PERS NALS

M. Ronald Helms, senior v.p./treas., Roper Brothers Lumber Co., Midlothian. Va.. has been elected chairman of the National Association of Credit Management.

Donna Mae Sexton, Paty Co., Greenville, Tn., is engaged to marry Ronald L. Lowery Aug. 18, 1990.

Ty Billings is now store mgr. of Lowe's, Montgomery, Al. Carol E. Perdue, Lowe's, North Wilkesboro, N.C., was named Employee of the Quarter. Lowe's accountants Kimberly Ann Stakias and Carlton Edward Absher recently passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination.

Dick Lerch has joined BMA, Inc., Greenville, S.C.

Edward P. Mooers is new to Teco/Lumberlok as v.p., sales & mktg.

Henry Seasholes, Pease Industries, has been appointed brand mgr. for EverStrait Fiberglass Door Systems. Other new brand mgrs.: Thomas Fening, steel door systems, and Robert Mc{rone, Registry Fine Wood Entranceway line.

William Petrie and Roxann Hill, Tech Building Products, Orlando, Fl., recently completed an eight-week estimating course sponsored by the Florida Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association. Other new graduates: Loretta Bosco, Kim Joseph, David Galgano, John Mannino, Thomas Whitmore, Thomas Fluegel, Pat Foster and John Burns, Thomas Lumber Co.; John Sawyer, Stephen Angeline, William Weinberg and Anthony Jevitt, East Coast Lumber; John Worrell Sr., Randy Worrell and Thomas Phillips, Wildwood Ace Hardware, and Mark Rice, Lawrence Clark, Robert Roberts and Rikki Bolick, Adams Building Material.

Mark Gallant has resigned as legislative director, National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, Washington, D.C., to join the D.C.-based Chlorine Institute.

David R. Perna, Briggs Industries, Tampa, Fl., has been promoted to corporate mgr., safety & environmental control.

Rick Kottwitz is the new distributor advisor at RedMax, Norcross, Ga.

Ron Vergakis has been nanred eastern div. sales mgr. at Weyerhaeuser Engineered Strand Products Division, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Cathy Marx, engineered systenrs markets mgr., Southern Forest Products Association, New Orleans, La., and her husband, Doug Olson, are the proud parents of 9 lb. 5 oz. Kevin Frederick Olson, born June 24, 1990.

Leonard R. Turner is the new store nrgr. of Lowe's, Chattanooga, Tn. Joel Johnson has been nanred nrgr. of Beaver Lumber Co., Beaver, Ok., succeeding Bob Burkitt, who returns to Thomas, Ok., to manage Thomas Lumber Co.

Kenny Thompson, Hughes Luntber Co., Shawnee, Ok., nrarried Tama Coursey, Buford White Lumber Co., Shawnee, May 4, 1990.

Charlie Fidler, Plywood Panels Inc., New Orleans, La., was nanred Sales Rep/Supplier of the Year by the Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association.

Fred Omundson, Chenrical Specialties, Inc. (CSI), Charlotte, N.C., participated in a recent panel discussion on fire retardant treated wood sponsored by the Florida Lunrber & Building Material Dealers Association, along with Steve Shields, Hickson Corp.; Ray lV.Iiller, Hoover Treated Wood Products, and Jack Kozak, Osnrose Wood Preserving.

Robert Medina is now nrgr. of 84 Lunrber. Plainview. Tx.

Joe Hurd, purchasing director, Pixley Lumber Co., Claremore, Ok., is back after attending Servistar's nrarket in Baltinrore, Md.

Ike Epstein, owner, Dr. lke's Honre Center, Laredo, Tx., was nanred the city's Small Businessman of the Year.

Nancy Roberts, bookkeeper, Bownran Lumber, Lubbock, Tx., took second place at the Lubbock Lunrbernrens Association golf tournanrent.

Bob Mason, v.p., Mason Lunrber, Montgomery, Al., is broker for the firm's new Ponrpano Beach, Fl., office.

Richard Urich has joined Dallas Wholesale Building Supply, Dallas, Tx., as direct lumber trading nrgr.

Thomas Palmer is the new operations nrgr. for Chesapeake Corp., Richnrond, Va.

James Dolbear, Ruffin & Payne, Inc., Richmond, Va., has been elected pres. of the Virginia Jaycees.

Rhonda Cheryl Thacker, Honre I)epot, Atlanta, Ga., is engaged to nlarry William Gary Jackson. Joseph Frederick Peterka, Honre Depot, Roswell, Ga., and Lisa Ellen Edwards were nrarried in a June wedding.

Kerry Capel, CMC Building Supply, Mount Gilead, N.C., won a new Chevy truck in a recent Stanley Tools' sweepstakes.

Tony Bour, StarMark, lnc., has been elected pres. ol the Kitchen (labinet Manufacturers Association, succeeding H.J. Scheirich IIl, H.J. Scheirich Co.

Ana Sinn is a new first aid consultant to Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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