SOUTHERTI ASSOCIATION

Specific details on educational seminars, golf, fishing and tennis tournanrents as well as boat rides, tours and other activities will be available soon.

Ylrglnla Bulldlng Materlal Associatlon has approved a membership drive continuing through Aug. l.

Membership chairman George Haw Itr chairs the contest which offers free registrations to the VBMA 1993 Management Conference in Virginia Beach as prizes.

Dealers or associate members signing up one dealer member and one associate member will receive one free spouse regishation. Those who sign up two dealer members or three associate members will receive one free member registration. Recruiting three dealer members and one associate member or one dealer and fbur associate members will win free regisbation for a couple.

Florlda Lumber & Bulldlng Materlal Dealers Assoclatlon concluded its 1993 Membership Football Challenge Bowl with 23 new members.

Florida Gators took first place with 66 points; All Americans were second with

42-ll2 points. Membership comrnittee chairman Brian Blocker was the most valuable player with 29 points for the All Americans. FLBMDA staff member Terry Jalbert placed second with 21 points.

Other high point performers: Rick Goolsby, 15; Jack Monroe and Sam Dunn, l4 each; Jay Leahy, lO-112; Barbara Powell, 7. Tom Joyner became eligible for induction into the Ambassadors Club at the FLBMDA annual convention in the fall.

Prizes and awards will be presented June 11 during the sunmer management reheat at the PGA Resort and Spa, Palm Beach Gardens. Florida Gators will defend their title in the Fall Football Challenge the week of Oct. 18.

Tbe association will celebrate its 73rd anniversary Sept. 16-18 during the annual "Partners for Progress" convention and buying show at the Marriott World Center, Orlando. Lynn Michaelis, Weyerhaeuser Co., and Kip Howlett, Jr., Georgia-Pacific Corp., will discuss "The Future of the Forest Products Indushy," according to Terry L. Jalbert director, meetings and publications.

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