PERS NALS

Eric Yeadon is now with Fry wholesale Kendra Pipes is the new technical sales Lumber Co., Dallas, Tx. rep for Temple-Eastex Inc.'s Building Bob and Jim SkinneraresellinginN.C.& Products Dv., sales and marketing Va. for Babcock Lumber Co., Pitts- group, in So. Tk., and La., according burgh, Pa. to Joe K. Sample, building products

Larry Thornton has joined St. Regis v.p.-marketing.

Corp. in Jacksonville, Fl., as an account exec.

Gary Easton is now v.p. and gen. mgr. at Scholl Forest Products, Inc., Houston, Tk.

Dan Frachiseur is new at the Broadview Lumber Co. office, Birmingham, Al.

Bob Bratton has joined Bob Edwards at the Rocky Mount, N.C., office of Plunkett-Webster, Inc.

Carl Hancuff, former gen. mgr., field sales, Macklanburg-Duncan, Oklahoma City, Ok., is now v.p. of field sales,

John E. Kennedy, Shreveport, La., is the new pres. of the Southern Pressure Treaters Association; I.L. Enochs, Fernwood, Ms., lst v.p.; C. B. Conpton, Savannah, Ga., 2nd v.p.; Jrmes L. Respess III, Valdosta, Ga., treas.; R.D. Russell, Dallas, Tl., sec.; W. F. Follen, Jackson, Ms., director at large; M.J. Golasinski, Spartanburg, S.C.; Earl Clendandiel, Pittsburgh, Pa.; D. Wayne Hill, Gulfport, Ms.; Lowell Stanley, Louisville, Ky.; Clyde Norton, Pineville, La., and Charline Muller, Conroe, Tl., directors.

Michael J. Kearins is now v.p. of sales for Bruce Hardwood Floors, Dallas, Tx. Melvin D. Burkhardt has been named Southeast sales mgr., based in Charlotte, N.C.

Digges Morgan has joined the Southern Forest Products Association, New Orleans, La., as assistant v.p. for public affairs.

Dadd Boerger has joined C & I Wood Products, Inc., El Paso, TX.

Ray Noe is now with Southern Wood Specialists, Starksville, Ms.

Bob Starford is gen. mgr. of Snavely Forest Products' new wholesale lumber and plywood distribution facility, Dallas, Tl.

Thomas Mastandrea is now a sales rep in Houston, Tl., for the Chemical Coatings Div. of The Sherwin-Williams Co.

Phillip R. Shrigley is the new Southwest regional sales mgr. for Graber Industries, Inc., in Dallas, Tx., according to Fred Nichols, v.p., sales.

John Ramsey is now pres.of Diamond Hill Plywood Co., Darlington, S.C., succeeding Jack Ramsey who is now chairman of the board. Jim Bagwell is the new national accounts sales mgr. Charles Waites is now a trader at Stringfellow Lumber Co., Birmingham, Al.

Ed McClelland is the new Southwest area v.p. of Wickes Lumber, including Ar., La., Ms., Ok., Tk.

T. Marshall Hahn Jr., pres. and c.e.o. of Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta, Ga., is succeeding Robert E. Flowerree, who has retired as chairman of the board. Richard V. Giordano, group managing director and c.e.o. of the BOC Group, London, England, was elected as a director; Marion L. Talmadge, v,p, and treas, became v.p.executive affairs with lYayne I. Tamblyn, assistant treas., filling the treasurer's spot.

Jeff Eckernan, Boise Cascade Building Materials Center, Temple, Tk., won third place in the Boise Cascade Building Materials Distribution Division forklift rodeo. Competitors included Jesus Davila, Garland, Tx., BMC; Scott Giles, Oklahoma City, Ok., BMC; Joe Guzman, Melendy Yard, Houston, TX.

Tom Murphy, Boise Cascade Building Materials Center, Grapevine, Tt., who holds a brown belt in Tae Kwondo karate, is preparing for the Summer Olympics.

David Bogedain is now Southeast area mgr. for States Industries, Inc., Eugene, Or.

Charline Hawthorne Muller, Southern Pressure Treaters Association board member, has been named pres. of the Conroe, Tx., chamber of commerce.

Brad C. Reeves is now regional sales mgr. for major appliances for Amana Refrigeration, Inc., based in Dallas, Tl.

Ben Dale has been promoted to gen. sales mgr. for Cox Wood Preserving, in N.C. and S.C. Richard Thorpe, v.p. of marketing has been promoted to marketing of new products, advertising and international sales, according to W.B. Cox, pres.

Frank X. Brennan is now Southeastern regional mgr. for Simpson Timber Co.'s panel products div. headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., according to John White, marketing mgr'

John Sawyer is now v.p. of the hardware div. at Moore Handley, Birmingham, Al. Ron Butler is the new v.p., hardware div. marketing and sales; John Kinabrcw, V.p., of the StaufferEshleman div., all reporting to J.R. Duquette, senior v.p.

Don Langston is now with Genuine Hardware Co., Atlanta, Ga.

Tom Paris, Sr., Paris-Dunlap Hardware, Gainesville, Ga., is recuperating after hip surgery.

I*on D. Roberts is representing Master Sales, Greensboro, N.C., in Va.

Wahldean Brunson, Thomson Oak Flooring, Thomson, Ga,, pres of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association, Bill Mullican, McMinnville Manufacturing Co. , McMinnville, Tn., v.p.,and George Kelly, managing director, have all been re-elected. New directors:John E. Ftix, Arkansas Oak Flooring Co.,Pine Bluff, Ar.; Allen Harris, Jr., Harris-Tarkett, Inc., Memphis, Tn.; Harry Preston, Cumberland Lumber and Manufacturing Co., McMinnville, Tn.

Charles Griffin has joined Mason Plywood, Paneling and Lumber Co., Hattiesburg, Ms.

Bob Kincaid, former editor and publisher of the Southern Pine Bulletin, is opening a London, England, office to represent the Southern Forest Products Association and the Western Wood Products Association. Durand L. Darbyshire, formerly with Carolina Mills Lumber Co., Conway, S.C., has joined SFPA's field staff, based in Columbus, Ohio

Dave Presley has joined Trinity .Forest Industries in outside sales in East Tx. Howard Wold, is new production supervisor for the new architectural millwork plant at Hurst, Tx.,Hq., according to Greg Ryback, pres.

Jerry Huber, Cindy Wilson and Chet Boggs are new to the Epperson Lumber Sales, Inc., staff in Statesville, N.C., according to Gary W. Miller, gen. mgr.

Billy Schaefer, pres., Central Woodwork, Inc., Memphis, Tn., is the 1984 lst v.p. of the National Sash and Door Jobbers Association; directors include Phillip Hubnick, v.p., Davidson, Texas, Inc., Austin, Tl; Larry Ray, pres., Triangle Distributors, Inc., Tupelo, Ms.; Ronald Rowland, pres., Crown Sash & Door,Inc., Dallas, Tx.

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