Masonry Magazine February 1979 Page. 23
Mason Contractor News
# New Director and New Address for MC & MCA
Thomas Bell has been named executive director of the Minnesota Concrete & Masonry Contractors Association. He succeeds Robert L. Hanson, who resigned to become executive director of the St. Paul Area Builders Association.
The new address and phone number for the MC & MCA is P.O. Box 45, Crystal Bay, MN 55323. (612) 472-2441.
# Pulsipher Heads MCAU
Larry Pulsipher has been reelected president of the Mason Contractors Association of Utah. Also reelected were Chris Jacobsen, vice president, north area; Paul Ercanbrack, vice president, south area, and Jerry Hofheins, vice president, central area.
Newly elected as secretary-treasurer was Doyle Hatfield.
# Grant Heads MISL
Donald Grant, president of Grant Bricklaying Co., Inc., has been elected chairman of the Masonry Institute of St. Louis. Grant (left) is pictured here with Bill Pautler, executive director of the Masonry Institute of St. Louis.
Grant is also currently serving as vice president of the Mason Contractors Association of St. Louis. He is a graduate engineer from Washington University and has been a mason contractor since 1960.
The Masonry Institute of St. Louis is the promotional and technical agency representing contractors, labor, and masonry material suppliers in the St. Louis construction market.
# Chicago Masonry Council Sponsors A/E Seminar
"Masonry For All Reasons," a seminar designed to explain the many benefits of masonry loadbearing wall systems and how thermal efficiency with masonry can play a vital role in design, was recently presented by the Metropolitan Chicago Masonry Council.
The educational program attracted more than 450 architects, engineers, and students from five midwestern schools of architecture. Among the speakers was James "Buck" Richardson, P.E., director of masonry engineering, International Masonry Institute, who discussed "Energy Conservation Concepts with Masonry."
# Memphis Masonry Group Names Fields to Top Post
The Masonry Institute of Memphis has named Morgan I Fields as its chief executive. Fields formerly had been director of manpower and education for the Brick Institute of America's Region 9 in Atlanta.
In Memphis, he will be responsible for communication with design professionals, serving as liaison between them and the masonry industry.
# McGraw-Hill to Acquire Assets of Wood & Tower
McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, N.Y., announced it has signed a contract to acquire the principal assets of Wood & Tower, a firm which has pioneered in developing computer-based cost services for use in estimating new construction and appraising existing construction.
Based in Princeton, N.J., the 29-year-old Wood & Tower organization maintains a comprehensive data bank covering costs of some 12,000 different building components.
# New Design Assignment
Gruzen & Partners, architects and planners of New York, has been selected by the State of Georgia Department of Offender Rehabilitation to design the Atlanta Men's/Women's Correctional Center, consisting of two 400-bed medium security facilities.
The firm, specialists in correctional facility design, is in association with Jova, Daniels, Busby, architects and planners of Atlanta. The estimated cost of the project is $24 million.
# Robert B. Priest Named General Manager of Robert G. Evans Firm
Robert B. Priest has been named general manager of the Robert G. Evans Co. Division of Federal-Mogul Corp., Kansas City, Mo., on the retirement of Robert G. Evans, president and founder.
The Evans company, under the "Target" label, produces a wide line of masonry/refractory, concrete/ asphalt saws, concrete groovers, blades and related products.
A native of Virginia and a product of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Priest began his career in the masonry and concrete saw industry in 1960 as branch manager in Richmond, Va., for the old Clipper Manufacturing Co. and later as regional manager of Pavement Specialists, Inc.
In his new post, Priest will be responsible for Evans' operations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
Additional promotions also were announced by the company. They are:
►Glen L. Schwartz, to national sales manager. Schwartz joined Evans in 1968 as district manager for Target Southern.
►Jack E. Garbig, to product development manager. Garbig will be please turn page