PERSONALS

Gene Brown, BiWood Flooring, Memphis, Tn., has been promoted to v.p., flooring div., according to pres. Robert C. Brown.

Marshall Cantrell, pres., Cash Builders Supply, Melbourne, Fl., will be a panelist at the National Hardware Show, Aug. l3-16 in Chicago, ll.

Nathan Morton, senior v.p./operations, The Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., left the company to join a computer products retailer.

Kenneth Jorgensen is now v.p. of operations at Igloo Products Co., Houston, Tx.

Debbie Paulsel is managing a new Huntsville. Tx.. sales office lor Georgia Timber Specialist, College Park, Ga.

Fred Knox is the new Ky. reg. sales mgr. for Hardware Wholesalers. lnc.. replacing Bob Bradley, who resigned due to illness.

Vincent Vassallo is now GAF district sales mgr. for Tampa, Fl., according to Donna Glisson.

Mell S. Tolleson Jr. has been named exec. v.p. of Mellco, Inc., Perry, Ga. Richard W. Danenberg is now v.p.. mktg.; Randall D. Loggins, v.p., procurement; W. Sandy Trotter, v.p., specialty products development; Douglas E. Walter, v.p., sales, and David Harbin, plant mgr., Athens, Al.

Al Cron has been named southern pine lumber & plywood market development mgr. at Boise Cascade, Fort Worth, Tx.

John Masaschi, v.p., industrial wood products, Georgia-Pacific, has been elected pres. of the National Particleboard Association. Jack Sweeny, Temple-lnland, is now v.p., and Royce Stanford, Weyerhaeuser, sec./ treas. Executive committee members-at-large: Jack O'Leary, Union Camp; Bob Carter, Boise Cascade, and Richard Krull, Merillat Industries.

Samuel J. Heyman, chairman & ceo, GAF Corp., has been elected to the board of directors, along with vice chairman/cao James T. Sherwin, attorney Ronnie F. Heyman, senior v.p./sec. Irving Kagan, and exec. v.p.s Carl R. Eckardt, John M. Sergey and Heinn F. Tomfohrde III.

Samuel D. Constan has been promoted to pres. and ceo of DAP Inc.

Bill Simmons is the new sales mgr. for Scotch Lumber Co., Fulton, Al. Dennis Drinkard is now asst. sales mgr.

Chuck Lamping has joined the sales team at Triangle Trading Inc., Duluth, Ga.

Pat Contestabile, Eastex Forest Products. Houston. Tx.. was feted with a birthday party for his 55th (?) birthday, according to Rod Didier.

Charles F. Allen, Nashville Wholesale Moulding, Nashville, Tn., is retiring lrom the firm he founded 32 years ago.

Conrad Deal, Potlatch Corp., Warren, Ar., is back after a Hot Springs area vacation.

Rusty Fields has been named mgr. of Economy Lumber, Jones, Ok.

Roger Debnam has been promoted to branch mgr. of Mid-Atlantic Cedar, Charlotte, N.C. Bill Hurst is now asst. mgr.

Bill Johnson hasjoined the sales staffat ProfitMaster Computer Systems, Inc., Austin, Tx., serving So. Tx.

Marvin Fedro, mktg. mgr., Ideal Co., Waco, Tx., recently celebrated his 40th anniversary with the firm, according to Steve Rowell.

Jim Collins, Diamond Lumber. Dallas. Tx., will help judge the packaging exposition at the National Hardware Show, Aug. l3-16 in Chicago. ll., along with Phil Levy, Levy Lumber & Home Center, Louisville, Ky.; James Erke, Orgill Bros. & Co., Memphis, Tn., Robert L. Swanson, Scotty's, Winter Haven, Fl., and Bob Anderson, Vaughn Hayes and Thomas W. Smith, Lowe's Cos., North Wilkesboro, N.C.

J. William Lee, pres., Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Co.. has been named c.e.o., succeeding C. A. "Neil" Kane, who continues as chairman.

Michael Leonard Kinchen, Home Depot, Jacksonville, Fl., married Christina Nichole Roebuck on June 3, l 989.

Roger Clemmons has been transferred to Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber, Paris, Tx., as gen. mgr.

Steve O'Roarke is now parts & warehouse mgr. for RedMax, Norcross, Ga.

David Cain has been appointed v.p., general counsel & sec. for Heil-Quaker Corp., La Vergne, Tn., according to pres. Harry Forrest.

Angela Christine Burdette, Wickes Lumber, Greenwood, S.C., married Billy Ray Morgan on May 20, 1989.

Larry Johnson, E. C. Barton & Co., Jonesboro, Ar., was top salesman in a recent Chamber of Commerce telemarketing membership drive.

Chuck Becker has been named area mgr. for 84 Lumber, Jacksonville, Al. Ed Mullins is now managing the. Marrero. La.. store. and new comgrs. include Jim Chest, Lake City, Fl.: Matt Ward, Harrisonburg, Va., and Neil Bohon, Troutville, Va.

Bill Keene, mgr., 84 Lumber, Middlesboro, Ky., has returned from a Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, vacation, part of the firm's 84 Globetrotters travel incentive program. Contractor sales contest winners included Richard Mason, Winchester, Va.; Cary Thoelke, Riviera Beach, Fl.; Gary Shearer, Louisville, Ky., and Steve Dernehl, Houston, Tx.

Martin Oliver is the new mgr. of Lowe's, Warner Robins, Ga., replacing Paul Johnson, who is now mgr. in Valdosta, Ga. Bill Leeks, just named Southeast region Manager of the Year as mgr. in Rock Hill, S.C., has been transferred to Mooresville, N.C., as mgr.

Richard Lewis Mikles, Lowe's Cos., Thomasville. N.C.. married Robin Renee Gibson on April 29,1989.

Steve Hardin, Georgia-Pacific millwork/ specialty center, Atlanta, Ga., has received the 1988 Presidents' Club Award. Recently named Employees of the Month include Keith Daughtry, outside sales rep, Tallahassee, Fl; Bruce Keith. inside sales. Jackson. Ms.; Kevin Keith, inside sales, Atlanta, Ga.; Ronald Scott, metal products mgr., Houston, Tx., and Marvin Smith, operations mgr., Richmond, Va.

Jack S. Harbin is now director of export sales for Westvaco Development Corp., Summerville and Cameron, S.C.

Galen Weaber, Walter H. Weaber Sons, Lebanon, Pa., has been elected pres. and chairman of the board of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, Memphis, Tn. Paul Barringer, Coastal Lumber Co., Weldon, N.C., lst v.p.; Johnny Schaffhauser, Anderson-Tully Co., Memphis, 2nd v.p., and Ron Cleaver, Mead Hardwoods, Stevenson, Al., and E. J. Spratlin, T&S Sawmill Co., Clarendon. Ar.. exec. committee members.

Jerry A. Joyner has been named JennAir regional mgr. f<lr Tx. and Ok. R. Joseph Goode is now covering Al., La., Ar. and Tn.

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