Retoil Lumber Trcrining lnsfirute clt Stclrting Post

First SCRTA - Hoo-Hoo Clcrss Will Convene in September; Rercril Yord Employes Proise Benefits of Riverside Term

"THE TIME HAS COME when we must make definite and final arrangements with the schools to hold a training course for the young men and women in our industry commencing in September with the fall term of college," said Executive Vice-President Orrie W. Hamilton for the Southern California Itetail Lumber Association in his bulletin of August 3 to members of the SCRLA.

"It is nor,v essential that rve receive your enrollment for the forthcoming Retail Lumbermen's Training Institute your club is co-sponsoring n'ith Southern California Retail Lumber Association and rvhich rvill begin in mid-September," said Snark James H. Forgie of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 in an earlier bulletin.

And in order to stimulate enrollment in this extremely worthwhile training course, The CALIFORNIA LUN{BER MERCHANT cooperates in pointing out the great good rn'hich can come to retail yard personnel from such study by printing here excerpts from actual comments of the turnarvay registration which greeted the first area Retail Lumbermen's Training Institute in Riverside, Calif., last winter and this spring.

The Los Angeles classes rvill also be coordinated by Dr. Wendell Close, former head of the Columbia University

Night School, Department of Sales Management, who rvill moderate selected talks of guest lecturers, mostly from the industry. Young Dr. Close coordinated the Riverside retail institute, rvhich \vas an educational project of Riverside County lloo-Hoo Club 117, and rvhich was so over-subscribed by retail yard employes eager to improve themselves that the classes there 'ivill have to be resumed this rvinter for the overflow enrollment.

Enrollment in the SCRLA-Hoo-Hoo training institute for Los Angeles area lumberyards is quite substantial already but the students are enrolling from widely scattered areas, with the largest number frorn Pasadena-Arcadia; others from the Whittier-Santa Ana sector, Long BeachWilmington area, and the coastal sector west of Los Angeles and from the Valley. As soon as the maximum enrollment is reached, a choice of the closest schools must be made in which to hold the classes, which is rvhy the SCRLA and Hoo-Hoo Club 2 must have YOUR intention to enroll your retail yard personnel NOW.

The registration fee is only $40 per student per semester; this may be paid by either the yard or the student.

The actual comments that follow, gathered verbatim from retail yard employes enrolled in the recent Riverside Retail Lumber Training Institute (the pattern for tl-re coming Los Angeles course) were compiled and furnished to The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT by Gerald R. Westphal of Inland Lumber Company. Jerry was chairman of Club 117's Educational committee and the successful Hoo-Hoo Institute coordinator.

Now let the students speak their olvn summary statements of the valuable knowledge obtained from the Retail Lumber Training Institute :

"I have enjoyed this series of classes very much. A lot of the material will be retained, some will be forgott€n. I believe that all dealers of the Hoo-Hoo of Riverside and San Bernardino counties should see that ALL of their employes get to attend the next series of classes that will be coming up later in the year."

I Human Relations

"This will probably be the hardest one of our four subjects to lvrite on. This is the one item that rnost of us iust took for sranted. Most of us possibly gave it no thought until our- l)resent course. We people being in the lumber business figuled that every custorner