Masonry Magazine January 1972 Page. 13
Mason Contractor News...
SCPI Elects Richards
Charles T. Richards of Richards Brick Co. has been elected president of the Structural Clay Products Institute for 1972 at the group's annual convention at the Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
Others elected were: William S. Jones, Boren Clay Products Co., vice president, and Joseph H. Patrick, Southern Brick Co., treasurer. Richard W. Otterson and Charles N. Farley will continue to serve in their respective posts of executive director and corporation secretary.
People & Events...
New England Carbide Tool Co., Inc., Peabody, Mass., has announced the appointment of Edward A. Fuller to the position of midwestern regional sales manager. Howard A. Stevens has been promoted to general sales manager and Douglas L. Williams to director of operations at White Construction Equipment, Northfield, Ill. Three executive appointments have been made by Pittsburgh Corning Corp. Calvin H. Smedley has been named manager of business development for architectural glass products; Howard G. Jones has been appointed manager of national accounts/construction products, and Lee P. Hauser is the new sales operations manager.
Construction Products Division of W. R. Grace & Co., Cambridge, Mass., also has filled three executive posts: James Cintani is manager of architectural products and J. S. "Stan" Titus becomes manager of distribution products. Both men are located in the (Continued on page 36)
Results of 1st IMI Campaign Impressive
The International Masonry Institute's first national advertising campaign---centering on the cost advantages of masonry is achieving impressive results, according to Neal English, IMI executive director. English reports that IMI's first national advertisement, which focused on both the initial and ultimate cost advantages of masonry walls in comparison with precast concrete, metal panel and glass panel walls, appeared in eight national magazines in the United States and Canada during October and November. The potential audience consisted of more than 1.5 million businessmen, architects, engineers and builders.
As of December 1, 1971, more than 1,150 readers had clipped the ad coupon, filled it out and mailed it to IMI headquarters in order to obtain the booklets "Walls to Save Dollars" and "Concrete Masonry Walls in Multi-Family Housing." English said that IMI expects to be receiving these requests for several more months. In addition, IMI is getting countless requests for other information and assistance from designers, owners and building professionals.
Booklet requests have come in from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, seven of Canada's 10 provinces, and seven foreign countries. The advertisements appeared in Business Week, Fortune, Architectural Record, Architecture Canada, Buildings, House & Home, Professional Builder, and Progressive Architecture.
Architects, engineers and other design professionals accounted for 43% of the response, with a significant number coming from students and professors. Contractors accounted for 19% of the response. Some 18% were from businessmen including real estate, development, building management and financial executives.
Sale Consummated
Jerome Castle, board chairman of Penn-Dixie Cement Corp., and Robert W. Fort, president of Medusa Portland Cement Co., have jointly announced the consummation of the purchase by Medusa of the Penn-Dixie cement mill, inventory and related facilities in Clinchfield, Ga., for approximately $13,700,000.
Izzo Elected President
of D.C. Masonry Institute
Anthony J. Izzo, Jr. has been elected president of the Masonry Institute, Washington, D. C. Izzo, who serves as president of Anthony Izzo Co., Inc., was elected by MI's board of directors following a general membership meeting in December. His father was one of the founders of the Masonry Institute and its president in 1959. The younger Izzo thus becomes the first of the second generation of MI members to follow in his father's footsteps.
Other officers elected were Ludwig Wiechmann of H. L. Wiechmann Co., vice president; Joseph T. Deckman, II of R. Robinson, Inc., secretary, and R. C. Doyle of Mark Masonry Co., Inc., treasurer.
Twin Cities Group
Holds Annual Dinner
The eighth annual dinner meeting for the combined Minneapolis/St. Paul area was staged on January 24 by the Concrete & Masonry Contractors Association of Minneapolis.
Main speaker for the evening was Ron Schifko, industry coordinator for the Masonry Institute of Michigan. He was accompanied by Jim Snyder of J. R. Snyder Masonry Co., Detroit, founder of the Detroit Mason Contractors Association and the MIM.
Dale Phillips served as program chairman for the meeting.
Northrop Buys Fuller
Northrop Corp. of Los Angeles has announced completion of arrangements to acquire George A. Fuller Co., a New York-based building construction firm.
Fuller, a privately-owned concern, has reported annual sales in excess of $150 million. Northrop, operating on a world-wide basis with sales of more than $600 million a year, is engaged principally in the aircraft, communications and electronics fields.