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Dealer School House

Pictured here are a portion of the 3 5 students who participated in the recent 4th annual Building Material Marketing Course sponsored by the Western Building Material Association, which has its headquarters in OlYmPia, Wa., and serves members in three Northwest states and Alaska. The photo was taken on the final daY, when the grouP toured the General Hardwoods Co., American Plywood Assn. Research Center in Tacoma and Palmer G. Lewis Co.. Auburn, Wa.

BMMC #5 begins JanuarY, l9'7 6 and already enrollments have been received, according to WBMA exec. director Ross Kincaid.

Included in the Picture (l-r) are: Don Smoot, Cascade Lumber Co.; Gary Ferrell, Ferrell Lumber Co.; Craig Knoll, Knoll Lumber & Hardware Co.; Bob Knudson, Knudson Lumber Co.; Gwyneth Thorsen, WBMA; Jim Eichholtz. New Lumber & Hardware Co.: Stuart Beckemeier, QuincY Lumber Co.; Leonard Johnson, Carl's Building Supply; Jim Strode, Evergreen Lumber, Inc.; Aaron Potts, Model Lumber Co.; Don Mclalwain, Williams True Value Home Center;Wilfred Vos, Quincy Lumber Co.; Greg Fluegge, Bilington Builders SuPPtY; Mike Carty, BaYview Lumber; Kris Clark, Keen & Howard's Inc.; Duane Wilson, Lumbermen's of Washington; Steve Cockerham, Lepley Lumber; Ross Kincaid, WBMA.

AMERICAttI Wood Council's new president, Harold C. Ellicott. director of corporate communications for Georgia-Pacific, (left) was elected at recent 7th annual meeting, Portland. Boyce Price, (center) AWC exec. v.p., joins Ellicott in presenting plaque to past president Harold D. Dagg, MacMillan Bloedel. Fall promotional plans include greater emphasis on single family detached housing, less on larger scaled planned communities, design and construction of custom idea houses for consumer publications.

Housewares Film is Socko

A total of 4,179 consumer group bookings for "The Housewares Story" movie have been scheduled since the National Housewares Manufacturers Association's film was premiered at the NHMA National Housewares Exposition a year ago.

Nearly 190,000 viewers have already seen the consumeroriented motion picture about America's $18 billion housewares business. Film bookings to date run through May,l976.