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JAY O'MALLEY

(Continued from page 14) able to gain 30 pounds. Soon he was fit enough to work mornings as a collector for the Phoenix Roofing Co. which the O'Malleys acquired in 1926. By 1937 he was fully recovered and transferred to the main office as a counter salesman and estimator.

When Williams, Luke, Thunderbird and other air bases were built during the early '40s, O'Malley's supplied much of the material. Jay remembers he became acquainted with many of the top military and civilian personnel including Lt. Col. Dennis "The Menace" Whitehead who later gained prominence in the Pacific theater of operations.

When he was drafted in 1942, because of his knowledge of lumber he was assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, Oh., in the non-metallic unit of aircraft scheduling which allocated lumber and plywood for the airforce. Although he was a private, a special memo specified that he was to be called "Mr. O'Malley" so that commissioned officers dealing with him on phone would not know his rank.

He tells of one call that came from a general on the West Coast. The call was turned over to "our Mr. O'Malley who is the expert on lumber."

"Someone out here says that we can't use redwood for crating and boxing engines and parts for shipment. Is that the case?" the general asked.

"Of course not," he replied, "redwood is perfectly safe for crating. "

"Thank you, Mr. O'Malley," the general said and hung up.

Recalling this anecdote, Jay muses that his remarks would not have been accepted very quickly if the general had known he was talking to a private.

After graduating from Officer Candidate School as a 2nd lieutenant, he was in charge of the allocation of lumber and plywood for all bases and depots on the West Coast, stationed in Portland, Or., for two years. He was mustered out in 1946 with the rank of captain and returned to Phoenix as sales manager for all O'Malley yards. In a short time he was named secretary of The O'Malley Lumber Co. In the late '60s he became senior v.p. of The O'Malley Companies, advancing to chairman of the board in 1973.

Throughout his career, Jay has worked actively for the betterment of the industry. He was a two-term president of the Arizona Lumber and Builders Supply Association, and served on numerous committees for the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association. After serving as both first and second vice president, he was elected president of the NLBMDA in 1958.

In 1952 as chairman of the material handling and transportation committee, he was successful in getting the railroad freight rate for lumber in Arizona reduced by 310/0. Arizona became the first state to have a genuine incentive loading rate reduction and later the committee obtained a l2Q per 100 wt. reduction nationally.

A longtime friend of Sen. Barry Goldwater, who grew up with him in Phoenix, Jay was chairman of the national Americans for Goldwater

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Fremont specializes in a large inventory of high quality Douglas fir boards, dimension, long lengths and timbers shipped from select mills in British Columbia, Oregon and California. We are constantly adding to our selection of western red cedar, pine, hemlock and white fir. Other species and specialty items are inventoried and included in our weekly flyer sent to all Fremont customers.

Committee, a non-partisan organization. Under President Eisenhower. he served on an executive committee on housing charged with the responsibility of laying plans for rebuilding the country in case of nuclear attack. He served on the board of the United States Chamber of Commerce during the Kennedy administration.

While much of Jay's life has been devoted to the lumber and building material industry, he has been deeply involved in church and community projects. Two or three times each year he lectures at the School of Business at Arizona State University. He was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow award by the Rotary Club of Phoenix.

Always busy, he has served as a director on the National BusinessIndustry Political Action Commit- tee; City of Phoenix Commission of Housing; trustee of Northwestern Financial Investors; Arizona Building Contractors Association; director, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce; Board of Regents, University of Santa Clara; Arizona Wood Council; director, Phoenix Chapter, American Red Cross, Visiting Nurse Service, and Franciscan Renewal Center; Bishops Committee on Aging; and director, Foundation for Senior Adult Living. He was a charter member and president of the Serra Club of Phoenix; district governor, Serra International; and Grand Knight, Knights of Columbus, Marcos de Niz Council.

As a young man he won letters in basketball and baseball at prep school and his numeral in basketball in his freshman year at Santa Clara. This interest has carried over into golf which he plays with a 17 handicap.