Masonry Magazine January 1973 Page. 33
Mason Contractor News...
People & Events...
MCAA member Herschel Hunt of Indianapolis spent some time in the hospital and now is back on the job again in good health. Stephen Raimo's firm, Ray Contracting Co., Syosset, N.Y., recently celebrated its 50th year in business-a record many construction companies would envy. In Kitchener, Ontario, MCAA Regional Vice President Eugene George and his lovely wife Pat recently became the proud parents of their eighth boy, Christopher John. This past Christmas the Masonry Institute of Michigan came up with a novel gift idea. It's an ample-sized coffee mug decorated with a wall of brick on which are super-imposed such slogans as, "A Warming Thought-Use Masonry" and "Masonry Puts People to Work-Not Machines." A very fine promotional piece for the entire Industry!
The kind of dresses men admire most are the kind they object to seeing on their wives.
Sky Climber, Inc., a subsidiary of Western Gear Corp., Gardena, Calif., has opened a new district office in Tampa, Fla. at 6905 Adamo Dr. and appointed Joe Gonzales district manager. The new office sells, rents and services the complete Sky Climber line of power hoists, swing stages and related equipment. Frank Masiello, FARA, of Masiello & Associates, Palm Beach, Fla. and Worcester, Mass., has been elected president of (Continued on page 46)
NTCA Elects Brown
Dee Brown of Dee Brown Masonry, Inc. was elected president of the North Texas Contractors Association at the group's board meeting held at the Ramada Inn in Arlington, December 5, 1972.
Serving with Brown on the Executive committee will be: 1st vice president, Jim Patterson of Thos. S. Byrne, Inc.; 2nd vice president, W.O. Rimbey of Gunn & Briggs, Inc.; 3rd vice president, C.E. (Gene) Turner of Robert E. McKee, Inc.; secretary, S.E. (Stimmy) Ammons of Farwell Corp. of Texas; treasurer, John T. Cadenhead of Cadenhead Construction Co.; assistant secretary, R. Sandy Hallman of Hallman & Hallman, Inc.; assistant treasurer, Lamar Jordan of Schwarz-Jordan, Inc., and immediate past president, M.C. Wooten, General Engineering Corp.
St. Louis Masonry Trust Appoints Pautler
Richard J. DeWalle, chairman of the St. Louis Masonry Development Trust, has announced the appointment of Raymond W. (Bill) Pautler as executive director. The trust was founded in 1971 by the St. Louis Mason Contractors Association in co-operation with Bricklayers Local No. 1 to promote increased masonry construction through advertising and public relations programs.
Pautler will be in charge of administering the programs and will serve as the mason contracting industry's personal representative to the St. Louis Construction Industry. Previously, Pautler was employed for three years as director of technical services for the St. Louis Metalworking Industry Fund. Prior to that he was an architectural representative for the F. W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill Information Systems Co.
He is a professional member of the St. Louis Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute. A native of St. Louis, he attended St. Louis University.
Morstead, Hubler In New Canadian Posts
Two top-level executive appointments have been announced for the masonry industry in Canada.
Harry Morstead, recently retired president of the Canadian Masonry Contractors Association, is the new executive director of the Unit Masonry Council of Alberta with headquarters in Calgary, and Robert L.. Hubler, Jr. assumes the post of director of promotion for the Ontario Masonry Contractors Association.
Morstead is a veteran of the mason contracting field with more than 23 years of service in Alberta and British Columbia. Hubler is a graduate civil engineer and has been connected with the construction, advertising and promotional fields since 1954. His duties with OMCA will include the promotion of architectural and structural masonry construction with emphasis on the economics of both approaches.
Schools To Modernize
Almost half the nation's school systems will be modernizing their facilities this school year and saving taxpayers money at the same time, according to a national survey of school business officials conducted by School Product News. An average 46.5 per cent of all school systems will upgrade their educational facilities through renovation, redesign and modernization of existing buildings this year, the publication reported.
By using existing structures with architectural and equipment modifications, school systems will save, in some cases, half the cost of new structures, will not remove valuable land from the tax duplicate, and will not disrupt the school's normal teaching schedule, the report said.