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L. A. guests, after which Jim Forgie, Snark of L. A. Club 2 told of plans for the April 19 Hoo-Hoo luncheon of all Southland clubs in conjunction with the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. convention at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. Snark Forgie also told of the present irlans of Club 2 including its fall dealer training course.

Holdren prefaced his introduction of Beauchaine r,vith tribute to his aides in Clntb ll7, "the best help any officer could possibly have.'1 The San Diego Hoo-Hoo Quartet, which has been invited to sing at the SCRLA convention, gave a rousing bunch of numbers to the delight of the crowd.

The president then told of the great success of the current Retail Lumber Training Institute which it is sponsoring on a Riverside campus. He honored Jerry Westphal of the Inland Lumber Company for his unflagging devotion to the course since its inception, and Westphal, in turn, introduced the moderator of the course, Dr. Wendell Close, whom he highly praised.

Dr. Close, a young Ontario, Calif., educator, gave credit to Holdren, Westphal and Bill Davidson, Don Oakes and Jim Tipton among others for the pace at which the dealer course there has succeeded. Westphal, Tipton and Don Derbes, former Club 117 president rvho operates a palm Springs retail yard, are members of the class themselves.

If you have any doubts of the popularity of this class, which is similar to the one the Los Angeles club will hold this fall, listen to Dr. Close's words:

"The dealer-training course was limited to 4O-45 students