Roles

MCAA PRESIDENT Richard Felice, left, accepts the honorary "retired" gavel of office during the annual banquet Monday night, February 11, at the Peabody Hotel. Making the presentation was George A. Miller, center MCAA executive vice president.

CONFERENCE REPORT

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in the Knoxville Room of the Opryland Hotel. Following roll call and the filing of reports by Officers, Regional Vice Presidents and Committee Chairmen, the Chair called upon Charles Velardo, Ch

Dee Brown, MCAA President, is joined by Past Presidents Eugene George, W. C. Dentinger, Jr., Charles Velardo and Don Leonard.

Laborers International Union of North America; Carl Booker
National Lime Association; Ken Gutschick
Building S

Reinforcing, production and a masonry panel check list. It's a thorough, professional job that has been well planned and executed, and should be a model for other masonry panel contractors pursuing this line of work.

Masonry Systems Marketing S

MCAA CONFERENCE
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Annual Meeting
On Tuesday afternoon, President Dentinger called the Annual Meeting of the membership to order. Following a prayer by Past President Don Leonard, Executive Vice President George Mil

AIA Jury Designates Four Firms to Receive
Top 1985 IMI Awards

The Regional Office of the International Masonry Institute recently awarded its four highest distinctions for New England masonry design to four Massachusetts-based architectura

Boston's historic Faneuil Hall stands as a backdrop for the bricklaying competition. (Photos by Bob Rhault)

37th Annual Massachusetts Bricklaying Contest held in Boston

The 37th annual Massachusetts Bricklaying Contest, join

COPING
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Many other committees could be mentioned-Constitution and Bylaws chaired by Charles Velardo, Contract Research chaired by Brad Procter, Finance chaired by David B. Soloff, Jr., Membership chaired by Gene Lee. Bu

Contestant Linda Wass of Middleborough works on her project
(left) while her peers work on piers of their own.

Bricklaying Contest Held at JFK Presidential Library
The 35th annual bricklaying contest for apprentices of the Massachusett

IMI MEETING
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Bruce Voss, executive director of IMI's Apprenticeship and Training Program, described three newly-produced audiovisual packages on "Pre-assembled Panels," "Pavers in Cement Mortar" and "The Trowel Trades: Crafts that

The masonry industry today is gripped by the deepest, most prolonged depression of building markets since the 1930s. For most members of our Association, this is an event without parallel-our fathers lived through a worse depression, but the m

Mason Contractor News

Karl Kehm Retires from Mason Contracting Field

After 35 years in the construction business, Karl Kehm, Jr., president of Kehm Construction Co., Omaha, Neb., a leading mason contracting firm, announced his retireme

A happy group of diners at MCAA's Annual Banquet consisted of these MCAA past presidents (from left): Eugene George (1978-79), Allen Young (1970-71), Bob Ebeling (1976-77) and Charles Velardo (1974-75). With them are wives Pat George, Louise Yo

Simmons urged mason contractors to consider design/build work, instead of bidding jobs, saying they can make more than 30% profit on a turn-key job and "still give the owner an attractively priced building."

"Apprenticeship a

MCAA Conducts Summer Executive Board Meeting In Woodstock, Vermont

Amid the secluded and beautiful rolling hills of historic New England, the MCAA conducted its 1981 Summer Executive Board Meeting at the picturesque Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, V

MCAA BOARD MEETING
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This document and all of the matters surrounding it were thoroughly discussed and adopted by the MCAA Board.

Following these discussions, the Chair appointed members as well as their alterna