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P lrlrrroal P ",,tlar"rhfi"J Glen D. Bessonette

.This keen young plywood executive was born in Beaumont, Texas. He left there with his parents at the age of two and has never been back. His parents settled in Eugene, Oregon, and Glen went through grade school and high school there and attended the University of Oregon. In school vacations he did some work in sawmills and in a planing mill, and later spent some time in the Forest Service.

While at the University of Oregon he met his future wife, Mary Belle Fobes, daughter of the late R. A. Fobes, a well known lumberman of Los Angeles for many years. After leaving school Glen and Miss Fobes were married. They spent three years in Oregon, and moved to Los Angeles, where he became associated with Pacific Mutual Door Co. in 1937 as salesman and offrce manag'er. lle was named manager of this branch warehouse after the death of Mr. Fobes in 1942. He continued as manager of the Pacific N{utual branch until the fall of 1948, when T. F. Eckstrom, former president of Pacific Mutual Door Co. and he took over the Los Angeles branch. They formed a corporation in the name of Bessonette & Eckstrom, Inc., and have continued servicing the trade with house doors and plywood as in many years past, and with greatly increased facilities in their new warehouse and yard at 2719 Compton Avenue, Los Angeles.

I\[r. and Mrs. Bessonette have four daughters ranging in age from three to 15. The two older girls are attending school in Alta{ena, where the family makes its home. They have a summer home at June Lake in the High Sierra, where Glen engages in his hobbies of hunting and lishing, using a plywood boat, which he built himself, on the lake.

Mr. Bessonette is enthusiastic about the future of the plywood business. He is particularly well informed about it and its production problems, as he spends as much time as possible at the plywood mills in order to keep up with the latest developments.

Glen is a member of Hoo-Hoo. He and his wife are square dance enthusiasts, and belong to several dance clubs.

Named a Director

Frank W. Boileau, president of the Fairfax Lumber Co. and McCormick-Tucker Lumber Co., Fairfax, has been elected a director of the Ross Valley Savings and Loan Association rvhi.ch was recently organized at San Anselmo. The Association was organized by a group of Marin County business and professional men.