Masonry Magazine February 1973 Page. 17
MCAA officers and wives posed for their official group picture immediately prior to the annual President's Reception. Shown (from the left) are Guy Apple; G.W. Veazey, Jr.; Roy Elam: Robert Tubesing: Robert Harrison: Robert Ebeling: Charles Velardo: President David B. Soloff, Jr., and O.L. Jollay. Some of their wives pictured here are Mrs. Apple, Mrs. Veazey, Mrs. Elam, Mrs. Tubesing. Mrs. Ebeling, Mrs. Soloff and Mrs. Jollay.
"I say it's time to grow up," Soloff continued. "Now is the time for us to collectively tell John Q. Public what a great product we have. We need to combine labor and capital so we can compete with any competitive product. Your association is working and growing to improve our industry. Your Executive Board and your national staff are building the leads and putting the line up. Now it's up to you to grab your trowels and get the material in the wall."
Following Soloff's comments, talks were delivered by Charles W. Miller of Miller & Associates, Atlanta, who urged mason contractors to develop more efficient methods of competing with other construction systems; BM & PIU President Thomas F. Murphy, who recommended continued cooperation between the masonry industry and the international union, and Peer Pedersen of Pedersen & Houpt, MCAA legal counsels in Chicago, who advised mason contractors to turn to professionals for sound business management techniques rather than trying to be do-it-yourselfers and jacks-of-all-trades in such critical areas as capital financing, accounting, taxes and law.
The morning of Tuesday, February 27, was devoted to Part II of the Management Institute. Slide presentations
An over-all view of the outdoor material handling display on the grounds of the Marriott Hotel. Some 20 pieces of equipment were shown by such nationally prominent manufacturers as Champ, Desa, Oury. International Harvester, TCI, Morgen, Liftmaster, Allis Chalmers, Lull, Pettibone, Champion and Koehring.
Apparently pleased with what they saw at the Trade Show were (left to right) Mrs. Evelyn Strauss: Georgia State Chairman Jim Magee; Mrs. Margaret Jollay: Garland Sherman of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. Lynn Magee, and O.L. Jollay.
In rapt attention listing to a lecture by astrologist Maxine Taylor was this ladies' group who enjoyed a variety of other social and recreational functions as well.
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