PERSONALS

Gayle Morrison, head of Sunset Moulding Company at Live Oak, r'ecently letulned flom a 3 l'eek business trip through the Midrvest and llast Coast.

Arcata Reclu.ood's Lloyd Hecathom and Ilruno Nardi, o\\.ner of Diablo Transportation, scored big last month rvhile on a Nevada hunting expedition.

llo Ahrens, sales managel of DiamondNational's u'oodrvorkirrg division at Chico, California, spent the month of October in quest of business in the Southeast and East Coast aleas.

Herb llickell, paltnel in Bickell Btothers, Mountain View, r'ecently leturned flom three weeks in Idaho with Freddy Holmes and his crack band of huntsmen.

Stan Ilznekier, head of E. L. Br:uce's westeln sales division, spent a s.eek during early October in Chicago attending the big railload convention and calling on Bluce accounts in the Gleat Lake atea.

Lelloy McCormick, Simpson Timbel Company, Seattle, attended a California Redwood Association meeting in San Francisco on October 1, and was appointed head of the association's impoltant plomotion Committee fol the coming CRA year'.

Boy Scout softball coach, hardwood executive of Los Angeles and prominent committee menlber of Hoo-Hoo Club 2, Harold Cole, and Walt McKeen, Redlands sawmill operator, spent thg last two weeks of October around Fillmore, Utah on a deer hunting expedition. They both "bagged" a buck.

Johns-Manville Corp. employees (ieorge T. Anderson, Allison J. Haun and Svend Pederon have become rnembers of the San Francisco chapter of the company's Quar- ter Century Club.

Vice President A. I). Wilkinson has been named general managier of Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s Shasta division.

Paul Snell, Foltuna Builders Supply, Foltuna, Califolnia, has just leturned from Neblaska *'hele he visited relatives and got in some sightseeing.

Harry Stewart, ownel of San Ramon Valley Mill ct Lumber Co., Danville, Califolnia, spent the rveek of October 14 at Orleans, where he pul'sued the elusive steelhead on the Klamath.

John Stegman, formel partner in Lakepolt Lumber' & Supply, is now in the contracting business on his o\\'n. Folmer paltner', Nlike Zapponi, continues as o\I,ner of Lakepolt Lumber & Supply.

Grant Hall, San Diego lumberman, and attlactive rvife Helene, will I'ind up their six month toul of Eulope the encl of November'. They expect to be home in time to spend Thanksgiving.

Eugene Gauthier, Ilncinitas letail lumber yard orvner', and his u'ife, spent tht'ee weeks of Octobel visiting r.elatives and friends in eastern Canada. They prefer to travel by train, starting their trip fr.om Califolnia via the Super Chief.

The 66th Annual National Har.dwood Lumber Assn. convention at the Sherman House in Chicago, October. 1-2, dr.ew a good representation of noltheln California lumbermen, among' them: Ilob Kahn and Dick Quarg, Forsyth Har.dwood Co.; Gunter Silmar, Silmalco, Inc.; Don White, White Blothels (and nervly elected 1st vice-plesidcnt of NHLA); Bill llaclleath, MacBeath Haldwood Co.; Jim Higgins, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co.; Harry Jordan and Parker Scott, Jordan-International Co.; and J. S. IIacKay, Amelican Intelnational Hardrvood.

Jim Giles, owner. of Monument Lun-rber Company, Pleasant Hills, took in the third Wolld's Selies squeaker in Dodger.land and lil<e most of us founcl himself r.ootine National League all the rvaS-.

Art llecker, Spring Valley retailer, made a fast tlip to South Dakota last month on a hunting safali. He plomised his friends, including Carl Gavotto, deer and pheasant. Hope his luck u'as good.

Gus Lusardi, partner in the fir.m of CalMex Lumber Co., well on his way to recovery foilorving a slight heart condition. He is now back on the job calling l-ris customels in old Mexico.

Ilob Smith, Angelus Haldu'ood salesman, writes from Montreal that he is having a ball. Expected to spend three weeks in Canada before returning to the Lr.S.A.

Paul Campbell, Trojan Lumber, boated a 116 lb. mar'lin lecently off Catalina Island in his sports-fisherman Wandasea. It took Paul only 40 minutes to bring tl-re beauty to Eaff.

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H. P. Plummer Appointed New ALS Choirmqn

H. Pierson Plummer, Vice President of the Union Lumber Company, has been appointed try Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges to the American Lumber Standards Committee, to fill the vacancy le{t ,by the death of Carl W. Bahr, Vice President for Sales of The Pacific Lumber Company. Mr. Bahr, who had been a member of the committee {or many years was chairman at the time of his death.

The American Lumber Standards Committee, founded in 1924 by joint efiort of the Department of Commerce and the industry, is currently discussing standardization of sizes of softwood lumber.

Except for three years with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, Mr. Plummer has been with the lumber industry and the Union Lumber Company since graduation from the Uni' versity of California in 1939. He was appointed Vice President and Assistant to the President of Union in July, 1962, moving from Fort Bragg to San Francisco to take the post. He is an alternate member of the Board of Directors of the National Lumber Manu' facturers Association.

Purdue Est<rblishes Industry Educ<rtion, Troining Center

Purdue University, seven building industry firms and three allied associations have announced the establishment of the Build' ing Industry National Educational Center (BINEC) to be headouartered in Purdue's mammoth Memorial Center.

Founded with $50,000 in pledges from the seven firms and three associations, itwill develop and conduct industry-wide educational and training programs, initially in retail marketing of building materials.

Donald Fl. Rons, who joined the Purdue staff in August, will be program specialist. Arthur A. Hood, independent consultant to the building industry, Los Altos, Calif., will advise on early BINEC educational activities.

Founders, each o{ rvhom contributed $5,000 for support of the center, are: Allied Concord Financial Corp., Bayport Foundation (Andersen Corp.), Armstrong Cork Co., Douglas Fir Plywood Association. n'{asonite Corp., National Gypsum Co., National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association; National Lumber Manufacturers Association, U. S. Gypsum Co. and Veyerhaeuser Co.

Representatives of each of the firms will serve on a Council of founders. An educational guidance committee will consist oI permanent representatives from Purdue and N.L.B.M.D.A., and rotating members, serving three-year terms, from the founders, federated associations and the N.L.B.M.D.A. education committee.

The educational guidance committee will offer advice on the type, length, number and continuity of BINEC courses as well as suidance on courses required for certification.

dons said the first program will be in operation by February, 1964. Plans call for operating training programs on the Purdue campus-serving industry members on a national basis.

Concurrently, it is expected to operate specialized correspondence courses for industry personnel as well as train program instructors rvho will {unction in building industry educational programs elsen'here.

The center also will act as a clearing house for development, testing and refinement of text material, outlines, instructional packages, audio-visual aids and program materials for the industry.

Ultimately, the center will assist other universities and regional associations in setting up regional educational centers, thereby {orming a national educational network for the building industry.