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Vance Posey has been appointed marketing director of McCoy's Building Supply Centers, San Marcos, Tx.

Arvin Compton is the new assistant sales mgr. for cypress at Elder Forest Products, Inc.'s Sulphur, La., office.

Douglas J. Warstler has been named chief financial officer of New South, Inc., Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Ralph S. Stagner, ex-Champion International Corp., has been named operations mgr. for Weyerhaeuser Co.'s Pine Hill. Al.. containerboard operation. Rob Taylor has been named v.p. of Weyerhaeuser's appearance wood business, succeeding Bill Blankenship, who has been appointed v.p. of OSB.

Mike French has been promoted to sales mgr. of Golden State Wood of Florida, Bushnell, Fl.

Ben Stephens has been named director of information for the North American Wholesale Lumber Association.

Fred Hicks has been promoted to branch mgr. for the Greensboro, N.C., DC of Diamond Hill Plywood Co., Darlington, S.C., succeeding Mike Davis, who has resigned. Adam Colvin is now selling plywood and OSB for Smith Cos., Pelham, Al.

Michael Burchett has been named mgr. of 84 Lumber, Portsmouth, Ky. New co-mgrs.: Bobby Morgan, Union City, Tn.; Andre Cohen, Campbellsville, N.C.; Bob Braxton, Raleigh, N.C.; John McKelvey, Decherd, Tn.; Scott Ruber, Versailles, Ky., and Jason York, Winchester, Ky.

Steve Stephens has been named industrial sales mgr. of Heritage Forest Products. Orlando. Fl.

Thomas H. Darger, ex-Owens Corning, has been named senior v.p. of sales & marketing for ChannelLinx, Greenville, S.C. Susan Lill is now v.p. ofhuman resources.

Charles Andrus is now handling sales for Ray White Lumber Co., Sparkman, Ar.

Scott House, v.p. of OEM products, U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp., Boca Raton, Fl., has assumed responsibility for building products, succeeding Mike Dahl, who, along with Andrew Stephens, president, plastics division, has resigned to pursue other interests. Mark S. Alsentzer, chairman, ceo & president, will be in charge of the plastics division until a replacement is found, and Mike McCann, v.p., packaging, now has additional responsibility as head of recycled resins.

Bob Cowles has been named v.p. of sales for e-Builder Inc., Boca Raton, Fl.

Ronnie Bullard has been appointed district mgr. of South Carolina for Lowe's Cos., N. Wilkesboro, N.C. Tim Rose has been named mgr. of the Lake City, Fl., store.

Jerry Shepherd has been named store mgr. of the new Home Depot in Christiansburg, Va. Joanne Barley, contractor sales, Naples, Fl., was one of I 1 associates chosen to help commemorate the opening of the chain's l,000th store by ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Mary Viola has been appointed director of corporate communications for TruServ Corp. Robert Ostrov, chief administrative officer and general counsel, TruServ Corp., has been apointed chairman of the firm's Canadian subsidiary. Michael Quane, corporate treasurer, has been elected to the board.

Jack and Marsha Peters, Jack's Home Improvement Center, Lucedale, Ms., and Randy Wells, Pro Hardware, Morristown, Tn., were among those chosen as 1999 Retailers of the Year by Pro Hardware.

Gerald Long, L.A. Reynolds Home & Garden Showplace, Winston-Salem, N.C.. has been named a 2000 Member of the Year by TruServ Corp.'s Garden Center division.

Richard Griffin has been named technical application consultant for Ky., for Senergy, Inc., Jacksonville, Fl. Mark Austin is district sales mgr. for the Rocky Mountain region, including El Paso. Tx.

Michael Cole has been promoted to chief financial officer for Universal Forest Products.

Arthur Temple Jr., was named Man of the Century at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Deep East Texas Development Association, for overseeing the growth of the former Southern Pine Lumber Co., Diboll, Tx., into Temple-Inland Corp.

Thomas L. Caltrider, senior v.p. of insulation, Johns Manville, has been named chairman of the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, Alexandria, Va., succeeding Bruce Cowgill, who is now pres. and ceo of Ball Foster Glass.

Gerald B. Smith has been elected to the board of Cooper Industries, Inc., Houston, Tx.

Leon Wieland has been promoted to senior v.p., manufacturing and operations at Wilsonart International, Temple, Tx. Bill DiGaetano is now v.p., sales and marketing, North America for the laminate division; Ron Gagnon, director of design and marketing; Jim Schnietz, director of sales, laminate; Ken Eldridge, mgr. of operations for regional warehouses and DCs, and sales and operations for metro centers, and Curt Haffner has rejoined the flooring division as director, sales and marketing.

Charlie Wilson, Lane Stanton Vance Lumber, City of Industry, Ca., after a 7S-year career of buying and selling hardwoods, has retired atage93.

David Dwyer is now mgr.-sales & marketing for Steel Construction Systems, Orlando, Fl.

Huck DeVenzio, Hickson Corp., Smyrna, Ga., recently visited 3,281ft. Angel Falls, the world's tallest waterfall, in Venezuela.

Goode Knight has been named evening security supervisor at MungusFungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus, succeeding I.M. "Lee" Ving, who has departed.

News Briefs

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Harrigan Lumber closed indefinitely its Monroeville, Al., sawmill due to market conditions

International Wood Products Associatiorz, Vienna, Va., has revised its position on timber certification, clearing the way for its introduction in the fall of a "Certification Information Clearing House" to provide members with information on developments in forest management and certification

International Paper's Wood Products business, Savannah, Ga., was named Supplier of the Year by Centex Homes, Dallas, Tx., for the second time in the last three years

Structural Connections, Inc.. Sarasota, Fl., is a new distributor of Willamette Industries' E-Z Frame System new stocking dealers include The Lumber Yard, with 30+ locations in five states including Virginia

B uilde r S upplyN et. c om, Dulles, Va., is now serving 16 more markets, including Jacksonville and Miami, Fl.; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Ok.; Little Rock, Ar., and San Antonio, Tx.

Hilti North America. Tulsa. Ok., was among l0 worldwide recipients of the first annual award for Advancing the Value of Human Worth in the Workplace

New Web site: James Hardie's Hardibacker ceramic tile underlayment, www.hardibacker.com

Anniversaries: Diamond Hill Plywood Co., Darlington, S.C., 55th ... Progressive Building Products, Inc., Franklin, N.C., 5Oth ... Walter Terry Distributor, Inc., Houston. Tx.. 35th Gator Door & Supply Co. Inc., Gainesville and Brooksville, Fl., 25th ... Quality Building P roducts, Gainesville, Tx.,20th.

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'['o kccl-l up \\'ith rlcrrurncl nnd antic, rpating l'r-rrthcl crparrsion. Printe Sorrtce Br-rilding [)roducts. C]arrollton. Tx.. has nroverl into a larger distt'ibution center nol luf lrorn its cLlfrcnt Iocatior-r.

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