PERSONAI,S

Dale Kennedy, McAlester, Ok., has been promoted to Eastern Oklahoma district mgr. for T.H. Rogers Lumber Co., Edmond, Ok.

David Tompkins has been promoted to sales mgr. at Kruse Plastic & Plywood Inc., Louisville, Ky. David Marshall is new to sales and Jeff Lee has been named general mgr., Roanoke, Va.

Davie E. "Mickey" Holley has retired as store mgr. of [,owe's, Lynchburg, Va., after 19 years with the company.

Laans Hokanson has been named comgr. of 84 Lumber Co., Falling Creek, Va. Roger Greene is now mgr., Spartanburg, S.C.; Ron Haynes, comgr., Anderson, S.C.; Bob Hamon, supply mgr., Wilmington, N.C.; Dennis Spinks, mgr., Danville, Ky., and Jeff Camp, co-mgr., Danville.

Bill Gibbons is new to wood products sales at Chandler Lumber, Dallas, Tx.

Lewis Jenkins has retired as pres. of Jenkins Wholesale Supply Co., North Wilkesboro, N.C., after 46 years with the co. Ernie Hoyle succeeds him.

Ronald Armentor and Lance Lebourgeois are new to sales at Lafayette Wood-Works, Inc., Lafayette, La.

Dick Bower has been promoted to manufacturing adminstration mgr. at American Woodmark Corp., Winchester, Va.

Michael Coulter is now mgr. of Harrah Lumber Co., Harrah, Ok.

Joe Farmer, ex-Russin Lumber, has joined pine sales at Northern Neck Lumber Co., Warsaw, Va.

Randy Holton has been promoted to mgr. of specialty and roofing foam insulation products at Celotex, Tampa, Fl.

Glenn Lewis, ex-Louisiana-Pacifi c Corp., has joined Orgill Bros. & Co., Memphis, Tn., as panel products buyer.

John Harrison, Indiana Lumberman's Mutual Insurance, has retired as pres. after 34 years with the company. John Wolf has been promoted to pres.

Pat Farrah has resigned as pres. of M.G. Products to rejoin Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., which he co-founded with Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. Reece Gilmer is store mgr. of the new Chattanooga, Tn., Depot.

Jose A. Ortiz is now in charge of the commercial & professional division at Foxworth-Galbraith, El Paso, Tx. Larry Tohey is a new v.p. at Dallas, Tx., Hq.; Billy White, v.p./sec., Dallas; Jeff Williams, gen. mgr., Waco, Tx., and Gene Bryant, yard operations mgr., McKinney, Tx.

Chris Webb, ex-Viking Industries, is new to laminated beam sales at Anthony Forest Products Co., El Dorado, Ar.

D. Henry Watts has been promoted to vice chairman, Norfolk Southern Corp., Norfolk, Va. L.I. Prillaman succeeds Watts as exec. v.p.-mktg. William B. Bales is now senior v.p.international mktg. Thomas J. Golian has been named v.p.

Mary Bilbro is new to the Mississippi Building Material Dealers Association, Carthage, Ms.

Ken Latessa has been promoted to director of operations at Brock Supply Co., Pompano Beach, Fl. Brenda Riaski is now in outside sales.

F. Wallace Bromberg, Jr. has been named pres. of National Woodworks, Inc., Birmingham, Al., succeeding his father, Wallace Bromberg, Sr., who remains chairman.

Ted Grabowski is now senior regional sales mgr. for Naturalitey'EPl Skylight Systems and Skywall Translucent Systems, Terrell, Tx.

John Blackburn, JGA Corp., Atlanta, Ga., and Robert Stolz, Charlotte Hardwood Center, Inc., Charlotte, N.C., have been named directors for the North American Building Material Distribution Association.

Chris Goff, Furman Lumber Co., Houston, Tx., recently visited San Diego. Ca., on business.

Ed Hedbloom, Hedbloom & Associates. has been appointed N.C. and S.C. rep for Woodfold-Marco Mfg., Inc.

Dan Cotter, ceo of Coner & Co., will be honored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago for his multi-million dollar fundraising efforts.

Elizabeth Ann Smith, Lowe's Cos., North Wilkesboro, N.C., married Jesse Reddin Murphy luly 22. Jeremy Paul Testerman, North Wilkesboro, is engaged to wed Amanda Renee Sluder Jan. 27,1996.

Elmar Brock, Trinity Forest Products, Hurst, Tx., is back from a four-week trip through Polynesia on a working freighter.

Dan Harper is now executive v.p. for the Home Finishings division of Bob Timberlake, L€xington, N.C.

Delton Dwayne Vanderpool, 84 Lumber Co., l,exington, Ky., married Melenie Kay Fish Aug. 26.

Robert C. Reeves is nationaUintemational sales mgr. for Macco Adhesives.

Oakley Warren III, Home Depot, Tulsa, Ok., married Kim llopcus Nov. I l.

Eaton B. Maree catered a recent employee picnic at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.