Masonry Magazine March 1979 Page. 32
People & Events
John P. "Jay" Gleason has been elected president of the Brick Institute of America by its board of directors. Gleason joined BIA in April 1977 as executive vice president. Tom Krallman of Herman Krallman & Son, Inc. has been elected president of the Unit Masonry Association of Greater Cincinnati. Other officers elected were Ed Raney of Brickcast, Inc., vice president, and Ron Lehman of Cincinnati Builders Supply Co., secretary-treasurer. The Calaveras Cement Division of The Flintkote Co., San Francisco, Calif., has added Larry E. Wright to its sales staff. Bush, Inc. (MCAA) has moved its headquarters to Ill Bush Rd., P.O. Box 17070, Nashville, Tenn. 37217. The new phone number is (615) 367-2945.
TCI Power Products, Inc., Yankton, S.D., manufacturer of rough terrain material handling equipment, has announced the appointments of Michael Roy as director of engineering and Robert Benjamin as vice president of sales/marketing. Ronald L. Samuels has been named vice president of marketing of Herbert Materials Incorporated, producer of diversified building products. Harold "Bud" Gilley, formerly regional engineer in Michigan for the American Institute of Steel Construction, has joined the American Concrete Institute in Detroit as director of education. Marion Brick, Marion, Ohio, has elevated Clyde Amonett to Washington (D.C.) district sales manager and added Kurt Pfaff to the field sales staff.
Alan R. Veverka, P.E. has been named an associate member of Donald W. Smith Associates, Lakewood, N.J., consulting engineers, planners and surveyors. The mason contracting firm of F. F. Kirchner, Inc., Bridgeton, Mo., has elected Harold Clark vice president of the firm. Clark serves on the marketing committee of the Missouri Concrete Masonry Association and as industry adviser to the Masonry Institute of St. Louis. William Paxton & Associates, Inc., a consulting structural engineering firm formerly based in Southfield, Mich., has moved its staff and operations to a restored building in downtown Detroit "to express its president's belief in the city Renaissance." The new headquarters is located at 512 Brush in the former Claydale lale Hotel, an 80-year-old restored building at the corner of Larned.
MCMC Exhibits at Expo
The Metropolitan Chicago Masonry Council was an exhibitor at the Home and Apartment Expo '78 "Festival of Values" held recently at the O'Hare Exposition Center, Rosemont, Ill. More than 7,500 spectators toured the many building construction displays at the show.
A high priority for visitors was registering for drawings to receive one of the four brick wishing wells which helped to decorate the building. Part of MCMC's display urged builders to consider concrete block foundation walls rather than poured concrete for their next structures because of the more efficient use of cement in block foundations.