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Personals

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Bob Rehwalt has joined the inside sales team at Reid & Wright's Bend, Or., distribution yard. Fred Dobbs was promoted to operations mgr., according to Les Simonson, gen. mgr.

Mike Kincheloe has been named controller at Payless Building Supply, overseeing Chico, Anderson and Susanville, Ca., stores.

Dick Matzke, formerly with Payless Cashways, has joined Cotter & Co. as group merchandise mgr.

Joan lVhittle, Redwood Coast Lumber Co., Ukiah, Ca., is back from an AustraliaA.{ew Zealand cruise.

Gary Dorchinez, Wholesale Pine Products, Denver, Co., was named pres. of W.O.O.D., Inc., succeeding Frank Pacheco, Stark Lumber, who remains on the board. Jim Adams, Chase Lumber, is pres.-elect, and Kent Tam, Capital Lumber, sec./treas. New board members: Susanne Brandt, GeorgiaPacific; Rich Buffington, BMC West, Englewood; Alan Hall, Denver Lumber; Larry Bujaci, Boise Cascade, and Bert Green, Reed Mill & Lumber.

Larry Schwarz, Adams & Son Trucking Inc., Denver, Co., was elected to the state House of Representatives.

David Miller, Michael Weinig, Inc., Chino, Ca., recently visited U.S. Hq. in Statesville, N.C.

Bob Flint, formerly with Caffall Bros. Forest Products, is the new Aurora, Wa.-based sales mgr. for Reichert Shake & Fencing Co., Toledo, Wa.

W. Henson Moore is now American Forest & Paper Association pres. and ceo.

Douglas F. Lindal has been appointed pres. and ceo of Lindal Cedar Homes, Seattle, Wa. Robert W. Lindal will become ceo and chairman of the board.

Mark Huff, Huff Lumber Co,, Santa Fe Springs, Ca., and his wife, Sarah, vacationed in Zihuatenejo, Mexico, last month.

Dave Osburn has been named mtkg. mgr. and Diane Adkin sales mgr. at Royal Rubber & Mfg. Co., South Gate, Ca.

Bill Scott, Simpson Timber Co., Arcata, Ca., is back from a business trip to Kansas City, Mo.; Salt Lake City, Ut., and Bozeman, Mt.

Charles L. Stoddard, J.H. Baxter & Co., Eugene, Or., was awarded the 1995 Award of Merit from the American Wood Preservers' Association.

Dr. Kevin Cheung, engineering support director. Western Wood Products Association, visited Kobe, Japan, to review earthquake damage.

Rob Henderson is now national business development mgr. at Custom Building Products, Seal Beach, Ca.

Jack Butson, Brady International Hardwoods Co., Renton, Wa., and his wife, Lowell, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in Australia.

Bruce Norlie, Norfield Industries, Chico, Ca., received the "Vision & Leadership in Manufacturing" award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Kevin Breen, Snavely Forest Products' intemational div., San Francisco, Ca., is back from a Malaysia trip; Tom Lapinski has retumed from Russia.

Mike McClelland, pres. and ceo, Hardware Wholesalers Inc., is the new 2nd vice chairman of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors.

Jim Brown, Arcata Redwood, Eureka, Ca., vacationed in Hawaii.

Ben Cassinerio, 44, Diablo Timber Co.. Napa, Ca., playing fullback in a Sacramento, Ca., area tackle football league, recently scored his first touchdown since 1967.

Jim Cameron, 3-C Trucking, Long Beach, Ca., participated in the national vintage motorcycle trials in Daytona Beach, Fl., which he won four out of the last five years. A national motorcycle trials in Glen Helen, near Devore, Ca., was named in his honor. His grandson, Nicolas Krueger, will be studying the rain forests in New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef. Australia, this summer.

Kristine Bruckner is the new mktg. coordinator for Distribution Management Systems,,Inc. Joan Grothe is a new computer programmer; Kurt Krueger is in PC support, and Mark Soulliere, software support.

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