PERS NALS

George Hafner is a new western lumber and plywood buyer at Allied Building Stores. Monroe. La.

Brett Olson has joined the sales team at Mid-America Cedar, Charlotte, N.C.

Dan Hooley has been promoted to outside sales at 84 Lumber Co.. Radcliff. Ky. Mark D. Woody is now mgr. in Hickory, N.C. New co-mgrs. include Robert Eckert, Raleigh, N.C., and Kevin Shotwell, La Marque, Tx.

Robert E. Guido has been named director of retail marketing for Sentry Hardware Corp., according to Ronald A. Pink, managing director.

R.A. "Bunky" Helm, owner of the four-store La. chain Helm Paint & Supply, will lead a Sept. 18-21 Southern Decorating Products Association seminar in Williamsburg, Va.

Herb McKinney has been promoted to mgr. of Scotty's Hardware, Lynn Haven, Fl. Glenn Mimbs is mgr. of the new Fort Walton Square, Fl., store, and Al Hartman, asst. mgr., Homestead, Fl. Chuck Cartwright, associate mgr., Brooksville, Fl., won $5,000 in Scotty's quarterly "The Customer Is Our Boss" employee drawing.

John Grace is new to Kokanee Lumber, Fort Worth, Tx.

David Webb is now with Valley Lumber Sales, Knoxville, Tn.

Albert F. Kimmel, v.p./gen. mgr., Quaker Maid, has been named pres. of the National Kitchen Cabinet Association. H.J. Scheirich III is now v.p.; Tony Bour, treas., and Joseph W. Nussbaum, immediate past pres.

Steve Kaplan, So. Fl. area salesman, AEG Power Tool Corp., earned the company's 1987 President's Club Award.

Dave Britten is a new sales rep for N.C. and Va. at Irvington-Moore, Winston-Salem, N.C.

David W. Christmts has been appointed a sales v.p. at CooperTools, Apex, N.C., according to Edwrrd E. Weadock, v.p. of sales & marketing.

Curtis Roberts is heading Vaughan & Sons' new Fort Worth. Tx.. sales ofhce.

Gene McKinney, Tindell's Builders Supply, Knoxville, Tn., is the new chairman of the Young Executives Society (YES) of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association.

Jimmy Jones has been promoted to marketing administrator at Visador Co., Jasper, Tx. Butch Fairchild is now national sales mgr., and Richard Lowenthal succeeds him as Southeast regional mgr., Atlanta, Ga.

Cathy Marx, engineered systems markets mgr., Southern Forest Products Association, New Orleans, La., and her husband, Doug, are the parents of 9 lb., 2 oz. Ryan Douglas, born April 20, 1988.

Mark Greenlee, Webb Building Centers, Lonoke, Ar., has completed the Mid-America Lumbermens Association's basic construction and material estimating course.

Blair Gaynor has rejoined the sales team at Ajayem Lumber, Charlotte, N.C. New to the staff are Jill Lundgren and Jeff Misseri.

David Zeagler is the new Tx. architectural rep for Azrock Floor Products, San Antonio, Tx., succeeding Monte Curl, who has been transferred.

Larry M. Parkin has been appointed exec. v.p. for warehouse & grocery operations at Kmart Corp., overseeing Builders Square, San Antonio, Tx.. and other cos.

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Peter Jones is now Nicholson and Crescent brand mgr. at CooperTools, Apex, N.C., according to Frank Tooke, v.p., marketing. Eric C. Helms will manage Wiss, Plumb and H.K. Porter lines.

Alton L. Rigby has been named manufacturing & quality control coordinator for the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, Pensacola, Fl.

John Rogalski is now director of marketing & sales for J.M. Huber Corp.'s OSB plant in Commerce, Ga.

Jim Holley is now corporate builder sales asst. at Scotty's, Winter Haven, Fl. New store mgrs. include Scott Blocker, Lake City, Fl., and Rick Wisniewsky, Newberry Rd., Gainesville, Fl. New asst. mgrs. are Richard Spell, Newberry Rd.; John Jagenow, l3th St., Gainesville; Art Slmon, Bayonet Point, Fl., and Bill Belcher, Brooksville, Fl.

Mid Kitchens has resigned as membership committee chairman of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, Memphis, Tn. Normrn Hrnsen Jr. succeeds him, and Mike Caswell is the new HMA membership director.

Jeffrey Allen Foster has joined CertainTeed Corp., Nashville, Tn., as territory mgr. of the southern region Carolina's district.

George Herndon is new to the sales team at BiWood Flooring, Memphis, Tn., covering Ar., La., Ok. and Tx.

Michael Caswell has joined the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, Memphis, Tn., as membership director.

Barry Hammet is new to sales at East Coast Lumber Co., Asheboro, N.C. Charles Andrus, Potlatch Corp., is back in Warren, Ar., after a week's trip to Oklahoma.

Bob Edwards, Lee Roy Jordan Redwood Lumber Co., Dallas, Tx., was appointed Deputy Supreme Nine of the Metroplex Hoo-Hoo Club.

Laurn Champ, Mid-America Lumbermens Association, has retired as Ok. & Ks. regional mgr.

Bill Pelon, mgr., Lowe's, Wilmington, N.C., has been named Manager of the Year by the hrm.

Terry Hagen has joined Slaughter Bros., Dallas, Tx., transferring from parent co. Furman Lumber's recently closed Denver oflice.

James R. "Rick" Crrter Jr. is new to Southeastern sales at Variform, Inc. Bud Wrlthall is selling treated wood for Anthony Timberlands, Bearden, Ar.

John Masaschi has been appointed v.p. of Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s newly formed industrial wood products division. John W. Churchill is group mgr., particleboard & MDF; Darryl E. Coons, group mgr., hardboard; Norman A. Voss, sales & marketing mgr.; Elliott Savage, sales mgr., western operations, and Dave Schmitt, sales mgr., eastern operations, Orson Buggy has been named to the transportation dept. at MungusFungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.