First Anniversary Meeting of Woodwork Institute of Calilornia

l-arue Woodson, Nicolai Door Sales Co., r,r'as re-elec;ecl president of the Woodn'ork Institute of California at the first anniversary meeting of the Institute, held at San Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, January 16.

J. L. Pierce, Pacific Manufacturing Co., Santa Clara, rvas ele,cted 1st vice president; Rex Sporleder, Hollenbeck Bush Planing Mill, Fresno, was elected Znd vice president, and Jim Moore, Long-Bell Lumber Co., San Francisco, n,as elected treasurer.

Directors elected were : E. F. Atkinson, Clinton N{ill & Mfg. Co., Oakland; Arthur Bernhauer, Fresno Planing Mill Co., Fresno; Stanley Gustafson, Sierra Mill& Building Materials Co., Sacramento; Robert Hogan, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; Jack Little, Union Planing Mill, Stockton; Kenneth Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland.

President Larue Woodson presided. There were 79 present at the luncheon, a good attendance considering the rveather conditions.

Dor-rald Beach Kirby, architect, gave a talk entitled "Designed to Please," in n'hich he stressed the in.rportance of the mills getting together, and said the architects are ',villir-rg to help to make the Woodu'ork Institute program a sllccess.

Russell Bjorn, manager-director in a brief talk gave a summary of the background of the organization, and the strong foundation, it is built on.

Charles Lange talked (1) on the technical aspects of the \\/oodrvork Institute ; rvhat it has accomplished to date, and especially the results of the market surveys. (2) \\that the Institute proposes for its 1952 program, and (3) What r.nust be the eventual goal of the Woodu'ork Institute o[ California.

Entertainment at the luncheon consisted of an excellent performance by Poogi-Poogi, a magician.

The dircctors held a meeting in the forenoon.

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