yearly meet

1 TTRACTING nearly 3,500 f{ delegates to the Florida Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's 69th annual convention could not have been diflicult with a program that included retired Lt. Colonel Ollie North, football great Terry Bradshaw, former governor

Lee Sherman Dreyfus, and a well attended buying show, golf and tennis tournaments.

Outgoing FLBMDA president Bob Allen, Gulf Stream Lumber Co., Boynton Beach, collected the annual President's Award and passed the gavel to Donald J. Smyth

Sr., Smyth Lumber Co., Orlando. Also installed: president-elect Larry Peeno, Causeway Lumber Co., Fort Lauderdale; lst vice president R. Tom Joyner lll, Joyner Lumber Co., Lakeland; secretary/ treasurer Bob Secrist. Mack Industries, Hollywood; vice president Fraser Lynn, MacMillan Bloedel Building Materials, Jacksonville; vice president-elect Bonnie Lewis, Bontel Fasteners Corp., Pinellas Park; national dealer director Clint Dawkins, Dawkins, Inc., Jacksonville; truss division chairman John Herring, A-1 Roof Trusses, West Palm Beach, and member-at-large

Story at a Glance

Florida Lumber & Building Material Association's 69th annual convention and buying show fures 3,472 delegates and 264 exhibitors... Don Smyth Sr. named new president. .. next year: Sept. 20-22, Orlando, Fl.

Michael O'Donnell, Lanahan Lumber Co., Jacksonville.

Regional directors include Brantley Morris, Banner Builders Supply Co., Pensacola; Les Abstein Jr., Tallahassee Builders Supply, Tallahassee; Rick Goolsby, Belleview Building Materials, Belleview; Greg Adams, Adams Building Materials, Winter Haven, Gayden Wilkins, Thomas Lumber Co., Orlando; Brian Blocker, East Coast Lumber,

Cocoa: Ed Dietrich. Deerfield Builders Supply Co., Deerfield Beach; Dale Fullon, Raymond Building Supply Corp., Fort Myers, and Antonio Goitia, Everglades Lumber & Building Supply. Miami.

Associate directors are Jim Brock Sr., Brock Supply Co., Pompano Beach; Dennis Berry, Addison

Corp., Winter Haven; Charlie Hoover, Alpine Engineered Products, Haines City, and Jim Anderson, Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance, Boca Raton.

The Associate of the Year Award went to Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance, while Bonnie Lewis earned the newly created Industry Service

Award.

Among the264 exhibitors, Bontel Fasteners collected the Best of Show Award.

The convention was held Sept. l4-16 at the Marriott World Center, Orlando. FLBMDA's next convention will be held at the Marriott Sept. 20-22, t990.