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Personals (C'ontinued Jrom page 37)

Sterling Wolfe, Jr., Wolfe Lumber Co., Newport Beach, Ca., has been nominated for Entrepreneur of the year 1989 by Inc. Magazine. He was recently honored as one of l0 Orange County, Ca., businesses recosnized for inclusion on the tnc. Malazine 500 list in 1988 by Computer City Supercenter.

Roger Burch, pres., Redwood Empire, Morgan Hill, Ca., has been elected chairman of the board of the Calilornia Redwood Association, Novato, Ca. Jim Brown, gen. mgr., Arcata Redwood Co., Arcata, Ca.. is vice chairman.

Judge Godfrey is now in charge of sales

News Briefs

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WTD Industries, portland. Or.. is considering liquidatingthe Modoc Point Veneer Co. . .. their Trask River Lumber Co.. formerlv Pac i"fic Ha rdwoods- Til la moo k Co.. is being converted from a hardwood operation to a softwood stud mill..

The National Association o/' Home Builders expects the decline in housing starts to end this year, butnotwith a strong upsurge in residential building . .

Anniversaries: San Dieso flgrQware Co., San Diego, Ci., 97; Palm Avenue LunbeiCo.. Alhambra. Ca.. 50. .

& purchasing for Chemco Inc.'s new Ferndale, Wa., treating plant.

Jay Orendorff, Michelle MacKechnie and Gary Browning have joined the industrial trading staff at NeimanReed Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Ca., according to gen. mgr. Ed Langley.

Bob Welch has opened a Salt Lake City, Ut., sales oflice for Broadview Lumber & Supply, Inc., Carthage, Mo., according to sales mgr. Gary R. Kuykendall.

Dick Polsby, Los Angeles, Ca., and Ron Bretzing, Oakland, Ca., are celebrating their 25th anniversary with Georgia Pacific. G-P recently announced Employees of the Month include Greg Norman, asst. branch mgr., Riverside, Ca., and Dave Wakagawa, inside sales rep, Boise, Id.

L.A. Freightliner, Mercedes Benz & GMC Trucks, Whittier. Ca., opened a new sales and service depot in Santa Ana. Ca.. Tom-_B^erto,lino, mgr., according to Bill Scully, pres.

Potlatch is modifying its Lewiston, Id., mill to improve production. Fibreboard Corp., Concord, Ca., completed the sale of about 27 ,500 acres of timberland near Truckee. Ca.. to Sierra PaciJic Industries, Arcata, Ca. .

Ensworth Forest Products has restarted the former PVM Redwoodmill in Arcata, Ca., produc- ing lath, fencing, decking and garden products, Tom Linquist aqd Barry Savage handling sales.

Sterling Wolfe Retires

After a successful 38 year career in the lumber business, Sterling Wolfe, chairman of the board of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., has retired.

December of 1956. Subsequently, Sterling bought out his father, upon the elder Wolfe's retirement.

The company, which began as an office wholesaler, added a yard on Grove Street in Orange, Ca., operating it from 1970 to 1979, when they moved to a larger distribution yard that they occupied from 1979 to 1982. Presently headquartered in Costa Mesa, Ca., Marquart-Wolfe has a branch in Grand Terrace. Ca.. specializing in plywood and various decorative and structural panels. The

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main office is primarily a wholesale lumber office.

Succeeding Sterling is his son. Jon. president of the firm, who has been with the company for l5 years.

Active in industry interests, Sterling Wolfe has been a director in the North American Wholesale Lumber Association. Retirement interests include more travel plus tennis, a sport in which he lettered before graduating from Case Western Reserve University.

Wolfe began as a lumber salesman with the old Harry H. White Lumber Co., then located in the Petroleum Bldg., along with l0 other lumber firms, in downtown Los Angeles, Ca. On April l, 1954, he joined Marquart-Wolfe, which was then at the corner of Hollywood and Vine streets in Hollywood, Ca.

The firm had been founded the previous year in San Francisco. Ca.. by his father, Horace. The Marquart family sold its interest in the firm in

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