LARGE TIMBERS HEAVY TREATM CALENDAR

March

Nationel Home Cenler ShowMerch 8-10, McCorrnick Place, Chicago, Il.

Southcrn Foresl Products AscociationMarch 10, regional meetings, Diboll, Tx.; March ll, Camden, Ar.; March 12, Jackson, Ms.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Metcriel Deelers AssociationMsrch 9-ll, estimating seminar; Merch 12-13, quote & bid seminar, Holiday Inn, Bardstown, Ky.

Atlente Hoo-Hoo ClubMerch 16, cookout/Low-Country Boil, Vorco Inc., Atlanta, Ga.

Netional Herdwood Lumber AssocistionMarch 16-17, hardwood lumber drying seminar, NHLA Educational Building, Mernphis, Tn.

lnternational Hardwood Products AssociationMarch 1721, annual conventiory'World of Wood, Westin Canal Place, New Orleans, La.

Hardwood Manufecturere AesocialionMarch 18-20, annual meeting, Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, Ca.

Magnolia Hoo-Hoo ClubMarch 19, dinner meeting, Tico's Restaurant, Jackson, Ms.

Southern Cypress Manufacturers AssociationMarch 20, annual meeting, Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, Ca.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's AssociationMarch 20-21, Spring Mart, Oklahorna City Maniott/State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, Ok.

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers AssociationMarch 22-24, legislative leadership conference, Loew's L'enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.

National l{ood Flooring AssociationMarch 25-28, annual convention, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga.

Home Center InstituteMarch 28-31, Loss Prevention Conference, Florida Mall Sheraton Plaza, Orlando, Fl.

Virginia Building Material AssociationMarch 29-April 1, annual convention, Pinehurst Hotel & Country Club, Pinehurst, N.C.

American Wood Preservers InstituteMarch 3O-April 1, leadership conference, Washington, D.C.

April

Southern Forest Products Association - April l-3, committee & board meetings, Meridien Hotel, New Orleans, La.

Woodworking Industry Conference - April l-5, IndianWells, Ca.

Forest Industries Machinery ExpositionApril6-9, Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia.

National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association - April 610, installation school, Memphis, Tn.

National Dimension Manufacturers Association - April 1114, annual meeting, Perdido Beach Hilton, Orange Beach, Al.

Southern Forest Products Association - April 14, regional meetings, Columbia, S.C.; April 15, Raleigtr/Durham, N.C.; April 16, Richmond, Va.

Atlanta Hoo-Hoo Club - April 20, steak cookout/scholarship presentation, Chastain Park Legion Hut, Atlanta, Ga.

Lumbermens Association of Texas - April 30-May 3, annual convention, Henry Gonzales Convention Center, San Antonio, Tx.

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material Association installed Robert B. McClure Jr., McClure Lumber Co., Charlotte, N.C., as president during the annual building products show/convention. (See p. 20, 2l and 22 fot photos.)

Other officers: Berlin G. Myers Jr., Berlin G. Myers Lumber, Summerville, S.C., lst v.p.; Roy Lambert, Lambert Lumber, Lewisburg, Tn., 2nd v.p.; Everette Green, Mebane Lumber, Mebane, N.C.,3rd v.p.; Bob Witt, Witt Building Material, Knoxville, Tn., immediate past president; Larry W. Adams, executive v.p.

North Carolina directors: Eric Hulsey, Matthews Building Supply, Matthews; Wray Stephens, Stephens, Fuquay-Varina; Steve Edwards, Carolina Builders, Raleigh; Ronnie Mason, Nantahala Lumber, Franklin; Danny Stegall, Stegall Builder Mart, Monroe; Calvin Hall, Carolina Truss & Mfg., Monroe.

South Carolina directors: Gifford Shaw, Shaw Components, Sumter; Don Toner, Superior Home Center, Columbia; John Miller, Wm. T. Miller Lumber, Camden; Wilson Mishoe, Waccamaw Building Center, Conway; Whit Shaw, Shaw Lumber, Sumter; Joye Shuler, Southern Lumber & Millwork, Charleston.

Tennessee directors: Richard Vowell, Vowell & Sons, Martin; Pat Welsh, Builders Supply Co., Tulahoma; Dick Farrar Jr., Williams Lumber & Supply, Fayetteville; Terry Haynes, Haynes Brothers Lumber, Murfreesboro; Art Swann, Cherokee Lumber & Millwork, Maryville; Gene McKinney, Tindell's, Knoxville.

The Jan. 16-18 meeting was held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Charlotte, with the buying show at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Lumberments Association of Texas will hold its 1992 expo April 30-May 2 in San Antonio.

TCU head football coach Jim Wacker and UT Lady Longhorns Coach Jody Conradt will present sessions on Friday and Saturday mornings.

President Jeff Chapman and presidentelect Dick Ledermann are convention cochairmen. Team members include Melvin Faircloth, Keith Kirk, Jeff Klare, Chuck Pool, Bruce Agness, Buck Buchanan, Rick Mclaughlin, Pete Smart, Kyle Williams, Melvin Allen, Frank Bates, Steve Herren, Gene Mathis, George Peevey, Ron Welch, Parker Beebe and Gary Hester.

In addtion to chalk talks by the coaches (special business sessions geared for retailers and exhibitors), there will be show specials and a new product showcase. Socials include a golf tournarnent, murder mystery dinner theater, a free reception for retailers at the Institute of Texan Cultures and the president's dinner.

Past NLBMDA president Bob Curtis, Dean Kanaly, chairman and ceo, Kanaly Trust Co., and Rieky Escalante, Western