PERS NALS

Robert Renfroe, mgr., CSI, Charlotte, N.C., has resigned to open his own computer business in Florida.

Robert C. Spargo is the new director of sales for Yale Security Inc., Charlotte, N.C. Kenneth E. Boate is national sales mgr., and William J. Ross, director of marketing. Yale pres. P.J. "Pat" Mdord has been elected pres. of the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association.

James F. Bagwell, Diamond Hill Plywood Co., Darlington, S.C., has been promoted to v.p. of operations.

Lanty L. Smith has been elected to the board of directors of W. R. Bonsal Co., Charlotte, N.C.

Thomas B. Malarkey is now vice chairman of the Pacific Lumber Co. John A. Campbell is pres., succeeding William C. Leone, who remains chairman and c.e.o.

Robert Dawson Williams, Columbia Lumber Co., Columbia, S.C., married Kim Elizabeth Hoover on Dec. 10,1988.

Greg Yelvington, senior photographer, Scotty's, Winter Haven, Fl., has been named a certified professional photographer by the Professional Photographers of America Inc.

Scott Plemmons, Teri Henson and Donna Sanders, Lowe's, Franklin, N.C., have earned their store top corporate recruiter honors in the first Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce Corporate Membership Drive.

Jim Sexton has been named sales mgr. of KCS Lumber, Idabel, Ok.

Craig Anthony Byrd has been named Alabama account executive for the Lumber Mutual Insurance Co.

Burl Terrill, pres., Terrill Manufacturing Co., San Angelo, Tx., has been installed as pres. of the Architectural Woodwork Institute, Arlington, Va. Other officers: treas. Yves Des Marais, Hollywood Woodwork, Hollywood, Fl. Board members: Michael Bell, Wood Systems, Tulsa, Ok.: Gerald Brewer. Louisville Lumber, Louisville, Ky.; Robert Leininger, Leininger Cabinet, Lexington, Ky.; Doyle Lykins, Terrill Manufacturing; Harold Yates, Garland Woodcraft, Durham, N.C.; Bobby Crve, Stylecraft Cabinets, Garland, Tx., and Leonard Cocp, Coco Millwork & Supply, Baton Rouge, La.

Edward F. Steck, v.p. of marketing, Siempelkamp Corp., Marietta, Ga., has retired after 42 years with the co. Terry Jones has joined Leaf River Forest Products, New Augusta, Ms. as sales mgr.

Ron Whittington has been named store mgr. of Lowe's, Kingsport, Tn. Lisa Rye has been appointed field sales rep for N.C., S.C. and Ga. at Tarkett, Hardwood Div., Johnson City, Tn., according to Thomas H. Reese Jr., v.p., sales & marketing.

Ed Bewley, systems analyst, Roll-AWay/Prime Windo, St. Petersburg, Fl., has been named Employee of the Year; Moshe Gershuny, Salesman of the Year: Bob Hoke. Retail Salesman of the Year; Ralph Sylvester, Rookie Salesman of the Year; Laurie Kipka, Telemarketer of the Year, and Mike Cirasuolo and Larry Sagmmato, special sales awards.

Harold C. Maxwell, group v.p., Temple-lnland Forest Products Corp., Diboll, Tx., has been elected lst vice chairman of the National Forest Products Association.

Kevin Phillip Pack, Lowe's, Matthews, N.C., married Amanda Kay Ashley on Dec. 18, 1988. Merribeth Michelle Miller, Lowe's Hardware, Lenoir, N.C., married Jeffrey Nelson Triplett on Dec. 17, 1988.

Troy lrwin, metal products sales mgr., Georgia-Pacific, Fort Worth, Tx., has been named regional Employee of the Quarter. Other winners for the third quarter of 1988 include computer operator Linda Smith, Tyler, Tx., and sales reps Robert Dineen, Wilmington, N.C.; Curtis Posey, Lake City, Fl.;Jim Lujan, Memphis, Tn., and Ken Reynolds, Huntsville, Al.

Tom Lapinski is the new pres. of Duke City Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N.M. Eddie Justus is sales mgr., and Barry Garrison is now in Southeastern sales.

Doug Barr, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Lexington, Ky., has been promoted to midwest regional industrial sales mgr. ln Atlanta. Ga.. Chris Kohne has been named regional accounting mgr., millwork & specialty centers; Jim Detmer, Southeast regional account executive, and Bob Gordon, management trainee.

John Giggetts, Lowe's, South Boston, Va., was named his store's Warehouseman of the Year.

David Thompson and Lester Baldwin, Lowe's Athens, Ga., rvere presented an honor roll certificate for the store's contributions to the United Way of McMinn County fund drive.

Bob Armstrong has joined the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, Pensacola, Fl., servicing the Atlanta, Ga., area.

John Ed Dean, owner and founder, Dean Lumber Co., Gilmer, Tx., is recuperating from open-heart bypass surgery following a Dec. 30 heart attack.

Jon Cromwell, pres., Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association, is now representing Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co. in Louisiana.

Pam Kolb, Convergent Building Material Systems, has moved to the co.'s Dallas, Tx., office.

Timothy D. Stine, Stine Lumber Co., Sulphur, La., is a newly elected member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

R. Joseph Wildman is the new pres. and c.e.o of Amarillo Hardware, Amarillo, Tx., succeeding Edward J. Vogt Jr., who has retired.

Jack O'Leary, Union Camp Corp., has been elected chairman of the newly formed Particleboard/Medium Density Fiberboard Institute. Norm Yoss, Georgia-Pacific, is vice chairman; William Mc{redie, National Particleboard Association. treas.: Rich Margosian, NPA, sec., and Eddie McMillan, Willamette Industries, and Ted Bauer, Medite Corp., directors.

Bruce Adkins has been promoted to national v.p. of sales at Benchmark Doors, Fredericksburg, Va., replacing Thomas O. Williams, who has resigned. Rick Wright is now Southeastern regional sales mgr.

R. Frank DuBose is now v.p., operations, at CooperTools, Raleigh, N.C., according to Jerry H. Godwin, v.p. and gen. mgr.

Joe Dwyer is now pres. of Vulcan Metal Products, Birmingham, Al. Ed Nemeth is v.p.-manufacturing; Randy Hoover, national sales mgr., and Forrest Flaniken, c.f.o.

Thomas R. Ingham Jr., pres., Simpson Timber Co., Arcata, Ca., has been elected chairman of the American Plywood Association's board of trustees. John N. Galloway is vice chairman.

Otto D'Tayleng is now working in maintenance at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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