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Stanford Graduate School of Business Administration, according to BMD prexy Bill Grieve.

Directors of Vancouver Plywood Company have advanced Donald I. Plummer to executive vice president and David Difford to general sales manager, according to Frost Snyder, president.

Three other executives have been made officers of that firm. Paul I. Cole, controller, has been appointed assistant secretary and assistant treasurer. C. B. Perry and Len Moyer are now assistant secretaries.

Miss Katherine E. Faynor has been named regional sales manager and public relations officer for the United States by Shipstad Wood Products, Ltd., Creston, Canada. Her new duties will include a tour of the Atlantic and West Coast regions exhibiting Shipstad's new line of wood ;by-products.

William L. Bush of San Mateo, California, has been made director of transportation for Weyerhaeuser Company. Bush's new responsibilities include the former duties of George Schafer, who retired recently as general traffic manager.

Bruce Bailey has been named vice president and general manager of Gayley Build- ing Corporation, New York, importers of European lumber, according to president Mike Mykut. Bailey will assume his new post on the retirement of present general manager Ronald Bowers late this month. Rob Mitchell will succeed Bailey's former position as wood products buyer and sales representative in Northern Europe.

Edith McDaniel, Marquart-Wolfe "Girl Friday," Hollywood wholesale firm, spent most of the month of October visiting friends and relatives in New Mexico and Texas. She is from the Lone Star state-and proud of it.

Newly appointed general manager of U.S. Plywood's Flexible Materials Division is Edward J. Krawiec. He joined the company in 1941 as an architectural service reDresentative. He vacates a five year po.i "t sales manager, continuing to headquarter at Louisville, Kentucky which is the center of his Division's operations.

Raymond T. Heilpern, U.S. Plywood Corporation secretary and general counsel, has been elected a director of that firm. Mr. Heilpern, who is a senior partner in New York law firms, has served as counselor for the company since 1938.

Lumber relatives Bob and Flo Williamson, New Philadelphia, Ohio, celebrated their 50th anniversary of the Union Country Club just 51 years after they were married.

Bestwall Certain-teed Sales Corporation has formed a new regional sales district in the Los Angeles area. The firm is the national distributor for Bestwall Gypsum Compa.ny and Certain-teed Products Corporation, building materials manufacturers. The new sales office will serve most areas of Southern California and Arizona.

Alfred E. Grazen has been appointed president and general manager of Sterling Electric Motors, Inc., Los Angeles. The firm is a subsidiary of Hathaway Instruments, Inc. Mr. Grazen was previously executive vice president of Platecraft of America and partner in Emco Industries.

Two new lumber dealer specialists of the Armstrong Cork Company's Building Products Division were recently assigned to disrict omces at the completion of the division four-month sales training program in Pennsylvania. The two are R. C. Rosc assigned to the Philadelphia district office and J. P. Gcsto to San -Francisco.

Henry Myers of Pacific-Madison Lumber: Company in Downey reports that a bunch of the fellows at the plant have organized a bowling league which gets them out of the house every Monday night. Too early in the season to tell if they are all champs.

Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, trade association of Western pine producers and stock millwork manufacturers, has named Fred G. Johnson of the Weyerhaeuser Company to head its advertising committee. The committee oversees all of the association's advertising and promotion programs.

Two from Memphis, Tennessee have been advanced by the E,. L. Bruce Company. Larry Witt has been named a vice president of that firm. He has been manager of sawmill and timber operations for Bruce's Mississippi and Alabama plants since 1954.

James H. Thrash has been named yellow pine sales manager. In this capacity he will direct sales of yellow pine lumber principally in the central and southern states.

R. T. Frost, assistant secretary of International Paper Company and division controller of IP's Long-Bell Western Opertions, has been named assistant comptroller of IP, according to J. P. Monge, vice president and treasurer. Frost will make his headquarters in New York City.

William F. Forrest, president of Forrest Industries, Inc., Dillard, Oregon, has named Ralph G. DcMoisy as general manager for the Pacific Plywood, Pacqua and Sierra Divisions of the corporation. In one of his first official moves, DeMoisy appointed Albert C. Smith as plant superintendent of the Pacific Plywood Division of Forrest Industries, Inc.

Tribute was paid to one of the foremost deans of the wholesale lum,ber industry, Edgar A. Hirsch, 78, last month by the executives of Lumber Industries, Inc. Hirsch was saluted on the occasion of his sixtieth year in the lumber industry.

