Masonry Magazine January 1967 Page.26
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Olson Named President
Ampress Brick Company, Inc. of 1269 Golf Road, Des Plaines, Illinois announces that Hale W. Olson, the former Vice President, has taken over as President of the Company. Mr. Olson has been with the company for 17 years and will continue to direct the Company's activities as a producer of concrete block, brick and specialties. He will be assisted by H. A. Christiansen, who has been promoted to Vice-President. W. A. Anetsberger, the company founder and former president, is retiring.
Farley SCPI Secretary
Charles N. Farley, 32, has been named Corporation Secretary of the Structural Clay Products Institute. The announcement was made by Executive Director Richard W. Otterson at the Institute's 29th annual convention here at the Greenbrier.
Farley, a political science-law major and engineer at SCPI's research department, thus succeeds Thomas S. Lennon who was appointed executive secretary of the National Association of Dealers and Distributors of structural clay products.
The corporation secretary who is elected by the Institute's Board of Directors, coordinates the annual convention and supervises administrative and general services.
Farley, a native of Des Moines, hold a B.S. from Drake University and has been with the research department (formerly the Structural Clay Products Research Foundation at Geneva Ill.) since 1958. He held positions as lab supervisor, business manager and research engineer.
Honor Harry Plummer
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awarded on behalf of SCPI's Board of Directors by Executive Director Richard W. Otterson.
The gold-bound B&TE is the first copy of the 6th and latest printing, and means 52,000 copies are now in print. Authored by Plummer, it marked one of the major achievements of his career, and the first time in the 2000 year history of clay products that all technological data was assembled in one text. Begun in 1934, it was first published as "Brick Engineering" in 1939.
In Memoriam
HARVEY W. STEIFF
Harvey W. Steiff, 55, Regional Sales Manager, Zonolite Division, W. R. Grace & Co., was stricken fatally with a heart attack in Minneapolis, Minn. November 5, 1967.
Steiff, known to legions of friends in the building industry, has been associated with Zonolite for 32 years. After graduation from Iowa State College, he served briefly in a sales capacity with the Sheffield Steel Corp. in Kansas City, then joined Zonolite Company in Detroit in 1935. He returned to his native Iowa as a sales representative for Western Mineral Products, Zonolite licensees for an 8-state area in the upper Midwest.
He became sales manager of Western Mineral Products Co. in 1946, transferring to the firm's Minneapolis headquarters, and was elected vice-president-sales in 1950.
In 1954, Steiff was elected to the board of directors of the Vermiculite Institute, and served as that organization's president in 1956.
Apprentice Opportunities
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discipline of learning is no stranger to him. For his two or more years of military service, he is a better man.
It would seem to me that one of the most effective means for resolving the continuing skilled manpower problem in the apprenticeable trades rests in the ranks of our returning veterans.
More than this, the returning veteran offers industry and labor a monumental and no more timely opportunity to dissipate the plague of skilled manpower shortages and simultaneously to reward those men who fought for us in one of late history's ugliest and dirtiest conflicts.
The returning veteran also provides the occasions for both labor and in-masonry Nov./Dec., 1967