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association nerus in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association plans two seminars for its annual convention Jan. 12 and 13 in Louisville.

C. Joseph Green, Mapother & Mapother, Louisville, will lead a session on "Collections and Bankruptcy." Jack Rice, senior consultant, Person Group, Carmel. In.. will head a discussion of "Around the Lumber Yard Everyone Sells."

An evening at Louisville Downs, an all industry cocktail party and Monte Carlo night are also planned for recreation.

Tennessee Building Material Association's new directors will take oflice on Jan. l.

They include John Seward, Paty Lumber, Piney Flats, District l; John Greeter, Greeter Building Center, Monteagle, District 4; Larry Quesenberry, Southland Supply, Murfreesboro, District 5l Bob Walters, Fischer Lime and Cement Co., Memphis, associate member director; Charles Brooks, Citizens Supply Corp., Kingsport, director at large, and Randy Rinks, B & B Lumber Co., Savannah, director at large.

Bill Sharp, Percon Group, will lead a day long seminar and discussion on retail selling skills, "Around Home Centers and Lumber Yards Everybody Sells." for TBMA members on Jan. I I at Sheraton Music City, Nashville.

Building Material Melchrnt's Association of Georgia and Alabama will give away over $10,000 in cash prizes during its 8th annual Buying Show, Jan. 29 and 30 at the Georgia International Trade Center, College Park, Ga.

BMMA will give away $100 in cash at a mystery booth every hour of the show. At the Saturday night banquet there will be nine different drawings for cash giveaways. These include four $250 prizes; two $500 prizes; two $1,000 prizes and one $5,000 grand prize. Dealers, members and non-members attending the show are eligible ifthey are preregistered and in attendance at the banquet.

This year's show will cover the entire 40,000 sq. ft. trade center with 187 exhibitor booths.

Mississippi Building Material Dealers Association's 1988 convention committee has arranged for Dick Molpus, Mississippi secretary of state and a possible U.S. Senate candidate, to speak at the 62nd annual convention and trade show, Feb. l8-20, according to Bill Reynolds, chairman.

Deadline for reserving space for the show at the Royal D'lberville Hotel, Biloxi, Ms., is Dec. 15. The committee reports over 700/o of the booths are already reserved.

Kenneth Breland, president of Breland Building Supply, Inc., Philadelphia, Ms., has been elected District 4 representative to the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association. Mississippi delegates to the convention in Boston. Oct. l5-18. included Breland with his wife, Shelby; MBMDA president Dwight Long and his wife, Gail: Fred and Penny Nabors and association director Bob Catlin and his wife, Dot.

Yirgintr Building Meterirl Associetion's education oommittee chaired by Val Hume of J.W. Masters, lnc., has scheduled a series of seminars for December, January and February.

A seminar designed to give sales per-

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