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all three of their children. While Linda hasn't been in the industry for the last couple of years, she considered the lumber business her career, and is still well known and liked in a large region of Califomia.

A Season Of Renewal

My friend Linda French recently passed away after a series of health problems (Jan., p. 3l). She is survived by her father, Norman, who is 83. In the last five years, he has attended the funerals of his wife and

It's true you know. The older one gets (and I'm feeling ancient these days), the more friends' names you see in the obituaries. The industry lost some true icons over the past year. Having worked in Georgia-Pacific's offices before, during and after the Louisiana-Pacific spinoff, I was aware of William Hunt's accomplishments. He was a great man, and his legacy to the city of Portland includes a wing in the University Hospital, where wonderful eye care is available. My jobs at G-P included a couple of years in plywood sales, where everyone knew who Ken Ford was. And, Fred Anderson's fame was not only limited to the building products industry, but the football and basketball worlds, as well.

That's not to denigrate all those other great people we lost who just weren't quite as famous. From my little world, I well remember Jack Powell, Rick Houk, Bill Hancock and Don Sundstrom to name a t'ew from whom I learned this business, and George McConnell and Frank Diamantine, retailers who were kind to a rookie sales rep when they scarce had the time.

It is said to everything there is a season. Like the forests these people relied upon for their livelihoods, it would seem that the building products industry is also going through a constant process of regeneration.

Claudia Cowan

Horizon Forest Products

Box 5325

Richmond, Ca.94805

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Hill, Al., plywood plant.

MB will also close seven of 30 DCs, including Spokane, Wa., and is exiting the groundwood paper business, possibly through a spin-off.