Masonry Magazine October 1974 Page. 13
Dash Named Director of Washington MI
Kenneth S. Dash, formerly marketing director of the Brick Institute of America, has been appointed executive director of Masonry Institute, Inc., Washington, D.C., succeeding the late Winfield S. Holland.
Prior to coming to BIA, Dash was a writer with two management consulting firms in the Washington area. He has been a regular contributor to Masonry, and one of his columns appears in this issue.
Dash is a journalism graduate from American University in Washington and has been named to "Who's Who in U.S. Colleges and Universities." Masonry Institute, Inc. is the leading authority on masonry promotion in the Washington area whose advertising appears on Washington television and radio and in newspapers and magazines.
U. of Texas Offers Study In Masonry Engineering
A course in masonry engineering will be offered for the first time in the College of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin in the spring term of 1975 beginning January 13. The three-credit-hour, one-semester course was instituted after a recognition by the civil engineering faculty of the considerable increased use of frameless structural systems for high-rise buildings and the $5 billion annual volume of masonry construction in the United States.
Although a graduate course in masonry structural systems has been offered at the university for several years, the new course will offer upper-division undergraduates their first opportunity to learn the principles of masonry design. The new course is the first such course offered in any college of engineering or architecture east of the Rocky Mountains.
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1974
November 14-17. MCAA Fall Executive Board Meeting, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Bourbon Street, New Orleans, La. Contact: MCAA Executive Office, 208 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, III. 60604.
November 17-22. Committee Week, American Society for Testing & Materials, Williamsburg, Va. Contact: ASTM 1916 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103.
December 8-13. Committee Week, American Society for Testing & Materials, Sheraton Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. Contact: ASTM, 1916 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103.
1975
February 12-15. 8th Annual Conference, Canadian Masonry Contractors Association, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Toronto, Ont. Contact: Mrs. E.H. Bertolin, Exec. Secy., CMCA, 134 Oakdale Rd., Downsview, Ont. M3N 1V9.
February 19-23. MCAA 25th Annual Convention & Educational Trade Show, Orlando Hyatt House, Orlando (Kissimmee) Florida. Contact: MCAA Executive Office, 208 South La Salle Street, Chicago, III. 60604. Area Code 312/726-5742.
April 14-18. National Meeting, American Society of Civil Engineers, New Orleans, La.
Fast driving and fast living can get you to the finish line too soon.
masonry • October, 1974