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Ben Podblelskl is the new branch mgr.

Canton Lumber Co.'s Greeneville. Tn.. dishibution center.

Tom Hlcks and Jason Colller, Kenhrcky Wholesale Building Products, L,exington, Ky.; Ron Russell, Boland-Maloney Lumber, Louisville, Ky., and Larry Ethlngton, Ethington Building Supply, Shelbyville, Ky., placed second in the Tri-State Golf Outing at Sultan's Run, Jasper, In. Bruce Humphrey, Charlie Quinn Lumber, Sturgis, Ky., and Ron Goode, Cole Lumber, Paducah, Ky., served on the tournament committ€e.

Mark & Shellle Todd, Custom Cutting Millworks Inc., Oklahoma City, Ok., became parents of a son, Collln

Nathanlel Oct. 7.

Charles "Chlp" Cofer, exec. v.p., Cofer Bros., Tucker, Ga., is offering remodeling tips on WFOX radio.

Davld Kennedy, div. mgt., T. H. Rogers Lumber Co., Edmond, Ok., will retire March 31 after 33 years. Don Kennedy, newly named asst. div. mgr., will take over April I, according to president and gen. mgr. Mlke Kennedy. Don & his wife, Bernlce, have a new daughter, born Oct. 12. Grandparents are Davld and Dee Kennedy.

Bob Holland has joined Tarheel Wood Treating Co., Morrisville, N.C., as outside sales rep.

Jlm Hodklnson, hired to assist Home Depot, Atlant4 Ga., with international expansion plans, has resigned and returned home to England.

Jlm Precht, former Ben. mgr., Weyerhaeuser, Oklahoma City, Ok., and Springdale, Ar., distribution cenlers, will manage the company's new 5.6 acre Houston, Tx., DC.

Bud Webb is managing the new McCoy's Building Supply Center, Ardmore, Ok., not Bob as report€d last month.

Greg & Judy Pennell, Pannell's l)'o-it Center, Glenpool, Ok., have a new daughter, Alysse Lynn, born Oct 10.

Jln Dunn, Mill Cr€€k Lmber & Supply, Tulsa" Ok., was elected to the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce boud of directon.

Dlck Derrone bas joined Pelican Building Center, Myrtle Berch, S.C. Mlchrel L. Nobbe is swceeding Tony B. Chembers as presi&nt of tbe Railway Tie Association, Gulf Sborss, Al. Mett Nelson, sales mgr.-souttcast region, Hitachi Power Tools USA- bas movcd to Atlanta, Ga., Hq., where BenJlc Hopklns is now purcbasing mgr. and Heldl Couch, sales & marketing, is flrlling the new public relations @odinator position. Doug lrndwehr is a new account exec. covering No. VaMlcheel Medlson bas joined Dickson Weatberp'roof Nail Co. as v.p. of sales. Caltlln Beker, l0-yecold daughter of Ed Baker, MacMillan Bloedel Building Materials ngr., Jacksonville, Fl., cleated an mimdlsd video which won second place in tbe Florida Shdent Media Festival.

Jeffrey T. Kates has been naned president of Hdoc, Louisville, Ky.

Joseph Haggerty IV is new to sales at Williams Lumber Co., Rocky Mount, N.C.

Alan Smlth is the new OSB sales mgr. for Louisiana-Pacific, Southem Div., Conroe. Tx.

A. D. (Petett Corr.ell, ceo, Georgia-Pacific, was nominated as chairman of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce for 1998.

Donald S. Huml, Snap-on Inc., and Don A. Rlce, Texas A&M University, have joined Cameron Ashley's board of directors.

Monty Reese, formerly senior v.p.-marketing and advertising, Emst Home & Garden, Seattle, Wa., has joined Home Quarters Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., in the same position.

Charles R. Graham has been named plant mgr. at Inter-City Products Corp.'s lrwisburg, Tn., facility.

John Cox and Lynn Hyche have joined the sales team at Atlantic Trading Co., Bimdngham, Al.

Fellpe Salaverry has joined Plasti-Kote, Fort Lauderdale, Fl., as Caribbean & Latin American operations director.

Bob & Janet Armer, Southem Components, Shreveport, La., are grandparents ofSpencer Lane born to Scott & Tammy Smith Oct. 25.

Robert L. Tillman has been named chief operating officer at Lowe's, North Wilkesboro, N.C., and a director, relacing Jack C. Shewmaker, who has resigned from the board. Mlchael Rouleau is now pres. of subsidiary The Contractor Yard, Inc.

Don Smith Jr., Bowman Lumber, Lubbock, Tx., and his wife, Debbie, are parents of a baby girl, Adrlan Lynn, bom Sept. 22.

Wendell M. Cramer, W. M. Cramer Lumber Co., Hickory, N.C., is the new pres. of the National Hardwood Lumber Association; Andre G. Lemire, l,emire Lumber, Sherbrooke, Quebec, lst v.p.; Robert M. Owens, Owens Forest Products, Duluth, Mn., 2nd v.p. Directors: Bob Matson, Matson Lumber Co., Brookville, Pa.; Byron Hawklns, Webster Industries, Bangor, Wi.; Dave Redmond, Highland Hardwood Sales, Augusta, Ga.; Timothy McCagln, Coastal Lumber, Weldon, N.C.; Parnell Lewls, Anderson-Tully Co., Memphis, Tn.; Gustave Brunet, Sylvio Brunet & Fils, Fassett, Quebec, and Brent Stief, Peter Thomson & Sons Inc., Alliston. Ontario.

Bryan Jeremy Lange, store mgr., Home Depot, Woodstock, Ga., wed Holll Alana Hudglns Nov. 5, 1994.