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32 Seqttle Areo Lumbermen Attend Trqining Course Sponsored by Retoil Associstion to "ftloke Better lllen Out of Good filen"
Graduation exercises were held Tuesday evening, NIay 3, at Edison Technical School in Seattle for the 32 students completing a l2-week course in Sales Development training sponsored jointly by the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association and the Seattle Publie Schools system. Sixteen area companies were represented with their personnel.
The course was devised by the Association as a series of classrobm-workshops for employee training in the building material and retail lumber industry, according to Ross G. Kincaid, managing director. The Seattle course, he said, was evolved from experimental classes conducted at the University of Washington, the Yakima Valley Junior College, and a confer-
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ence of some 50 school directors of distributive education, with the practical advice of an advisory group of retail dealers.
It is designed to "make better men out of good men" through practical instruction and discussions of effective selling techniques, better customer relations and a thorough understanding of industry terminology, estimating, blue-print reading and a knowledge of the widely diversified products now handled by the average retailer.
Instructors were Mr. Kincaid; Wm. C. Bell, consultant, Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, and its vicepresident, Richard T. Wasson of the H. O. Seiffert Company, Everett; William Crosier of Bruce Lumber Company, Bremerton; L. R. Allan of Elliott Bay Lumber Company, Seattle; Dale Bierce of Logan Lumber Company, Seattle; George Shields of Pacific Telephone, Seattle;' Marvin, EvaPs, workshop leader of Edison TdLch'nical School, and Beth Coghlan, directoi of Distributive Education, Seattle Public Schools.

The following received their cer-
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Distribution Yord: 7257 Esst Telegroph Rood, Los Angeles 22 tificates on conclusion of the final session:
James A.. Lavik, Central Lumber and Supply; Gary and Lynn Kirkpatrick, Roy Clothier Building Nlaterials, Inc., Edmonds; Eric elauson, Dickey & Clauson; Robert L. Leaf, Kay Parks, Gordon J. Quinn and Bill \iVebster, Fairview Lumber Co.: Lawrence P. Campbell, Jr., Glendale Lumber Co.; David G. Acey and James D. Hyatt, Hansen Lumber Co.; Howard W. Hanson, Charles Knoll and George L. Osgood, Knoll Lumber & Hardware Co., Kenmore; Jack Kinne and John W. Sims, Lake City Lumber & Hardware; R. E. M. Russell, Lake City Forest Products; Jim Courtney and Wilbur Pierce, McEvoy-Rogers, {irkland, Gerald Lee Day, John L. Oard and \l[/. R. Wilcox, North Seattle Lumber; Robert Brooks, Howard E. Evans and Marvin Fifield, Sand Point Builders Supply, Mountlake Terrace; Ralph M. Harper and Leland F. Leetch, Seahurst Lumber Co.: Glen D. McGavin, Shoreline Lumber Co.; Stephen P. Slivinski and Robert E. Tibeau, Jr., Timberline Lumber Products; James A. Olsen, Totem Lumber Co., and Richard B. Quint, Washington Lumber Co.

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