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Annual WBMA Products Show

"Customer service, not lip service" will be the slogan for the Western Building Material Association's annual convention/building products showcase, Nov. 10-13 at the Tacoma Sheraton Hotel, Tacoma, Wa.

In addition to supplier, product and service exhibits, the meeting will feature outstanding industry seminars and speakers. Dave McCulloch, Computer System Dynamics, Denver, Co., will moderate quick pitch selling talks by exhibitors to get things rolling after the welcome breakfast Nov. I l. The "Under The Big Top" building products showcase at the Sheraton Bicentennial Pavilion will be open from ll:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Beau Hamilton, president, The Hamilton Co., Bellevue. Wa.. will pose the question "HowDo You Know When You Are Doing Good?" at the keynote breakfast on the second day of meetings. Following his summary of practical ways to measure customer service, the building products showcase will be open from 9 a.m. to noon. An awards luncheon follows.

Afternoon speakers: Charles A. Mouser, Camco, Inc., Crewe, Va., on customer service and Thao Tiedt and Michael R. Rayton, labor relations attorneys from Seattle, Wa.. discussing personnel law changes.

Kurt Kilpatrick will entertain at the presidents banquet that evening.

Thursday sessions will open with a seminar on "Positioning Strategies of the Nineties" conducted by Brent Taylor, president, The Taylor Group, Greensboro, N.C. Spouses will be honored at lunch with Doris

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Kennedy Steussy discussing "How To Avoid Financial Chaos Before Tragedy Strikes Your Family." An optional tour of the Domtar Gypsum plant will follow.

A sub theme of the meeting, entertainment, fellowship and idea sharing with other dealers and suppliers, will be furthered during the Western All Industry Reception Saturday evening, Nov. 10, and one open evening. A program of tours and speakers has been arranged for spouses.

W.O.O.D. Inc. Gelebrates SOth

Celebrating its 3Oth anniversary, W.O.O.D. lnc., Denver, Co., has a full calendar planned including production and sale of "l Love Wood" bumper stickers and 30th anniversary logo seals.

Bob Milner, Home Lumber Co., is president for the anniversary yeal Mark Barnes, Koppers Industries, president-elect; Jeff Steele, Home Lumber, secretary-treasurerl Tom Chase, Kellogg Lumber; Anson Garnsey, Stark Lumber; Blake Hutchison, Hutchison-Western; Craig Martin, Snavely Forest Products; Bill Rehm, Specialty Wood Products; Keith Simpson, R-W Specialties; Lee White, Boise Cascade, and Alice Wooley, Barnette Lumber, directors: Scott Yates. Denver Lumber, immediate past president; Ellen Caruso, executive director, and Pat Schumann, bookkeeper.

NAWLA Management Program

The North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA) , in conjunction with the University of Virginia Mclntire School of Commerce, will hold its Executive Management Institute, Jan. 6-l I, 1991, on the University of Virginia campus. Charlottesville. Va.

"The NAWLA Executive Management Institute is a revolutionary idea in senior-level management education." comments NAWLA education committee chairman Steve Snavely, Snavely Forest Products, Chandler, Az. "NAWLA members working with the faculty of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, have developed an executive seminar emphasizing rigorous coursework. The program is taught by a faculty with both 'real-world' experience and research skillsresearch that has led to innovations in the business world as well as in the Institute's curriculum."

The NAWLA Institute offers a unique blend of innovative ideas, nuts and bolts information, new food for thought, relevant case studies developed from both inside and outside the lumber industry, and practical solutions to current and future challenges.

For registration information contact the North American Wholesale Lumber Association, 3601 Algonquin Road, Suite 400, Rolling Meadows, Il. 60008. Telephone: (708) 870-7 470.