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People & Events...
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C. E. Kaiser Co., Houston, Texas, manufacturer of ceramic tile mortars and grouts, has named Dennis D. Chisa technical rep for the southwest Texas region.
Dan Stupek has joined Fensholt Incorporated, Chicago, Ill., a business-to-business marketing communications firm, as an account executive servicing clients from Fensholt's Milwaukee, Wis., office. Before joining Fensholt, Stupek was a v.p. with a Milwaukee public relations firm and before that held management positions in marketing communications with Koehring, a unit of AMCA International. Gerald Travis has resigned as president of the Mason Contractors Association of Utah following his recent decision to leave the masonry industry for other business pursuits.
Floyd S. Nixon, Jr., a civil engineer and formerly general manager of Hanna, Zabriskie & Daron, Inc., a Detroit industrial contracting firm, has been appointed president of the Masonry Institute of Michigan, succeeding John A. Heslip, who recently became executive vice president of the National Concrete Masonry Association. ProSoCo., Inc., Kansas City. Kan., recently hosted a reception in the U.S. Capitol to celebrate the completion of one phase of the ongoing restoration of the Capitol building, in which ProSoCo's new Spray-Grade heavy duty paint stripper was used to strip away 200 years of paint from the Capitol's sandstone surface.
Former MCAA administrative assistant Charmain Kunz and her husband Mike are the happy parents of their first son, Matthew Michael, who weighed in at 6 lbs. 9 oz. on March 25, 1984. Dean C. "Pat" Patterson, formerly assistant chief engineer, Engineering & Research Division, Brick Institute of America, has resigned his post to pursue other interests.
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Kentuckiana Institute
Presents Design Awards
Three architectural firms were honored for their excellence in masonry design in the fourth annual awards program sponsored by the Kentuckiana Masonry Institute.
The honors were announced at a Masonry Awards Luncheon in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Lexington, attended by 110 persons to see the bronze-cast plaques presented to the winners.
The highest honor, the "M Award," was given to DCT Design Associates, Lexington, for its design of the Central Welding Supplies, Inc. office/warehouse. The Merit Award was presented to Louis & Henry, Inc., Louisville, for the Kentucky Telco Federal Credit Union. John Shulhafer & Associates, Louisville, received a Recognition Award for its design of the Avery Federal Savings & Loan Association project.
Elizabeth M. Atinay, president, Kentucky Society of Architects, Lexington, announced the winners and presented the awards. Brick sculptor Mara Smith of Houston, Texas, was the guest speaker.
Illinois Masonry Institute
Adds Architect to Staff
Mark A. Redd, an architecture graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, has joined the staff of the Illinois Masonry Institute Promotion Trust. He also will be closely associated with the programs of the Masonry Advisory Council.
A native Chicagoan, Redd has four years' experience in the construction industry. He was a construction supervisor for the Department of Defense and a structural designer with a major engineering firm in the Midwest.
BIA Turns Up Historic Baseball Photo
Sidney Harris, the nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, occasionally begins one of his columns with the phrase: "Things I learned en route to looking up other things." That seems to be the case with the Brick Institute of America's Region 9, which recently turned up the oldest known action photo of a baseball game while researching brick seacoast fortifications in the United States.
The photo, which is in the possession of the Boston Public Library's Rare Book Department, depicts Company H of the 48th New York Regiment posed for a formal portrait in 1862 or 1863 at Fort Pulaski in Savannah, Ga. In the background, an informal baseball game is clearly in progress.
According to National Baseball Hall of Fame librarian Thomas R. Heitz, several baseball team pictures dating from the 1850s and 60s are known to exist, but action shots of actual games were rare due to the limitations of photographic technology of that period. "Although the figures are distant and indistinct in the Fort Pulaski photograph, there is no question that a baseball game is in progress," Heitz said.
The Brick Institute's Region 9 is conducting extensive research into American brick forts built in the mid-1800s, which constituted the U.S's first systematic approach to a national defense policy.