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Houston Hoo-Hoo ClubDec. 10, Christmas party, Houston, Tx.; (281) 499-5575.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's AssociationDec. 12, Christmas party & board meeting, Guthrie, Ok.; (800) 44+1771.

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Lumbermen's Club of MemphisJan. 7, luncheon meeting, Racquet Club, Memphis, Tn.; (901) 682-2838.

Mid-America Lumbermens AssociationJan. 7, yard foreman seminar, Oklahoma City, Ok.; Jan. 11-12, basic estimating course; Jan. 13, advanced estimating course, St. Louis, Mo.; Jan. 14-15, basic estimating course, Little Rock, Ar.; (800\ 747-6529.

National llousewares Manufacturers AssociationJan. 1013, International Housewares Show, McCormick Place, Chicago, Il.; (847) 292-4200.

Building Products International ShowcaseJan. 11-13, Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle, Wa.; (253) 922-66/;0.

TruServ Corp.Jan lLl4, lumber market, Bally's Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nv.; (773) 695-5000.

Louisiana Building Material Dealers AssociationJan. 14. 17, annual convention & buying show, Hilton Hotel, Baton Rouge, La; (225) 3444317.

National Association of Home BuildersJan. 15-18, Intemational Builders' Show, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Tx.; (202)822-02s4.

Buttery lfardware Co.Jan. 16-17, annual show, Palmer Auditorium, Austin, Tx.; (915) 2t+7-4141.

Florida llardware Co.Jan. 16-17, winter show, Downtown Marrioft, Orlando, Fl.; (904) 783-1650.

Monroe llardware/Smith llardwareJan. 16-17, combined spring dealer market, Charlotte Merchandise Mart, Chadotte, N.C.; (919) 735-628r.

Southern hessure Treaters AssociationJan. 17-19, winter meeting, New Orleans Hilton Riverfront, New Orleans, La.; (334) 968-5726.

Virginia Building Material AssociationJan. 19, sales seminar, Holiday Inn Central, Richmond, Va.; (804) 323-8262.

Ace Hardware Corp.- Jan 2l-?12, winter convention, Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, Az.; (630) 990-6600.

American Hardware Manufacturers AssociationJan. 2426, Hy att Regency, Phoenix, Az.; (847) 605- I 025.

DIY & Home Improvement ShowJan. 4-26, Olympia 2, London, England; (01 l ),14-18 l -462-0721.

Do it Best Corp.Jan. 26-27, winter market, Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Az; (219) 748-5300.

Worldwide D-I-Y CouncilJan. 26-29, Budma 99 trade fair, exhibition hall, Poznan, Poland; (317) 293-M06.

llouston Hoo.Hoo ClubJan. 28, bowling toumament, AMF Diamond Bowl, Houston, Tx.; (281) 499-5575.

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Kentucky Lumber & Building Material AssociationFeb. 1 6, annual convention, Louisville Convention Center, Louisville, Ky.; (502) 245-6730.

National Hardwood Lumber AssociationFeb. 4-5. marketing basics course, Memphis, Tn.; (800) 933-0318.

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material AssociationFeb. 56, annual convention & buying show, Charlotte Merchandise Mart, Charlotte, N.C. (704) 376-1503.

John Anthony, president, Anthony Forest Products Co., El Dorado, Ar., has been elected to the board at National Bank of Commerce in El Dorado. Steve Hopkins is Anthony's new mill mgr. in Atlanta, Tx. Buddy Rosser is forestry mgr. Steve MurphY was named plant maintenance supervisor for the Urbana, Ar., sawmill. Mac Brinkley is planer mill supervisor and Terry Etheridge, assistant plant mgr. John Makuvek, III, ex-LouisianaPacific, is now eastern sales mgr. for laminated power products, succeeding Steve Collie, who has joined Epperson Lumber Sales.

Enos Reece has been promoted to mgl. of Barton's of kachville, Ar., succeeding Greg llufford, who is managing a new store in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Other new Arkansas managers include: Randy Ivy, Harrisburg; DannY Harvison, Trumann, and Jeff Cole, Barton's Design Center, Jonesboro.

Adam Wallace is store mgr. of the new 84 Lumber in Winchester, Tn. Jim Robinson has been named co-mgr. in Kingsport, Tn.

Kimberly Ann Keuper, ex-Tolleson Lumber Co., is now selling from the Perry, Ga., office of Dobbins Forest Products, Birmingham, Al.

Chris Mangino is managing the new Home Depot in Roanoke, Va. Robert Moody is mgr. and Patrick Adams asst. mgr.of the new Albany, Ga., unit.

Scott Greene has been promoted to v.p.mktg. for Universal Forest Products.

Alex R. Aiken, Intemational Paper Co., Dallas, Tx., was elected chairman of APA-The Engineered Wood Association, succeeding James E. Allen, Union Camp, Chapman, Al. Duane IL Peterson, Champion International, Camden, Tx., is vice chairman; James Sterret, Boise Cascade, and Ronald Paul, Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., are regional trustees.

Michael Ilanna, ex-Louisiana-Pacific, has joined Sunbelt Trade Services, Orlando, Fl.

Robert Taylor, Taylor's Do it Center, Virginia Beach, Va., was elected to his second term as chairman of the board of Do it Best CorP. Norris Rader, Norris Rader, Inc., New Iberia, La., was also elected to his second cons@utive board term.

E. Dwain Plaster becomes Pres. and c.o.o.-flooring division for Triangle Pacific, Dallas, Tx., Jan. l, succeeding M. Joseph McIIugh, who is retiring after 22 years. Joseph B. ThomPson was promoted to director of mktg.- division; Richard Quinlan is directorcorporate sales, and Joseph F. Reddington, distribution sales rngr.

Richard W. Brown, Truss Systems, Inc., Oxford, Ga., is the new president of the Wood Truss Council of America.

Joseph Llhlick has been named national projects mgr. for Benchmark General Products Co., Fredericksburg, Va. Derrick T. Bell is now south central regional sales mgr. for Ar., Ok., Tx. and La, and Mark II. Hansen is regional sales mgr. for Ky., among other states.

Kenneth R. Cartmill has been named program director/business process redesign for Celotex Corp., Tampa, Fl. F. Wallace Bromberg, Jr., National Woodworks, Inc., Birmingham, Al., was elected lst vice-chairman of the National Sash & Door Jobbers Association, New Port RicheY, Fl. Bob Wimsatt, Wimsatt Bros., l,ouisville, Ky., has been named chairman of the North American Building Material Distribution Association's new Roofing Distributors Alliance committee.

John Lenart has joined Prudential Building Materials as v.p.-sales & mktg. Dave McKenna is the new purchasing director.

Keith Purchase, ex-TimberWest Forest Corp., was appointed executive v.p. and chief operating officer for MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Tom Buell is interim chief executive officer at TimberWest.

Bruce I. Cantor has been promoted to national sales mgr. for PermaGrain Products, Inc.

Neale Haynes, Southern Gulf Trucking, Shreveport, [,a., recently hunted pheasant in South Dakota on an Eaton Corp. and Kenworth sponsored trip.

Matthew Larry Boyd, a junior at Mississippi State University with a 3.2 GPA, received the Lumbermen's Educational Foundation, Inc.'s 19981999 scholarship.

Jean Poole is the new human resources director at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners llugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.