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Don Mrgruder has been named mgr. o[ Wickes Lumber Co., Pascagoula, Ms.

Cllff Rlng has joined the management team at Wholesale Wood Products. l)othan. Al.

l,es Hegen, chairman, pres. and c.e.o.. Wickes Lumber, has resigned. Joe Rosen is interim head.

Frenk Gllbert. owner. Gilbert Lumber & Supply Co., Prescott. Ar., is recuperating after heart bypass surgery.

M ark Rey, National l"orest Products Association, has been appointed executive director of the American l:orest Resource Alliance.

Meurice Anderson, receiving supervisor. Lowe's. West Columbia. S.C.. married Sandra Elaine Brown July 15, 1989. On the same day, Jill Marie Myers, Rocky Mount, N.C., wed Nelson Ray Winstead.

Rod Didier, Eastex Forest Products, Houston, Tx., and his family vacationed recently in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

Patrick J. Behan has been named c.e.o. of Hill-Behan Lumber Co., succeeding W. L. Behan, Jr., who remains chairman of the board.

Robin R. Wildermuth. Proctor & Gamble Lumber Sales & Mfg., Memphis, Tn., has been transferred to Barnesville, Ga., as dryside operations mgr. Kim D. Wilkinson succeeds Wildermuth in lumber sales in Memphis, according to lumber sales mgr. Peter Albano.

Jeff Crouch is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber. Riviera Beach. Fl.

Harry W. Sherman has resigned as corp. senior v.p. and pres. of Manville Forest Products, West Monroe, La. Bill Morrow is now exec. v.p. and replaced as gen. mgr. ofthe wood products div. by Steve Clark.

Wayne Nalls, v.p.-mktg., Diamond Lumber, Carrolton, Tx., and James Collins, v.p.-merchandising, have left the co.

Charlene Lynn Roby, Wickes Lumber, Goldsboro, N.C., married Jeffrey Alan Newcomb on June 4, 1989.

T. Marshall Hahn Jr., Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., has been named CEO of the Year for the forest products industry for the fifth time by The Wall Street Transcripl.

Bill McManus, Tampa International, Tampa, Fl., is now v.p. - panel sales.

llrnle Rabrlais is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber. New Orleans. La. New mgrs.: Eddle Mrrtln. S. Nashville, Tn.: Jeff Shrlver, llarrisonburg, Va., and Mrrtin Haskell, Newport News. Va.

M. Ronald Helms, senior v.p. and treas., Roper llros. Lumber ('o., Petersburg, Va., has been named national chairman-elect of the National Association of Credit Management.

J. Robert Harte. v.p. of human resources. llowater lnc.. (lalhoun. Tn.. has retired after 25 years with the co. Asst. v.p. Edwin H. Beaver lll succeeds him.

David Pearson Nestor, Plymart Lumber Co., Marietta, Ga.. married Carla Elizabeth Holt Aug. 5, 1989.

Tim Stillwell, Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., has been promoted to group mgr. of specialty operations & development. C. Cory Elliott is now asst. group mgr., pine plywoodl Harry W. Rogers, group mgr., Southern hardwood sawmills. and Ronald L. McMahon, group mgr., softwood Iumber.

Curt Miller has been named director of the builder's hardware dept. at Causeway Lumber Co., l'ort Lauderdale, Fl., according to M. Scott Whiddon, pres.

Raymond Holoman is the new v.p. of the contractors div. of McCoy Lumber Co.. Greensboro. N.C.

Randy Loren has been appointed home territory mgr. of Benchmark Doors, Fredericksburg, Va.

Ralph Wilson has retired as pres. of the decorative products group of Premark lnternational alter I 8 years as pres. of subsidiary Ralph Wilson Plastics. Bobby Dillon succeeds him. Randy Jensen is a new mktg. specialist, and Art Dingee, product mgr., compact forming laminates.

Peter C. Browning is the new pres. and c.e.o. of Gold Bond Building Products, Charlotte, N.C., according to chairman John P. Hayes. Ken R. Reiswig, Gold Bond sales rep, Dallas. Tx.. has been honored with the lst annual President's Award.

Carol Stafford, Madill Lumber Co., Madill. Ok.. has been inducted into the Sand Bass Festival Hall of Fame. as one of the co-founders of the festival.

