Building Products Digest

will conduct Armstrong's Retail Management Seminar in Charlonesville Nov. D-14. Priorto this a beginners estimating class will be offerod b1'Ben Dale. Cox Wood Preserving, in Charlonesville. Nov. ll-12.

A retail employee lumber seminar will be conducted I Harry J. Anton of the Western Wood Products Association in Norfolk. Richmond and Manassas on Dec. 2. 3 and 4. This will be a half day session.

A seminar on theft and securir;* of shipping and receiving docks. store. lard and office including compr.rter u'ill be presented by a parcl including an arson exp€rt. an FBI man and a former undercover agent in three yet to be determined locations at a furure date. Planning also is being completed for an advanced estimating seminar to be given in December.

Although the summer managernent conference Aug. 14-17 in Virginia Beach was threatened by Hurricane Charlie. over 200 dealer and associate members and their families attended. During business sessions, a change was voted in the f-laws crcating the ofTice of associate vice president. This officer will serr't as a direct line from the associate rnemben to the executive committee and the board of directors. The first associate vice president will be elected at the 1987 convention. The board of directors also selected the Myrtle Beach Sheraton as the site of the 1990 conrention.

Kentuckl' Lumber Dealers Association has issued a tentative schedule ofeducational programs beginning Dec. ll with a rctail lumber seminar to be presented by the Western Wood Producs Association in L-ouiwille. Other proposed dates include a marketing structura.l panels seminar on Jan. 12 in Morchead: Jan. 13. Covington: Jan. 14. Elizabethtovn. andJan. 15. Faducah.

Rudy Jones will be the instructor for an estimatingseminar to be giraenon a to bedetermined date in March in l-exington. according to Billy Thompson. executive vice prcsident.

The Executive Inn V€s1 in t ouisville will be the site of the annual KLBMDA convention. Nov. ll-13.

Building Materid Merchants' Association of Georgia & Alabama is prcsenting a new employee basic training program. Oct. 19-21. Nov. lGl8 and Dec. K-16.

Erv Goodroe, executir'e vicc president of the association. will serve as the insmrcror for tlre sessions which will be offered at the BMMA Training Center. 2840 hrk St.. Austell. Ga. Seminar housing will be provided at the l-a Quinta Motor Inn.

The object of the seminar is to prwide ongoing basic product knovledge and sales training for new sales people. Developed by dealers, the program is designed to make a brand new hire with no product knorvledge productive immediately. The seminar is sponsored by the BMMA education comminee cochaired by Barron Harbin and Wayne Rodgers.