Masonry Magazine July 1967 Page. 7
# Mason Contractor News
Published by The Mason Contractors Association of America, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago 4, III.
LENNON JOINS NADD
Thomas S. Lennon, 34, has been named Executive Secretary of the National Association of Dealers and Distributors of structural clay products (NADD). The announcement was made by NADD President John F. Hallman at the group's 10th annual meeting at the Greenbrier.
Lennon was Corporation Secretary of the Structural Clay Products Institute (SCPI) thus succeeds E. J. Newbould who has joined the National Clay Pipe Institute. The NADD office is co-located in SCPI's new headquarters on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
Prior to his SCPI post, Lennon was Washington director for the Facing Tile Institute. He is a graduate of Niagara University, St. Bonaventure University, and Georgetown University Law School. As NADD secretary Lennon will coordinate and administer the dealer's sales training programs, product promotions, seminars, and general programs.
Marks Memorial Fund
The establishment of a memorial to aid heart research, in memory of the late Sidney J. Marks, Executive Vice President of Material Service, division of General Dynamics, has been announced by Patrick H. Hoy, President.
The University of Chicago School of Medicine is to be the recipient of the memorial, to be known as the Sidney J. Marks Memorial for Heart Research. The University has one of the most advanced programs in the world for the study and treatment of heart disease, and gifts to the Memorial Fund will directly assist in staffing and operating its newly-opened cardiology intensive care center in Billings Hospital.
Members of the construction industry who desire to participate may do so. Checks should be made out to: University of Chicago, Sidney J.
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Appoint Benzick
Allen B. Benzick has been named Executive Secretary for the Concrete & Masonry Contractors Association of Minneapolis. Mr. Benzick has offices at 1821 University Avenue, Room 250, St. Paul, Minn. His telephone number is a/c 612 646-2893. Mr. Benzick is not new to the masonry industry since he served the group as executive director some five years ago while employed by Glacier Sand & Gravel Co.
Calendar of Events
DECEMBER 8-9, 1967: MCAA Concrete Estimating Course, Tyrolean Town House, Milwaukee, Wis. Contact: MCAA Executive Office.
JANUARY 14-17, 1968: Associated Equipment Distributors Annual Convention, Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
JANUARY 19-20, 1968: MCAA Masonry Estimating Course, Holiday Inn Downtown, Cincinnati, Ohio. Contact Frank Moratschek, 1010 Yale Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, or MCAA Executive Office.
FEBRUARY 17-20, 1968: 18th Annual Convention & '68 MCAA Show, Marriott Motor Hotel, Atlanta, Ga.
MARCH 2-8, 1968: Annual Convention of American Concrete Institute, Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif.
JANUARY 19-22, 1969: 50th Annual Meeting of the Associated Equipment Distributors, Chicago, Illinois.
FEBRUARY 16-22, 1969: Construction Equipment Exposition & Road Show, Amphitheatre. Chicago, Illinois.
Apprentice Opportunities
The military and naval forces of our country are discharging veterans at the rate of 50,000 a month more than half-a-million a year.
Opportunities for education and training have been opened for them to help in the conversion from military to productive civilian status.
Many of these returning veterans will not be able nor have the inclination to attend college. For them the skills of apprenticeship may be the key to a highly productive career and all the personal and professional satisfactions incident thereto.
In a sense, the returning veteran is a kind of windfall for industry. It is true that his military experience will be remote in varying degrees from the apprenticeable occupations. But on the other side, the veteran is a skilled man in his own right, accustomed to both the idea and fact of training.
Honor Harry Plummer
Thirty-three years of service to the brick industry came to an end at the Greenbrier this month as more than 800 conventioneers paused to pay tribute to the retiring Harry C. Plummer.
Plummer, Dean of Engineering & Technology of the Structural Clay Products Institute was honored at the annual banquet during the brick industry's 29th convention. A gold-bound copy of "Brick and Tile Engineering" and a commemorative scroll were