Masonry Magazine January 1977 Page. 29
Velardo Elected Chairman of IMI
Examining a document at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the International Masonry Institute (IMI) are the newly elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Advisors of IMI, Charles F. Velardo (center) and Eugene George (far left), newly elected Vice Chairman. Looking on are IMI past Chairman David B. Soloff, Jr. (second from left); IMI Executive Director Neal English, and MCAA Executive Vice President George A. Miller.
Charles F. Velardo, principal in the mason contracting firm of G. Salvucci & Co., Newton Highlands, Mass., has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Advisors of the International Masonry Institute (IMI), Washington, D.C. Velardo succeeds David B. Soloff, Jr., president of Larson & Soloff, Inc., a mason contracting firm based in Chattanooga, Tenn. Soloff, a Past President of the Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA), served as IMI chairman for two years and will continue to serve as an IMI Trustee.
Elected IMI Vice Chairman was Eugene George, president of G. A. Masonry Ltd., mason contractor, Kitchener, Ont., Canada.
Velardo and George were among the founding Trustees of the six-year-old International Masonry Institute, which has become the primary resource and promotion center for masonry construction in the United States and Canada. IMI is funded through collective bargaining agreements between local affiliates of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen (BAC) and mason contractors.
Velardo is immediate Past President of MCAA. He served for two years as MCAA's Vice President, has been a Regional Vice President of MCAA for the Northeast, and was a founder and for six years President of the Mason Contractors Association of Massachusetts. He is also a founding Trustee of the new International Masonry Apprenticeship Trust.
Velardo, who has served for the past two years as Vice Chairman of the IMI Board, has also served as its Secretary.
Both Velardo and George are active members of the International Masonry Industry All-Weather Council. George is the current Vice President of MCAA and Chairman of the All-Weather Council.
In his career Velardo has been a bricklayer and a government engineer, in addition to his work as a mason contractor. He has been associated with G. Salvucci & Co. since 1953.
IMAT Textbook
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nization. Harland Randolph, Ph.D., is an honorary member of BAC and a specialist in the development of instructional systems and curriculum materials.
Thomas F. Murphy, President of the Bricklayers' Union, commended Taylor and Randolph for their work. He noted that the new text provides the first proof that IMAT can reach its important goals of helping to meet manpower needs and improving journeyman skills.
Murphy pointed also to the group's efforts to standardize the instructional process and materials, to provide assistance to participating joint programs, to work to establish a national training center, and to promote IMAT's image as the national resource on masonry training.
The IMAT Board of Trustees, in addition to Ebeling, Murphy and Taylor, consists of Bricklayers' Union first vice president James F. Richardson and mason contractors Charles F. Velardo, a past president of MCAA. Newton Highlands, Mass., and G. W. Veazey, Jr., Houston, Texas.
Volume I of The Bricklayer is available only as part of the complete three-volume set at a total price of $38.00 including postage and handling. The second and third volumes will be forwarded without additional charge upon their publication this year. All orders must be prepaid and sent to IMAT, 815 15th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
ABMC's 50th Anniversary
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Inn at LaGuardia Airport in Queens. The black tie affair was attended by more than 300 persons including association members, labor representatives and their wives and guests.
Honored guests were MCAA President Robert Ebeling and Mrs. Ebeling. Detroit, Mich.; MCAA Past President David B. Soloff, Jr. and Mrs. Soloff, Chattanooga, Tenn., immediate Past President Charles F. Velardo and Mrs. Velardo, Newton Highlands, Mass., and MCAA Executive Vice President George A. Miller and Mrs. Miller, Oak Brook, III.
Also among the honored guests were Thomas F. Murphy. President, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen (BAC). Merlin Taylor, assistant to the president of BAC, and Mrs. Taylor, and L. Gerald Carlisle, director, Collective Bargaining Division, BAC, and Mrs. Carlisle, all of Washington, D.C.
Anthony J. Zotollo, president of the Associated Brick Mason Contractors of Greater New York, received a gold plated trowel from MCAA President Robert Ebeling commemorating the association's 50 years of service to the masonry industry.
WIC Awards Scholarship
The Portland (Ore.) chapter of Women In Construction has awarded a scholarship to William N. Smith, Jr., son of Mr. & Mrs. William N. (Nels) Smith of Smith Masonry Contractors (MCAA). The scholarship is awarded each year to a deserving student whose academic endeavors are directed toward a degree in construction-oriented fields such as engineering and architecture.