Masonry Magazine August 1975 Page. 22
Apprenticeship Trust
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IMAT will handle the development of instructional materials, and recruiting candidates.
IMAT will be a voluntary program, funded through contributions of one cent per manhour worked, negotiated by contractor members of the Mason Contractors Association and local unions of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union.
The objective of IMAT, Velardo and Murphy said, is to increase the supply of skilled bricklayers, provide assured funding for training young apprentices, and to maintain and increase the skill levels of trowel tradesmen.
Murphy and Velardo emphasized that IMAT will help develop the new skills needed by trowel tradesmen to meet the sweeping changes in masonry technology that have taken place in recent years-changes such as the advent of engineered, loadbearing masonry and prefabricated masonry panels.
Because some localities in the U.S. and Canada do not have adequate training facilities, IMAT will work toward the establishment of a national trowel trades training center.
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Trustees of IMAT are: Robert Ebeling, chairman, mason contractor from Detroit, Mich.; Charles Velardo, Boston, Mass., president, Mason Contractors Association; George Miller, executive vice president, Mason Contractors Association; Thomas F. Murphy, president, Bricklayers, Masons & Plasterers International Union of America: James Richardson, first vice president, BM&PIU; and Merlin Taylor, special assistant to the president, BM&PIU.
Concrete & Masonry Day
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The project is the construction of a bubbler fountain and council fire ring in S. St. Paul's Lorraine Park.
Upon hearing of this project, the governor reminisced about his early days when he was employed by one of the state's masonry construction firms, Gilbert Construction.
Thomas Richardson, Executive Director of the Minnesota Masonry Institute, a participant in the "Project in the Park" project, contacted Peter Gilbert, president of Gilbert Construction. In those early days, Gilbert was Anderson's supervisor and employer.
"At the time the governor was working his way through college and we hired him as a tender to the journeyman bricklayers and cement finishers." Gilbert continued, "He was a good worker a very energetic fellow. I still see him every now and then; and when we meet, he usually asked if we've still got his wheelbarrow warmed up... just in case he doesn't make it in politics."
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masonry
August, 1975