Masonry Magazine May 1974 Page. 11
Mason Contractor News
# MMI Holds Masonry Energy Crisis Seminar
Pictured at the speakers' table during the Minnesota Masonry Institute seminar on the masonry energy crisis are (from left) Clarence Hoekstra, vice president-sales, Ochs Brick & Tile Co.; Tom Eggen, sales manager, Charles M. Freidheim Co.; Fred McComb, regional manager, Portland Cement Association; Ken Haroldson, business agent, Bricklayers Union Local #2: Dan Waarvick, fuel allocation officer, Department of Civil Defense, and Gary Davis, architectural representative, Endicott Clay Products Co., Fairbury, Neb. Addressing the group is Tom Richardson, executive director of the Minnesota Masonry Institute.
Nearly 80 area architects and masonry industry representatives participated in a round-table discussion on the masonry energy crisis sponsored by the Minnesota Masonry Institute. Held in a Twin Cities' dinner theater, the group lunched while viewing a visual presentation, "Brick & Architecture," narrated by George E. Hartman, Jr., AIA, winner of the Louis Sullivan Award.
Leading the panel discussion and speaking on the Brick Industry were Clarence Hoekstra, Ochs Brick & Tile Co.; Thomas Eggen, Charles M. Freidheim Co., and Fred McComb, Portland Cement Association.
According to Tom Richardson, Executive Director of the Minnesota Masonry Institute, the reception to this innovative presentation was favorable with many architects expressing interest in a similar future conference.
# Masonry Council Offers Computerized Analysis
The Bergen County (N.J.) Masonry Council will be offering to area architects a computer analysis service providing preliminary conceptual design and cost studies for moderate-rise (3-12 stories) loadbearing masonry construction of apartment houses, council chairman Matthew J. Cerritelli has announced.
The unique service currently being developed for the Masonry Council jointly by Andrew F. Andersen, Wayne, N.J., architect and consulting structural engineer, and Halsey Computer Systems, Inc., Jersey City, will be available free to local architects after a thorough testing demonstration and prove-in.
# National Gypsum Dividend
Following the annual meeting of stockholders at the corporate headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y., the board of National Gypsum Co. declared a quarterly dividend of 261½ cents per share of common stock.
# ASTM Masonry Symposium
The American Society for Testing & Materials will hold its first masonry symposium in ten years in Washington, D.C. on June 25. The meeting, titled "Historical Review, Research and New Developments in Masonry (State of the Art of Masonry)," will be held in conjunction with other ASTM meetings.
Eighteen papers will be presented including three authored by BIA Engineering & Research staff members.
# Conexpo '75 Brochure
A folder which describes how the International Center at Conexpo 75 will be used to provide services to overseas visitors is now available.
Sponsored by the Construction Industry Manufacturers Association, Conexpo '75 will feature the latest in construction equipment methods and technology in a giant exposition which will use simultaneously Chicago's McCormick Place and the International Amphitheatre, February 9-14.
Copies of the folder, "We Speak Your Language," may be obtained by writing the Construction Industry Manufacturers Association, 111 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 53202. Request Form No. C-6670.
# People & Events
Henry Toennies, director of technical services for the National Concrete Masonry Association, and Alan H. Yorkdale, director of engineering & research, Brick Institute of America, were featured speakers at the "Workshop for Loadbearing Masonry" at the Cross Keys Inn, Village of Cross Keys, Md., on May 29. The workshop was the first in a series sponsored by the Masonry Institute of Maryland for engineers and architects in the Maryland area. Superior Fireplace Co. division of Mobex Corp., Fullerton, Calif., announced that Irv Smolek of Sacramento, Calif., has become the (Continued on page 32)