PERSONALS

Formby Hardin is the new mgr. of Southern Builders Supply Co., Valdosta, Ga.

G.W. "Tack" Baker has joined the sales team at El Paso Millwork, Canutillo, Tx.

Greg Weeks and Jerry Weeks are new to the Winnfield. La.. office of Alamo Forest Products, San Antonio, Tx.

Howard L. "Buddy" Briggs III, systems analyst, Lowe's Cos., North Wilkesboro, N.C., married Gayla Dawn McGee on June 12, 1988' William Daniel Day, commodity trader, Lowe's, married Anita Pauline Perry on June 25. Larry Dean Walker, sales, Lowe's, WinstonSalem, N.C., married Kari Leanne Pennell on June 25, 1988.

Jim Bradford, Bradford Lumber Co., Monroe. La.. has returned to work after a lengthy recovery flrom a car accident.

Roy Gardner, O'Malley Building Materials Center, El Paso, Tx., recentlY celebrated his 30th anniversary with the hrm.

John S. Boyd has been named gen. mgr. and v.p. of AEG Power Tool CorP.

Donna Davis is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber Co., Plainview, Tx.

Phyllis Walker has been promoted to hardware buyer at Scotty's, Winter Haven, Fl. At Scotty's Hardware Stores in Fl., David Purcell is now mgr. in Fernandina Beach; Drew Richardson, mgr., Emerson St., Jacksonville; Stephen LeBar, mgr., St. Johns Bluff Rd., Jacksonville, and Terry Smith, ffigr., Dunn Ave., Jacksonville.

Stephen C. Neal has joined the Southern Forest Products AssociationinMemphis, Tn., as regional market mgr. for Tn., KY., Al., Ms., La., Ar. and Tx., replacing Jim Gogolski.

Thomas W. Payne, Payne & Gunderson Lumber Co., Petersburg, Va., Plans to retire Dec.3l, 1988, after 39 years in the industry.

Freeman Spencer, Massey Building Supply, Richmond, Va., is recuperating from a knee replacement oPeration.

David Castillo has joined Steve Drangsholt and Arnold Smith on the sales staff of Mouldings & Millwork Inc., El Paso, Tx., according to George Kavooras, pres.

David S. Mc{lung, McClung Lumber Co.. Salem, Va., has retired after 35 years as pres.

Joe Vinson, Lyons Lumber & Coal Co., De Quincy, La., is home recuperating after surgery.

Tammy Smith, daughter of Bob and Janet Armer, Southern Components, Inc., Shreveport, La., has been accepted into medical school.

Grover and Murlene Adkins, Bolinger Lumber & Supply Co., Bossier City, La., are the proud grandparents of 7 lb., I oz. Thomas Weston Brantley, born June 15, 1988.

Steve and Becky Buller, Buller Building Materials, Ville Platte, La., are the happy parents of 8 lb. Steven Alexander Buller, born June 30, 1988.

Ron Massa has been named asst. product mgr., particleboard, at TempleEastex Inc.. Diboll. Tx.

Maxine Niebling has retired from the North American WholesAle Lumber Association, which she joined as a "temporary" in 1955.

Robert P. Cockroft, Southern Star Lumber Co., McKenzie, Tn., testified on behalf of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, Memphis, Tn., at the OSHA hearings on wood dust exposure limits.

Ken Blair has been transferred to the moulding dept. at Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga. Artie Shidler is now director of millwork and specialty distribution.

Alec Beck, pres., Stripling-Blake Lumber Co., Austin, Tx., has been aPpointed to the executive committee for the 1989 Home Center Industry Conference, along with Arthur Blank, pres., Home DePot, Atlanta, Ga.t John Kiss, mktg. v.P., The PatY Co., Piney Flats, Tn., and Michael R. Morton, senior v.p., develoPment, Builders Square, San Antonio, Tx.

Jack Barger has rejoined UniversalRundle as Southern sales mgr. New district sales mgrs.: Larry Johnson, Ky.; David Mann, N.C. and S.C.; Ron Conner, Al., Ar., Fl., KY., Ms. and Tn.; Jerry Robinson, La., Ms. and Tx., and H.L. "Nick" OakleY Jr., Ok., Tx. and Ar. Harold Hightower, Southeast reg. sales mgr., was selected as Universal-Rundle Regional Manager of the Year.

Michael D. Long is a new inside sales rep at Weyerhaeuser, Richmond, Va.

Jim Higginbotham, warehouse supervisor, Georgia-Pacific, Birmingham, Al., has retired after 20 years with the co. Ed Carraway, outside salesman, Greenville. N.C.. has been inducted into the Atlantic Christian College Athletic Hall of Fame. Kenneth Peterson, Atlanta, Ga., has been named pres. of the Forest Products Research Society executive board.

Carl W. McElheny has joined the wood treating div. of Chesapeake Corp., West Point, Va., as a lumber buyer.

Jon Rawlins, Robert Bowden Inc., Atlanta, Ga., has completed a nine week selling & customer relations course using a National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association training program.

Chris Sapp is now asst. mgr. of Scotty's, New Port Richey, Fl. New mgrs. include Bobby Colvin, Clewiston, Fl., and Leo Morrell, Port Charlotte, Fl.

Clarence Pearce is managing the new Lowe's in Smithfield, N.C. C.L. Sutton is retail sales mgr.; Bruce Garner, contractor sales mgr.; Sue Byrd, office and credit mgr., and Keith Jones, warehouse mgr.

Douglas Marshall Sulc, Lowe's, Washington, N.C., married Kimberly Dawn Tetterton on June 25, 1988. Edgar Rogerson DuRant, Lowe's, Orangeburg, S.C., married Wynn Dee Weeks on July 16, 1988.

Joseph Cicotello, outside sales rep, Georgia-Pacific, Manassas, Va., has been named northeast region Employee of the Quarter. Winners in the southwest region are Bryan Kitchen, warehouse supervisor, Houston, Tx., and Carol March, administrative supervisor, Memphis, Tn.; and in the southeast, Donnie Young, cut-to-size floreman, Greensboro, N.C.; GarY Boyles, outside sales reP, Atlanta, Ga., and Jimmy Tucker, outside sales rep, Orlando, Fl.

David Kitchen has been named Southeast region director of sales for Weslock.

Eddie Strawn has been added to the sales team at Hixson Lumber Sales, Inc., Plumerville, Ar., according to Bob Hixson.

Roger K. Wright, senior v.p., real estate & development, Hechinger Co., has been elected to the board of directors, along with Herbert J. Broner and David O. Maxwell.

Russell Insko is now asst. mgr. o[ Scotty's, Boynton Beach, Fl. Other new asst. mgrs. are KiPP Reck, Hypoluxo, Fl., and Frank KennedY, Spring Hill, Fl.

George Sharp, v.p., Florida-Pacific Lumber Co., Inc., Miami, Fl., has retired. Vince Vertulli succeeds him.