PERSONAIS \,\e'vo gono to

Terry Clark has been named general sales mgr. at Hunt Plywood Co., Ruston. La. Mike Wardlow is now asst. sales mgr.-plywood; Tom McKinley, plywood sales; Chuck Lamping, asst. sales mgr.-lumber sales, and Jerry Brucia, operations analyst.

Carol B. Tome, ex-v.p./treas of Riverwood International, has joined Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., as v.p./treas. Terence L. Smith is now senior v.p.logistics/imports.

Catherine Imus is now director of communications for the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, Alexandria, Va.

Frank Kicklighter has resigned as market development mgr. after l3 years with CSI, Charlotte, N.C., to join Troy Corp. as market mgr. for wood applications.

Gregory Hewes has been promoted to controller for Celotex Corp.'s Memphis, Tn., roofing products plant.

Sita Monti is the new mgr. of market research & economic planning for the Jim Walter Corp., Tampa, Fl.

John Robert Krause, previously with Glidden, has joined Wolman Wood Care Products, as sales rep for Tx.

Les Schreihart, Wm. Zinsser & Co., Inc., has been appointed southeastern regional sales mgr. for Bulls Eye products, overseeing Fl., La., Ms., Al., Ga., Tn., N.C. and S.C.

Ronald Young has been reelected to a three-year term on the board of review of the American Lumber Standard Committee.

Tom L. Walker, millwork dept. mgr., Lowe's, Lafayette, Ga., is engaged to wed Jean L. Robinson July l. David Christian King, Lexington, Ky., married Deanna Sue Walters March 18.

Jeffrey Stewart Brown, Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., wed Jennifer Ashlyn Stuckey May 13, 1995. Peter Bartholomew, Atlanta, married Kelly LeAngelia Ruff Feb. 18.

Kaye Ottick is new to the planning dept. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners flugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Carolina Builders Buys T. R. Hopson

Carolina Builders Corp., Raleigh, N.C., has acquired Thomas R. Hopson-Broker, Inc., Marietta, Ga.-based manufacturer and distributor of windows, doors and other building materials.

Founded in 1973, Hopson has four branches in the Atlanta area (Marietta, Gwinnett, Fairburn, Forsyth), a recently constructed 200,000+ sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Acworth, Ga., and a distribution center in Charlotte, N.C. Sales last year were $130 million.

"The Hopson acquisition is an extension of our current business activities directed toward the professional contractor," said a Carolina Builders spokesperson, "and allows us to enter one of the largest housing and construction markets in the country." In addition to the Atlanta metro area. other accessible markets include Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tn.; Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Fl., and Birmingham, Al.

Louisiana Dealers Busy After Floods

Southern Louisiana dealers report employees. "We all closed. No one heavy business following torrential could get to us," explained David storms that left five people dead and Wells, Hill-Behan Lumber, Slidell. hundreds of homes and businesses Many firms also lost power and flooded in New Orleans and eight sur- phone service. rounding parishes.

Businesses reopened the next day, Dumping up to l8 inches of rain in meeting high demand for drywall, six hours, the deluge forced many sheetrock, insulation, flooring, carpet, yards to close May 9, with flooded moulding, water pumps and other roads blocking off customers and cleaning products.