Masonry Magazine June 1974 Page. 22
IMI Trustees, Advisors Meet in Washington
Pausing for the photographer during their recent meeting in Washington, D.C. were Trustees and Advisors of the International Masonry Institute. Seated (from the left) are: John T. Joyce, Charles Velardo, Thomas F. Murphy and Donald Bidwell. Standing (left to right): Neal English, Eugene George, George A. Miller, James F. Richardson, David B. Soloff, Jr., Gerald Carlisle and Edward M. Bellucci. Highly appropriate is the specially constructed brick wall that graces the spacious conference room where IMI meetings are held.
Isberner Addresses Oregon Masonry Guild
Albert W. Isberner, P.E., a nationally recognized research engineer with the Portland Cement Association, was featured speaker at an All-Weather Masonry Construction Seminar sponsored by the Oregon Masonry Guild in Portland, May 16.
Isberner, who has authored several technical books related to the properties of mortar and grout in masonry construction, recently completed an extended research trip of Canada in mid-winter to test masonry materials in sub-zero weather. Later he duplicated this testing program by studying weather conditions exceeding temperatures of 100 degrees in Florida and Arizona.
Case Expands 5 Plants
JI Case Co., Racine, Wis., a leading producer of construction equipment. has announced a major expansion program involving five of its U.S. facilities. When completed in 1975, the total program will add 1.4 million square feet of production space.
Credit Crunch Wipes Out Housing Recovery
Housing activity stabilized in the opening quarter of this year following 1973's steep decline, but hopes for recovery in the months ahead "have been all but eliminated" by the onset of the second credit crunch in less than a year, it was reported by the F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill Information Systems Co., New York, N.Y.
According to Dodge, the opening quarter's total of 344,575 new housing units was 35 per cent below the same period a year earlier, when the housing market was at its peak, but was only slightly below the low rate reached by 1973's fourth quarter.
People & Events...
Jack MacNider, president of Northwestern States Portland Cement Co., Mason City, la., is the new board chairman of the Portland Cement Association, Skokie, III.. Jack Brown, president of J. & J. Contractors, Inc., has been elected president of the Unit Masonry Association of Greater Cincinnati. Others elected were Ralph Sandoz, financial secretary of Bricklayers Union Local 18, vice president, and Jim Stevens, C-Block, Inc., secretary-treasurer. John H. Price has been elevated to vice president/international for Pittsburgh Corning Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa. He also serves as board chairman for Pittsburgh Corning Europe, S.A.
Distant relatives are the best kind, and the further away the better.
Mark Pavlovich has been appointed manager of the concrete block industry sales department of Signode Corp., Glenview, III., replacing W.P. Kelly who becomes manager of the clay brick industry sales department. Jerry Leff, Ballston Lake, N.Y., has been named architectural representative for Sonneborn-Contech's Sono line of concrete floor sealer systems... Patrick J. Walsh, Jr. is the new general plant manager, Zonolite Pacific region, for the Construction Products Division of W.R. Grace & Co., Cambridge, Mass.
Allen G. Schoener of Al Schoener Associates, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Tower Sales Engineering Co., Paramus, N.J., have been appointed architectural representatives for Sonneborn-Contech, Minneapolis, Minn., supplier of plastic and chemical building materials to the construction industry. The Mason Contractors of Greater Chicago held their annual golf outing June 28 at the Midwest Country Club in Oak Brook, III.. Richard E. Gill has been named executive vice president of Huron Cement Division, National Gypsum Co., Southfield, Mich.
Ideal to Build Plant
Ideal Basic Industries, Inc., Denver, Colo., announced that the Industrial Development Board of the city of Mobile, Ala., has taken action which would enable Ideal to finance the cost of constructing a new cement plant there through the proceeds of the sale of industrial development and pollution control revenue bonds.
In Memoriam
ROGER H. CORBETTA
Roger H. Corbetta, co-founder and board chairman of Corbetta Construction Co., Inc., New York City, died of an apparent heart attack May 26 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He would have been 78 years old on June 9.
Mr. Corbetta, who made his home at Attebroc Farm, Millbrook, N.Y., was in the city to attend a luncheon at which he was to be honored by the Prestressed Concrete Institute for his outstanding contributions to the field of construction.
ALOYSIUS F. JACOB
Aloysius F. Jacob, retired owner of the mason contracting firm of Aloysius F. Jacob & Sons, died on April 24 at the age of 81. He operated his company from 1935 until his retirement in 1960. Prior to that he had worked for his father's masonry firm from 1913 to 1935.