PERS NALS

Tim Bean, Curt Bean Lumber Co., Glenwood. Ar.. was elected vice chairman ofthe board ofgovernors of the American Wood Preservers Bureau at the annual meeting in Orlando, Fl.

Joel Whitley is the new retail store mgr. at Lester Home Center. Dunn, N.C. Dave Godwin is now contractor sales mgr., and Steve Stec, general store mgr.

Beau Freyou is new to Southern pine export sales at American Paneling Plywood & Lumber, Port Neches, Tx., according to Dick Freyou.

Lennie Zallar has been promoted to v.p. and treas. of Hechinger Co. Karen A. Egerer is new to the firm as v.p. and controller.

Jim Brown has joined the sales force at Alamo Forest Products, San Antonio, Tx., according to Melvin Allen.

Macon W. Lowe has been named pres. and c.o.o. of the W.R. Bonsal Co., Charlotte, N.C., succeeding William R. Bonsal III. now chairman and c.e.o.

Joe C. Denman Jr., chairman and pres., Temple-lnland Forest Products Corp., Diboll, Tx., has retired after 38 years with the firm. No replacement is expected to be named until January.

Russell Kennedy is the new v.p. of marketing & sales at GAF Building Materials Corp., according to pres. John Brennan.

Frank Denny, c.e.o., Builders Square, San Antonio, Tx.; Bernard Marcus, chairman and c.e.o., Home Depot, Atlanta. Ga., and Robert Strickland, chairman. Lowe's. North Wilkesboro, N.C., will participate in a "State of the Industry" panel at the National Home Center Show in March.

Larry Dwyer has joined Chesapeake Corp.'s Holly Hill treating plant, Eutawville, S.C., as a marine salesman, according to Rae R. Ehlen.

Jim Garner is the sales mgr. of Travis Lumber Co.'s new Mansfield, Ar., mill.

Steve Blount and Rodney Turley are new to sales at American Lumber Distributors & Brokers, Birmingham, At.

Rick Tomlinson, sales mgr,Georgia-Pacific, Raleigh, N.C., has been transferred to Charleston. S.C.. as sales mgr.

Kenneth A. Neal, asst. treas., Lowe's Cos., North Wilkesboro, N.C., received the annual North Carolina Automated Clearing House Association Excellence Award. J.C. Parris, Lowe's. Asheville. N.C., was honored with his city's Better Business Bureau Courtesy Award.

Ron Perry, Lowe's, North Wilkesboro, N.C., has been named to the State Ports Authority's board of directors by Gov. Jim Martin.

Mark Sandridge has returned to Lowe's, Charlottesville, Va., as store mgr.

Kathryn Looney is the new director of dealer services and education for the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association.

Jeff Pike is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber Co., BluffCity, Va.

Dean Privette has been named personnel director for the newly lormed human resources dept. at the Paty Co., Piney Flats, Tn. JoAnne Paty is director of training.

Phyllis Walker, Scotty's, Winter Haven, Fl., received second prize in Master Lock's reception prize drawing at the recent National Hardware Show in Chicago, Il.

Jack K. Humphrey, HumPhreY Lumber Corp., MontgomerY, Al., has been elected to the board of managers of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, MemPhis, Tn', along with Bill A. Mullican, B. A. Mullican Lumber & Manufacturing Co., Venore, Tn., and David L. Williams, Louisiana Southern Forest Products, Inc., Opelousas, La.

Durand Darbyshire, regional market mgr., Southern Forest Products Association, and his wife, Susan, are the parents of 8 lb., 4 oz. Scott Ross Darbyshire, born Nov. 7, 1988.

Mike Pastore, CertainTeed Corp., has been promoted to group mgr., service centers, succeeding E. W. "Gene" Adams, who has retired.

Doug Ashy Sr., Ashy Building Materials, Lafayette, La., was recentlY honored by the Acadiana Home Builders Association for his membership recruitment efforts.

Mark A. Evans has been named v.P. of marketing & sales at RockY ToP Wood Preservers Inc., Rocky Mount, Va., according to pres. Thomas R. Casteel.

Lane Cox, industrial sales rep, GeorgiaPacific, Houston, Tx., has been named a regional Employee of the Quarter. Others recognized include Kendall Jones, lumber sales mgr., Jackson, Ms., and warehouse supervisors George Murphy, Richmond, Va.; Dale Beard, Tallahassee, Fl.; Gerald Young, Tampa, Fl., and Jack Teel. Tulsa. Ok.

Charles "Rip" Rogers, Trussway-Dallas Inc., Dallas, Tx., has been elected president .of the Wood Truss Council of America. John Herring, A-l Roof Trusses Inc., West Palm Beach, Fl., is 1989 pres.-elect/treas., and new board members: Faye Griffith, TriState Truss, Cleveland, Tn.; Gary Weaver, Timber Tech, Cibolo, Tx., and Staton Douthit, Associated Truss Co., Mesquite, Tx.

Jay Wyatt has returned to the Big Tin Barn, Diboll, Tx., as mgr.

Gary Lillard, Culpeper Wood Preserving, Culpeper, Va., is recuperating after surgery.

Elbert f,. Venable, head of the plumbing dept. at Venable Lumber Co., North Little Rock, Ar., until he was 96, recently celebrated his l0lst birthday.

Paul Pixley, v.p. and gen. mgr., Pixley Lumber Co., Claremore, Ok., has been named a trustee of the Claremore Public Schools Foundation.

Truman Hall, Little Rock, Ar., 1987-88 president of the Mid-America Lumbermens Association, is recuperating at home following a recent heart transplant operation.

Jack Peddy is now on the wholesale staff of Ridge Pallets, Barstow, Fl., working out of Ocala, Fl.

Mike Coyne, Ames Lawn & Garden Tools, has been appointed gen. sales mgr. of a l0-state region, including Tn. and Ky.

Currie Brankstone, daughter of Richard Brankstone, sales mgr., Elliott Whittington Builder's Supply, Memphis, Tn., was selected Lumber's Lady Fair by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis.

Keith Smith is new to sales at Walter M. Fields Lumber Co., Memphis, Tn. He will work out of Columbia. Tn.. covering Tn., Ky., Al., Va. and the Carolinas.

John S. Hwilka has been promoted to v.p., sales & marketing, for the lumber div. of the Lumber Insurance Companies. Donald Robert Rung is now asst. v.p., technical field services.

Al E. Baba has been put in charge of cash disbursements at M ungusFungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus, owners.