HALLI NAN MACKIN

a lumberyard, becoming manager of the business at the age of. 21.

He spent several years in that position before he moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., and started his own lumberyard, which he operated successfully for three years until he sold it to become secretary of the Grand Rapids Lumber Co., one of the largest operations in Michigan. Three years later he organized the Robert K. Jardine Lumber Co., which he operated several years and then sold it to a company consolidating a number of yards, and in which he became vice-president of the new company for five years.

Mr. Jardine has always been strong in civic activity. He served as vice-president of the Grand Rapids Associatior-r of Commerce, clirector of Builders and Traders, member of the Board of Public Works, director of the Michigan Lurnbermen's Association, the Welfare Union, Rotary, Elks, served as secretary of the Michigan State Hospital Commission for five years, was active in the Community Chest and was much in demand as a toastmaster and also as a soloist. He graduated as a lieutenant from the first Officer's Training Camp at Plattesburg, N.Y. During his years in lumber in Michigan, Bob Jardine alsc wrote for a lumber trade journal.

In the fina1 years of the depression, Mr. Jardine lost all his stocks, investments and his business and came to California in his late fifties to make a fresh start. He became affrliated with the old Hammond Lumber Compar.rv in its main office in Los Angeles and continued his good works serving as senior usher in the First Congregational church for 17 of the years he was with Hammond Lumber. In 1939 he met ar.rd married his present wife, Joy Languein, and continued with Hammond for 20 years until thev liquidated in 1956, and Mr. Jardine was forced at the age if 76'to onre more make a change and start out again in a new job.

Bob Jardine's dream had always been to live in a small town near the Pacific Oiean, .o he ruus most haopy when V. M. Capesius and his secretary, N{rs. Peterson, of the San Diego Lumbermen's Association, put him in touch with Heischell Larrick of the Lumber & Builders Supply in Solana Beach. Mr. Jardine gratefully accepted a position with the beach yard and is now .starting his third year with this splendid and esteemed organization. He is very h"ppy with his association and co-workers and thoroughly enjoys his walk of a mile or more to the office each morning with the tang of the sea air in his nostrils (and his eye to the future).

Bob Jardine's philosophy of life, along with his faith and indomitable courage, is an inspiring example to others as he continues along the path toward the sunset. He lives with his wife Joy in a modest, attractive home on a hillside overlooking a wide expanse of the Pacific where he spends his leisure hours with his books, music and working in his treasured garden.