While Hirsch is enthusiastic about jet aircraft and the new ag:e of speed, he is nostalgic about the early days of his career, when he traveled from mill to mill on horseback or by buggy. He also recalls fondly his firm's fleet of sturdy sailing vessels which carried lumber and piling from the Southern ports to Eastern markets,

Hugh Askew has retired as director of the Mortgage Finance Department of the National Association of Home Builders, a post he had held since March 1, 1954. His retirement punctuates a 27-yeat career in the housing field during which he has become well known in housing circles throughout the country. He is known to many as "the Colonel," a retirement rank he holds in the Arrny Reserve Corps.

John Lesser has been appointed to a newly created post of assistant sales promotion manager at United States Plywood Corporation.

Lesser joined the company's sales promotion department in 1957. Prior to that he had served in advertising, public relations and sales promotion capacities for Necchi, the Army and Air Force Exchange and the Advertising Research Foundation.

Ken Chcsnut, vice-president of Dry Creek Boys, Inc., of Sacramento, returned home last month from Idaho with a buck (four legged, that is) to his credit. Ken plans a return trip to Idaho this month for a try at an elk to boot.

Don "Corky" Corkhill, City Lumber Company, Astoria, Oregon, and his party of six sharpshooters, all got their bucks in Eastern Oregon during early October.

John McHugh, owner of McHugh Lumber Company, Mount Shasta, was a proud pop a couple of weeks ago (and rightly so!) as he journeyed up to Eugene to watch his son Tom quarterback the University of Oregon frosh team to victory. Tom, who helps his dad at the yard during vacations, was a big star on the Mt. Shasta High team during his high school days.

Anne Murray, "Girl Friday," Roy Forests

Products Co., Van Nuys, California, spent the last two weeks of October vacationing throughout Northern California. While away "resting" she visited Hoo-Hoo-Ette clubs which she helped to establish. Anne is the founder of Los Angeles club l.

Doc Cook, prominent Southern wholesale iumberman, is back on the job fully recuperated following major surgery. Doc has been identified in the distribution field for many years serving the retail dealers exclusively.

Fay Madison, president of Paci6c-Madison Lumber Company, was down from Orick in early October on a business trip to Southern California. After an extensive schedulc of business activities, he then planned to leave in mid-month for Canada and moose hunting.

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CAIIFORNIA I,IIT$BEI IIETGHANI

Enioying rhc lighrr moments of Hoo-Hoo'r onnuol mecl in ,tiiami. lefi: Voughn Juslus, Mrt. Bodogh of Toronlo, newly electcd Sno* of thc Univerce Horvcy Koll ond Mrs, Koll, ond Mrr. IVlcCrcckcn. Right: sccn ot one of thc lunchcont, clockwise: Mrs. Hubert llcynig, Konsos City; fcd Bcckcr, Konros City; Mrr. Howcy Koll, Dee Essley, Lor Ang6le3i l r:. Tcd Becker; Huben Hcynig; Ado Erlcy; ond Horuey Koll.

Harvey Koll Heads Hoo-Hoo

Gathered for their 70th annual convention at Miami Beach. members of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo elected Harvey W. Koll of Los Angeles Snark of the Universe.

Harvey succeeds retiring Snark W. Hammerschmidt of Lombard, Illinois.

A large attendance enjoyed the fourday meet, held at the Americana Hotel, which was saddened, however, by the death of two members and their wives in a plane crash enroute to the convention. These were lfarold R. Wennin- ger, associate editor of the Log & Tally and assistant to the secretary, and Mrs. Wenninger; and A. J. Mitchell, Jr., president of the TacomaOlympia Hoo-Hoo Club #89, and Mrs. Mitchell.

Convention keynoter was Jack Koellisch, editor and publisher, who on Monday delivered a stirring address"Wood and Wood p16dusfs"-'rF'61ward with lloo-lloo."

Main feature of Tuesday's session was a panel discu..lotr-'i1tr76rkshop on Wood Promotion." Presiding was Bill Peeples; on the board of moderators were Ed F. Wade, Eugene, Oregon; Lyn T. Rabun, Atlanta ; and George W. Mueth, executive vice president of National Association of Lumber Salesmen, St. Louis.

A second panel workshop was held Wednesday morning on "National Forest Products Week," Harvey A. McDiarmid, Vancouver, presiding. Featured speaker at Wednesday's Iuncheon was-S. W. Antoville. Chair-