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Vqn Nuys Controctor Heqds BCA

Ernani Bernardi of Van Nuys was elected president of the Building Contractors Association of California at its recent 32nd annual congress in Coronado. He succeeds John Meskell of Pasadena. Other new officers are llarry Griffith, Anaheim, and Frank Yates, South Gate, first and second vice-presidents; Robert Roberts, San Bernardino, secretary, and Warren Hanby, San Gabriel Valley, treasurer.

The BCA now has nearly 2,000 members from Bakersfield south and Arizona west. More than 700 contractors, associates and guests attended the congress. Special awards given included the Past Presidents award to Harry Griffith, the Achievement award to Stuart Seymour, San Gabriel Valley; the Meritorious award to Retiring President Meskell, and a posthumous award to his rvidow for Russell M'

Loesch, Pasadena contractor killed in an auto accident last summer, for his services in the education of youth and helping to raise funds to bring foreign students here for study and housing them in his home; he was active in starting the new construction course at UCLA.

Policies adopted at the BCA congress were aimed at giving the association an even more vital role in Southland construction. New President Bernardi termed the 1956 program the most progressive ever offered to help the entire construction industrY.

American Forest Products Corp. is constructing a $450,000 sales and executive office building on Hyde street in San Francisco. It will be built largely of pine, cedar and redwood produced by the firm's mills.