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UCIA to Start Construction Course

Recognition of the size and importance of Southern California's construction industry is pointed up r,vith announcement of a construction management course, first in the U. S., to start at the University of California at Los Angeles. I\fembers of the education committee of the Building Contractors Association of California rvorked with the UCLA faculty in planning the course, t'hich rvill start this September.

"No industry plays a more important role in maintaining national prosperity than the building industry, and in no other section of the nation has it been more significant than in Southern California," said Dean Neil H. Jacoby, School of Business Administration, UCLA, in announcing the new construction course.

John Meskell, president of the BCA, called the new course "one of the most forward-looking steps ever undertaken for the advancement of the industry." He said such a course had long been an aim of the NAHB, and that tl-re BCA, its largest affiliate, is the first member group to accomplish this purpose.

North, Jr., on Producerst Gouncil

Henry E. North, Jr.., president of Arcadia Metal Products, Southern California manufacturer of sliding glass doors, has been elected to the post of national director on Producers' Council, Inc., organizatron of leading manufacturers in the building products field. He is the only SoCal member of the grouP.