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Ken Flelds and Tlm Mltchell. Lowe's, ('ookeville, Tn.. are celebrating their 5th anniversary with the co, Strey l,eon Somers, Lowe's. Reidsville. N.('.. married l,eslle Renee Chrtmon May 27. 1989. Chrrles A. Hrlllburton. Lumberton. N.('., wed Jullr Mrrle Flelds July I, 1989. Bryan Wllson Grrrlson, Morganton, N.('.. married l,eslle Ellen Wllson July 8, 1989. Sharon Jewel Cllfton, Lowe's, Mount Airy, N.C.. wed Wryne Edward Brrker Jr. July 22, 1989, and Gregory Mark Brldgeford, Lenoir. N.('.. married Glnr Ehlne Merde Sept. 9. 1989.

Wslter Foxworth, (ialbraith Steel & Supply (1o.. Lubbock, Tx., has been recognized as one of the co.'s top dealers.

Blll O'Connell. Norman Lumber Co., Norman, Ok., has been honored as a Norman Life Member by the Norman lluilders Association.

Rorne T. Hunter has joined CertainTeed Corp. as Atlanta, (ia., territory mgr.

Jane E,lizabeth Buchenen, Lowe's, New Bern, N.C., married John William Dunhgm Jr. on June 3. I 989.

Jay Wrenn is now a treated products sales rep lor Coastal Lumber Co., Weldon. N.C.

Roy A. Smith, pres., Southern Wood Preserving, Hattiesburg, Ms., has been named the state's 1989 Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Jim Schaffer has lelt his exec. v.p.mktg./operations post at I)iamond Lumber, l)allas, Tx., to join Erb Lumber as pres.

James R. Dean has joined the sales staff of Dean Lumber Co.. Gilmer, Tx., specializing in Dricon fire retardant treated plywood and lumber.

Rich Gelatka is now roof insulation product mgr., roofing products div., The Celotex Corp., Tampa, Fl. Chuck Steiner is commercial roofing product mgr.; Tommy Young, roofing products div. operations mgr., and James Tabet, plant mgr., Camden, Ar.

Don Whipple has been named pres.elect of Builderama, Savannah, Ga., to succeed pres. Don Kole upon Kole's upcoming retirement.

Craig D. Weisbruch has been promoted to director of mktg.-gypsum products at Gold Bond Building Products, Charlotte, N.C.

Mike Oaster is the new sales mgr. at General Sentry Hardware Co., Jacksonville, Fl., replacing Terry Rowe, now sales mgr. in Greensboro, N.C. Also in Jacksonville, George Breedon is now program mgr.; Tom Powell, So. Ga./No. Fl. sales repl Becky Montgomery, central Fl. rep, and Bill Schanen, warehouse mgr.

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Bob Edwards is the new president of American Freeform, Dallas, Tx. He had been with Lee Roy Jordan Redwood Lumber Co. for more than 20 years and was gen. mgr.

Tony Hare is the new operations mgr. at Lee Roy Jordan Redwood Lumber Co., Dallas, Tx. Ronnie Fuchs is handling buying and sales.

Marvin Matises has been appointed mktg. and sales director at Chesapeake Corp., Westpoint, Va.

Lee Roy Jordan, namesake of the Dallas, Tx., lumber firm and former linebacking great for the Dallas Cowboys, is to be inducted into the prestigious Ring of Honor at Dallas Stadium by team owner Jerry Jones. His former coach, Tom Landry, is also set to be inducted.

Bill Morton, Home Lumber Co., Hazard, Ky., is scheduled to be installed as pres. of the National Lumber & Building Materials Dealers Association.

Terry Carron, John Elwell and Charles Puckett havejoined the sales team at Timber Tex Forest Products. Plano. Tx., the newest office of Stringfellow Lumber Co., Birmingham, Al.

Barrett Smith has been named national accounts mgr. for Hoover Treated Wood Products, Thomson, Ga. Steve Borris is now treating plant sales mgr.

William G. Currie, pres., Universal Forest Products, will assume the additional duties of chairman and c.e.o. He succeeds Peter F. Secchia, the new U.S. Ambassador to ltaly.

Fursten Sekandz, a Finnish exchange student, is a summer trainee in the hardwood dept. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv.. according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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