PERSONALS

Jim Precht, Weyerhaeuser Co., Carrollton, Tx., was a recent business visitor to Canada.

Hugh Shockley Jr. is a new lumber trader at Maxey-Bosshardt/Triangle Trading, Duluth, Ga. Peggy Pittman is now cargo accounts mgr.

Bruce Palmer, Cox Wood Preserving Co., Orangeburg, S.C., is now sales mgr.

Roy A. Smith, pres., Southern Wood Preserving, Inc., Hattiesburg, Ms., was recently named the state's "Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Bill Weger has been named communications director for the Hardwood Plywood Manufacturers Association, Reston, Va.

John H. Booher has joined Lexington Building Supply, Lexington, Ky.

Rod Didier, Eastex Forest Products. Houston, Tx., plans an Appalachian vacation in August.

Daniel M. Shadle has been promoted to asst. plant mgr. at Chesapeake Wood Treating Co.'s Fredericksburg, Va., operations.

Jim Olson has been named sales mgr. for J. M. Huber Corp.'s new OSB mill in Commerce, Ga. John Rogalski is v.p. of mktg./sales; Ken Benzmiller, inside sales, and Lisa Benoy, administrative asst.

Dave Fenner has joined Mayfair, Lafayette, La., as regional sales mgr.

Ray Albright has opened a sales office for Tar River Wood Products in Ramseur, N.C.

Ray Edge and Gene Poteet are new to Tom L. Davis Lumber Co., Oklahoma City, Ok.

Dan Pharris is now in sales at Keadle Lumber Enterprises, Thomaston, Ga.

Roy Spencer has joined the brokerage sales staff at American Lumber, Birmingham, Al., according to pres. Walter Russell.

Matt Layman is new to the sales team at Arling Lumber Co., Crescent Springs, Ky.

James Robert Baird Murray, PlyMart, Marietta, Ga., married Christina Darlene Morgan April 15. 1989.

Freddie Siewers III, R.A. Siewers Inc., Richmond, Va., and his wife, Betsy, celebrated the arrival ofa new daughter, 6 lb., 7 oz. Kathryn Anne, born April 17, 1989.

Dreama Ann Robbins. senior office clerk, Lowe's Hardware, Lenoir. N.C., married Joseph Michael Abernethy on April 15, 1989. Ronald Eugene Talley Jr., Lowe's, Thomasville, N.C., married Connie Christina Cantrell on May 20, 1989.

David Dail is now a lumber/building materials merchandiser at Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga.

Richard Mason, 84 Lumber, Winchester, Ky., was among the winneis in the chain's recent national contest for contractor sales reps. New co-mgrs.: Dave Epperson, Winchester; John Jones, Pulaski, Va.; Greg Viers, Kingsport, Va., and Darren Mclendon, Irondale, Al.

Frank Denny, Builders Square, was roasted at the Sth annual National City of Hope Hardware/Home Improvement Industry Dinner, along with Bernard Marcus, Home Depot; Robert Strickland, Lowe's, and Leonard G. Herring, Lowe's.

Gene Nelson, Georgia Pacific, has been elected chairman of the Plywood Paneling Council's executive committee, succeeding Robert Renfro, Weyerhaeuser. Diane Montoya, States Industries, replaces T. C. Manous, Plywood Panels, Inc., as marketing committee chairman, and Jerry Hood, Plywood Panels, Inc., continues as contributors' committee chairman.

Michael A. Vidan is now v.p.-roofing at Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga. Michael O. Blackwell now heads the building products transportation div.l Brent Holmes is branch mgr., Columbia, S.C., and Tom Inglehart, branch mgr., Hillsborough, N.C.

Robert Watson Long, outside sales rep/ dispatcher, Columbia Lumber, Columbia, S.C., married Karen Leaphart Smith April22,l989. Co-worker Herbert Erwin Gaskins III married Sharon Lynn Schumpert the same day.

Mark Turner is the new co-mgr. at 84 Lumber, Richmond, Ky. Lee Coates, Greensboro, N.C., was named his store's Superstar of the Year. Whing Tip Shu has opened a new Chinese import dept. at MungusFungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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