Management techniques reviewed at meeting

BLACK & WHITE was the dress code for the banquet, so this inventive group arrived dressed as referees: (1)Dave Miesner, Rich Baskins, Stu Westlake, Tim Drury; (front) Clarice Westlake, Mary Drury. (2) New presidenl, Loren Forrister, with immediate past president Gary Moore. (3) Bernie & Diane

Tomasko, Harvey Ross. (4) Mark & Diane Setzer, Dick Petty, Bob & Nina Plunkett. (5) Tim 0'Malley, Gloria Gilbert. (6) Lynda Miesner, Len & Wilma Richert, Neal Heflin. (7) Bob Weiglein, Ed McCausland. (8) Dick Cook, Dave Lewandowski. (9) Leta Petty, Mickey Engle, Pat Allen. (10) Patrice Fonis- ter, Larry Mills. (11) Ted Allen, Sylvan Gray. (12) Tony Fantacone, Lyn Rabun. (13) Susan & Doug Wiggins, Mary & Bob Gonsalves. (14) Denise & Bob Reynolds. (15) Dave Engle, Madgel Robbins. (16) John Strock, Nancy & Erwin Hengst. (17) Earl Moore, Helen &Wally Krouse. (18) Alan 0akley. annual meeting of the Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers, Inc., in Newport Beach, Ca., Feb. 15 - 18.

Justin Y. Shimada, associate dean, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Portland, Or., briefed the group on the inner workings of the Japanese Management system. He analyzed the administrative processes and personnel and labor relations policies as well as techniques and philosophies of manufacturing unique to the system. He also detailed ways of increasing worker productivity and product quality including diagnostic techniques, productivity and quality measurement and the application of these Japanese concepts.

Bardell Bailey and Jim Jones returned for a second time to discuss the effects of tax equity and fiscal responsibility. Round table discussions and committee reports were part of the business agenda which included the election of officers.

Loren G. Forrister, vice president and assistant general manager of Forest Products Co., Albuquerque, N.M., was elected president.

Vice president last year, he succeeds Gary D. Moore, Cascade Wood Products, White City, Or., who will serve on the board of directors as immediate past president.

Other officers for 1984 are: Theodore R. Allen, Mt. Thylor Millwork, Inc., Milan, N.M., vice president, and Earl J. Moore, Corning Moulding Corp., Corning, Ca., treasurer.

New members of the board of directors include: Robert Donnelly, Contact Lumber Co., Portland, Or.; John Kirkpatrick, American Forest Products Co., Stockton, Ca.; Joe Shipman, Navajo Forest Products Industries, Navajo, N.M., and John Wall, Semans Moulding Co., Sacramento, Ca.

Board members retaining their seats from 1983 are: Timothy Drury, Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Red Bluff, Ca.; Robert Gonsalves, Western Moulding Co., Inc., Snowflake, Az.; Kieran Madden, Ponderosa Mouldings, Inc., Redmond, Or.; J.D. Robbins, Klamath Moulding Mill, Inc., Yreka, Ca.; and Jeff Setzer, Setzer Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca.