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John M. Kennedy has been named gen. mgr. for T. H. Rogers Lurnber Co., Oklahoma City, Ok., according to Bill Payne.

Roneld Helmo has becn named pres. of Roper Bros. Lumber Co., Midlothian, Va., reports Dennir Burrows.

John E. Seward, senior v.p., Paty Co., Piney Flats, Tn., has been appointed an honorary member of the Hamilton Bank board of directors.

John W. Teder is now sales & business management trainer for Inter-City Products Corp.'s national training center, LaVergne, Tn.

Samuel Nclf Jenkins has been named pres. of Jenkns-Essex Supply, Elizabethtown, Ky., succeeding his father, Jay Jenkins, who retired from daily operations but continues as chairman.

Bill Hoel isthenewmktg. mgr.-CraftMaster door products domestic & international at Masonite.

Allen Wiggins has been named v.p. and director of sales & mktg. for Lumber Investors Inc., Alexandria, Va.

Omer Linercs has joined Mike Cesh in sales at Heritage Forest Productrs' new Miami, Fl., branch, reports v.p. C. Frcd Blackmen.

Suzenne Apple is now director of community affairs for Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga.

Christy Lynn Moore, accounts payable, Home Depot, Smyrna, Ga., wed Bruce Edwerd Dutton Dec. 6, 1991.

Gregory M. Michael has been promoted to senior programmer for Lowe's Cos., North Wilkesboro, N.C. Micheel R, Stack is now senior systems analyst, and Lerry C. Willigms is a technical consultant.

Deen Johneon is now mktg. mgr. for Georgia-Pacific's distribution div., Atlanta, Ga.

Rlchrrd M. Kruflnrn, Amerlcan Tools Coe., hac bccn promotod to v.p.-dietribution ecrvicec.

Butch Millcr is new to Martco Partncrchip, OSB div., Alexandria, La., ae ealcs mgr. ClilJones is now mktg. mgr. -SYP & treated for Georgia-Pacific'e dietribution div., Atlanta, Ga. John F. Reaor hae been promoted to group v.p.-timbcr. Herold L. Airin3ton and Roberl A. Schumecher have retired from thc board. Willlem A. Mrmrock, corp. dircctortaxes, and Kcnneth F. Khou4t, associate general couneel, succeed them on the board.

Bob Burt, Robinson Lumber, Savannah, Ga., has retired after 37 ycars in the business.

Micheet Steck is now senior systems nnalyst for Lowe's Cos., NorthWilkesboro, N.C.

Bob Horton and Dsrlene Davie have joined the sales forcc at Atlantic Trading, Birmingham, Al.

Rick Seddler is now in sales at Boca Supply, Boca Raton, Fl.

Tuck d'Oliveira, Timber Industries, Peachtree City, Ga., has been promoted to plywood sales mgr.

Andres Delgado is new to sales at Gulf South Forest Products, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.

Dale Seay has joined Woodland Resources, Spartanburg, S.C.

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John Taylor has been named pres. and c.o.o. of Hickson Corp., Atlanta, Ga.

Kerrie Flanagan is now director of merchandise payables at Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga. Chairman and ceo Bernard Marcus addressed graduate students in a business lecture at Florida Atlantic University.

Michael Kent Watkins, Home Depot, Nashville, Tn., married Leigh Ann Upchurch Feb. 15, 1992.

Calvin Knight, Yukon Lumber Co., Yukon, Ok., has retired after 23 yeas.

Ed Phillips has been appointed to head the Builders Association of Metropolitan Tulsa, Ok.

Greg Pannell, mgr., Pannell's Do-It Center, Glenpool, Ok., has been elected to the Glenpool Chamber of Commerce board.

South Can Fill Lumber Void

The south is the key to the country's timber supply, Temple Inland Forest hoducts Corp.'s forest group vice president Glenn A. Chancellor advised the annual conference of Resource Information Systems, lnc.

He recommends better management of non-industrial private forest to unlock the south's productive potential. "In the 12 states that constitute south-

James N. Haynie has been elected pres. and ceo ofChesapeake Hardwood Products, Chesapeake, Va., succeeding Eugene M. Myers.

Jeff 'Rocky' Rockenbach, reg. sales mgr., Glasteel Tennessee, Collierville, Tn., was named as a supplier div. council member to the National Frame Builders Association board of directors.

J. Howard 'Jody' Luck, chairman, Manassas Lumber Corp., Manassas, Va., has been named senior v.p.-planning/ merchandising for the Lester Group, Martinsville, Va.

Jim Black and Steve Snyder are now v.p.s of sales for Hickson Corp., Atlanta, Ga. Grady Brafford is mgr.-chemical sales and utility & heavy construction; Steve Shields, mgr.-licensee services; Kathleen Vidic, mgr.-quality assurance; em forestland, commercial timberland totals 182 million acres, about 4O% of the nation's total. These lands are among the most productive in the wodd, have an excellent infrastructure in place and arc90% privately owned," he said.

Net growth on southem forestland is well below potential because few nonindustrial private forest landowners can afford the time and investment required for the 30 year return on the investment, he maintains. He cited the Texas TRe (tree) foundation as an example of the type of subsidized assistanceneeded. Industry funded by assessments based on the consumption, it was established in 1981 to respond to the need for reforestationandhas distributed almost $3 million to area landowners. Most of the money has gone for tree planting.

Mike Barnes, mgr.-customer relations, and Bob Lattanzi, mgr.-fire retardant sales.

Mike McClelland will succeed Don Wolf as pres. and ceo of Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. when Wolf retires in October after 45 years with HWI.

Eldridge Prince, Weyerhaeuser, Hot Springs, Ar., is the new product mgr. for southern pine specialties & millwork.

Buddy Richards, dispatcher, Cofer Bros. Inc., Tucker, Ga., has retired after 40 years with the co. Other retirements: 37year-veteran Bonnie Goza, administrative asst. to pres. Gene Cofer, and bookkeeper Roma Lee Moran.

Titus A. Drum is the new credit mgr. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners llugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.