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Kevin Tillman has been named gen. mgr. ol Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Borger, Tx.

George C. Vaughan is the new pres. ol Alamo Forest Products, San Antonio, Tx., a subsidiary olVaughan & Sons, which his great grandlather lounded in 1893.

Glen Erhardt has joined Epperson Lumber Sales. Statesville. N.C.

John N. Galloway, pres., Hood Industries, Hattiesburg, Ms., has been named chairman of the American Plywood Association board of trustees. Bill Gregory is vice chairman.

Louie R. Davis, chairman of the board, Henderson & Baird Hardware Co.. Greenwood. Ms.. and South States Sentry, Inc., Shreveport, La., has been elected v.p. of Sentry Hardware Corp. New directors include Jerry Barton, General Hardware Co., Atlanta, Ga.l Charles E. Redmon, S&T Wholesale Hardware, Louisville, Ky., and Steven Kellar. West Texas Wholesale Supply Co., Abilene, Tx.

James W. Surane is now pres. of Vermont American Tool Group, Lincolnton, N.C., replacing Donald Sell.

R. Bert Hawk has retired as exec. director of the Southern Pressure Treaters Association alter 56 years in the industry. John Brennan succeeds him, and Sandy Rockert is the new office sec.

Parker Beebe. owner. Beebe Lumber Co.. Amarillo. Tx.. has been elected pres. of the Amarillo ['.xecutive Association.

Craig D. Weisbruch is now v.p. of mktg., gypsum products, at Gold Bond Building Products, Charlotte, N.C.

John Gustafson, Ceneral Products lnc.. l:redericksburg, Va., has been promoted to v.p. of mfg.

Randy Collins has been named mgr. of purchasing & transportation at Dixie Plywood Co., Savannah, Ga. Grady Varnum is the new softwood plywood buyer.

Roger llaxter has been promoted to mgr. of advertising production systems at Lowe's Cos.. North Wilkesboro, N.C. Honored in the general office employee suggestion program were Rita Adams, Sharon Burchette, Gretchen Heunemann and Karen Bumgarner.

William D. Pelon is the new store mgr. at Lowe's olCrown Point, Charlotte, N.C.

Blair Gaynor is new to millwork lumber sales at Mountain Pine, Conley, (ia. Railey Powell, Powell Hardwoods Manufacturing Co., Brownsville, Tn., has been named Lumberman of the Year by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis.

Gary Martz, Temple-lnland, Diboll, Tx., and pres. ofthe East Texas HooHoo Club, presented $750 to the East Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin, Tx., donated by the club in memory of the late Jack Hendricks, Angelina Hardwoods. Lufkin.

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Trey Cline is now retail sales mgr. at Lowe's, South Boston, Va.

Clifford T. "Kip" Howlett Jr. is now v.p. of environmental & government affairs for Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga.

Scott Malone is the new co-mgr. of 84 Lumber, Winchester, Ky.

Michael Moore is new to Perry Lumber Co., Perry, Ok., as mgr., according to owners Jim and Sandy Soulek.

Jim Lovell, v.p., Oklahoma Lumbermen's Association, has left Consolidated Lumber, Enid, Ok., to join a development firm in Vail, Co.

Fernando "Fred" Ganivet is the American Plywood Association's new field rep for So. Fl. Jim Gogolski is handling Louisville, Ky., and Bryan Readling, Birmingham, Al.; Chattanooga and Nashville, Tn., and Ga.

Chris Villarreal, Currie Lumber, Baton Rouge, La., won a lour-day fishing trip in Dow's Alaskan Angling Adventure competition, along with Tom Lasse, ABC Supply, Houston, Tx.l Paul Casey, Carolina Builders, Raleigh, N.C.; Charlie McWhorter, Clay County Builders, Manchester, Ky.; Reid Adams, Coler-Adams, Lawrenceville, Ga.l James Kennemer, Frisco Wholesale Lumber, F'risco, Tx.; Tom Quesenbery, Lowe's, North Wilkesboro, N.C., and Keith Watts, Plywood l)istributors, Houston.

Mike Crowl has joined Owasso Lumber Co., Owasso, Ok., in sales and management, reports owner Harold Merrill.

James N. Shaffer has joined AmeriMark Building Products, Raleigh, N.C., as v.p. of management information systems & materials management, according to pres. Gordon D. Bell.

Robert J. Funk is now Atlanta. Ga.. architectural rep for Azrock, San Antonio, Tx.

Ronnie Elmore is new to sales at Austell Forest Products, Reform, Al.

Matt Layman, The Pine Page, Burlington, N.C., and his wife, Linza, are the proud parents of Elizabeth Linza. born Nov. 8. 1990.

Les Day has been named mgr. of Furman Lumber's Atlanta, Ga., distribution center, according to Barry Kronick, pres. and ceo.

T. Marshall Hahn, chairman and ceo, Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., had the chemistry laboratory building named after him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, where he served as pres., 1962-7 4.

Ed Sedlak has been promoted to marketing at Abitibi-Price.

Rick Donaldson was named operations mgr. at Great Southern Wood Preserving's new Sumterville, Fl., treating plant. Les Gasperson is mktg. mgr., and Doug Moulton, sales mgr.

Rick Briggs is now sales mgr. of Weyerhaeuser's Greensboro. N.C.. customer service center. Jack MacDowall is gen. mgr.

James T. Schaffer is now exec. v.p. and coo of Builders Square, San Antonio, Tx.

Jerry Smith is the new coo of 84 Lumber. Kurt Stump is v.p. of finance, and Ron Butler, v.p. of mktg. and advertising.

Lynn Gweeney is now handling all ltalian imports for Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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