OBOTUARIES

Terry Stringer

Terry Stringer, 41, managing director and chief executive officer of MacMillan Jardine, Hong Kong, and a director of Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles, both subsidiaries of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.. was killed

(Continued from page I I ) v.p. is Earle Fosse; the other v.p. is Vic Camozzi.

Directors are Elliott McCluney, Joe Lovato, Greg Field, Woody Anderson, Gary Cornell, John Stoltenberg, Bob Lightfield, Dick Stemper, Chuck Rouse, Sid Voorhees, Ned Thurston, Walt Shriver, Frank Powers and George Jacobsen.

In an excellent presentation, three members of WBMA's Young Westerners Club, the first of the under-35 groups among the lumber dealer associations, tackled "the state of the art."

December 4, when the airplane in which he was riding was hijacked and subsequently crashed near Singapore.

Stringer was born in British Columbia and was a professional forester. He studied at the University of British Columbia, Oregon State University (where he took a Masters degree) and the University of Madrid.

He is survived by his widow, Judith, and family.

Under moderator Charles Rouse, club president, Larry Keller, Kyle Kincaid and Rand Thomas explored the problems/opportunities in the areas of customer service, inventory, working environment, wages, capital investments and related topics.

Kincaid noted that the successful dealer must have an adequate system of financial management to be able to forecast the financial requirements his business will face.

Larry Keller noted that "our industry is turning toward specializ'ed services and products." He suggested a firm should consider establishine "a total concept of specialized products and services and using it as a profitable 'package sales' program."

Rand Thomas discussed the difficulties small firms have in finding good people and that "responsibilities need to be delegated (once strong people are found) and carried out." He said an applicant's attitude, appearance, age, starting wage, salary and references are all weiehed in the hiring process.