractor for the Denver Park Mayfair Apartments, and at right is William Roark, SCPI, Mason Relations Director.

Harry Morstead, Calgary, Alberto, Canada, third from left, discusses some of the problems Mason Contractors face and the interest that the Canadian Government takes in promoting and encouraging winter work for the Masonry Industry. From left are Donald Frants of Minneapolis, James G. Gross, SCPI Director of Engineering, Morstead and SCPI Executive Director Richard W. Otterson. Not shown are are MCAA members Frank Moratscheck of Cincinati, Jim Snyder of Detroit, and Ole Knudsen of Calgary, Alberto. Other SCPI staff attending included Research Director Malcolm H. Allen who Chaired the discussion, Promotion Director Ronald S. Ryner, and Assistant Jim Kollegger, and Region 5 Director C. E. Garton.


COVER PHOTO


Products, Profit and Promotion

The new Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, Modern Gothic in treatment, the new compus creative centerpiece was designed to slip comfortably besides the older buildings at the 77-year-old all-girl college. This structure is a comfortable blending of brick, glass, and flying buttresses. Photo above shows the steeply pitched triangular gables in the Dana Fine Arts Building faced with lights of PPG Solargray plate glass.

(Photo courtesy PPG Products Magazine

Making last minute arrangements for the thirty-second Safway Steel Products Branch Manager's Conference are: (1. to r.) Tom Drews, Administrative Assistant; George Stalle, Vice President-Marketing; Robert Howard, Treasurer; William Lederer, Vice President-Branch and John Washatka, Manager-Customer Service. The three day meeting was conducted in Milwaukee and consisted of a round table discussion with the company's thirteen branch managers. Policy, Personnel, Products, Profit, and Product Promotions were among the items discussed. Many new products and improvements of existing equipment were shown. "We were impressed", said Mr. Lederer, "with the wealth of information these men contributed as a result of their close knowledge of the contractor's needs and how Safway can service them. Their ideas are what really drew the lines on our "Blueprint for Progress."

A bus driver is the only man who can, with impunity, tell a woman where to get off

A smart girl doesn't only want a dress to make her look slim, she also wants it to make men turn 'round.

One thing about a "bikini"-it's like a computer, saves a lot of guess work

MASONRY
March, 1967


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