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It's notJust lreated lumber anymore ...

Tony Vanatta is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber, Oak Ridge, Tn. Other new co-mgrs.: Pat Henderson, Mount Pleasant, S.C., and John Pendergrass, Kingsport, Tn.

Allyn Howe, director of government affairs for the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, has been promoted to v.p.-government affairs. Vicki Worden has been promoted to director of public affairs. Meghan Boland will replace Worden as legislative assistant.

Jim Smith has been named mgr. of Lowe's new Elizabethtown, Ky., superstore. Matt Eckerle is operations mgr.

Mike McClelland, pres./ceo, Hardware Wholesalers Inc.. has been named chairman-elect of the National Association of Wholesalers-Distributors.

Charles A. Banks, Ferguson Enterprises, Newport News, Va., is lst vice chairman, and Byron Potter, Dallas Wholesale Builders Supply, Dallas, Tx., secretary.

Emmet P. Vaughn, Sr., Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville, Tn., is celebrating his 70th year in the industry.

Gary Esch has been promoted to manufacturing mgr. of the gypsum & paper group at Celotex Corp., Jacksonville, Fl. Other promotions: James Pieczynski, manufacturing mgr.-ceilings group, Meridian, Ms.; Raymond Stattery, manufacturing mgr.-foam plastics group, Elizabethtown, Ky., and Texarkana, Ar.; Phillip Menk, plant mgr., Marrero, La.; Terry Stoddard, plant mgr., Meridian, and Greg Cherry, regional manufacturing mgr.roofing products div., overseeing Birmingham, Al., and Goldsboro, N.C., plants.

Nick Owens has retired from L.R. Nelson Corp. after five years.

Jerry Smith, Smith Building Supply, Inc., Denham Springs, La., was named 1995 Large Business of the Year by the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce.

Jim Mathieu is managing Empire Wholesale Lumber Co.'s new Rockville, Md., branch office, with traders Walter W. Fountain and Richard S. Stoykewich.

John C. Fitzgerald is now senior v.p.mktg. at Garden Way, Inc.

Suzanne Calardo has been appointed national accounts mgr, for Pease Industries, Inc.

Andrew J. Scott has been promoted to v.p.-sales & mktg. at Ledco, Inc., Shelbyville, Ky.

Boomer Esiason, New York Jet's quarterback, has been named 1995 True Value NFL Man of the Year.

Dan Clossey has been promoted to v.p.sales & product service for S-B Power Tool Co., succeeding Storm Bailey, who retired after 24 vears with the company.

Allan Santiago has been named store mgr. of the new Home Depot in Hickory, N.C. Asst. mgrs.: Emilie Strantz, Keith Scott, Joey Gilkey, Chris Mangino and David White. Matt L. Hormer is store mgr. of the new Maryville, Tn., location.

Jason Booth is new to inside sales at C&S Door Corp., Christianburg, Va., replacing Elwood Smart when he retires in May.

Daniel G. Stuart, ex-Newell, is the new v.p.-retail sales for CertainTeed Corp.

Frank Day is now gen. mgr. at Olympic Manufacturing, Wilkesboro, N.C.

Suzanne Rene Testerman, Lowe's Cos., Mount Pleasant, S.C., wed Edwin Wilhoit Jan. 6. 1996. Brian Richard Buis, Myrtle Beach, Fl., is engaged to marry Windy Caroline Buffkin March 16.

Glenn Wilson recently celebrated his llth anniversary with Hoover Treated Wood Products, Thomson, Ga.

Phillip McGlass served as bartender at the recent Contractors' Night at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Ilugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Wholesalers Trek To Desert

The North American Wholesale Lumber Association will "Look Beyond the Horizon" during its 104th