Masonry Magazine April 1974 Page. 11
David Heads MC&MCA
Karl David of Carl G. Olson & Sons, Inc. has been elected president of the Minnesota Concrete & Masonry Contractors Association, St. Paul, succeeding Sid Mosman, Fireplace Construction Co.
Other new officers are Ebbie Bulach, E.L. Bulach Construction Co., vice president; Les Juehrs, Corning Donohue Co., secretary, and Phil Malmstedt. Axel H. Ohman Construction Co., treasurer.
Norton Sponsors Racers
Famed race driver Roger Penske has announced that the Norton Company has joined Penske Racing, Inc. as a major sponsor of the team's 1974 program and that Mike Hiss has been signed to drive Penske Racing's second entry in the Indianapolis 500. The Norton firm, of Worcester, Mass., is a diversified industrial manufacturer and the world's leading producer of abrasives with sales of $475 million.
New Grace Facility
The Construction Products Division of W. R. Grace & Co., Cambridge, Mass., has announced the opening of a new 36,000 square foot Zonolite vermiculite processing plant and warehouse in West Chicago, III., to serve areas of Illinois, Indiana, and Wis.
Mal Allen Retires from BIA
Malcolm H. Allen, manager of the Structures Laboratory for the Brick Institute of America, has retired after 36 years of service to the brick industry. Since he entered the industry in 1938 as a field engineer for SCPI Region 6, he has been a major contributor to first the Structural Clay products Institute's and subsequently the Brick Institute of America's engineering and research programs.
Allen served as SCPI Region 6 field engineer until 1940 when he was appointed regional director. He continued in this position until 1949 when he came to SCPI's national office as chief engineer. In 1954 he joined the Structural Clay Products Research Foundation as manager of field engineering and development.
He was promoted to manager of structural research in 1962 and director of the research division in 1966. He became director of the combined engineering and research division in 1970, and manager of the Structures Laboratory in 1971.
Alan H. Yorkdale, BIA director of engineering & research, noted: "In his 36 years of faithful service Mal Allen has contributed many things to the advancement of the brick industry, not the least of which was his quiet, steady guidance of young engineers in the industry."
Munro Named E.D. of New Masonry Institute
Colin C. Munro has been named executive director of the newly-formed Chicago Masonry Institute, 1550 Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, III., a suburb of Chicago. Munro is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and has been associated with the masonry industry for more than 18 years. He served in various capacities with the Brick Institute of America, with manufacturing and sales companies in the masonry field, and with a builder-developer of shelter construction.
The Chicago Masonry Institute is a labor-management cooperative effort to further the use of masonry and is supported by the Mason Contractors Association of Greater Chicago and the Builders Association of Chicago in cooperation with the United Order of American Bricklayers and Stone Masons Union, Local #21.
The Institute will provide information to architects, engineers, designers, builders, specification writers, architectural students, and the public in reference to the use of masonry in new construction. The new telephone number is 297-6704; the Chicago number is 694-2737.
When you see a man without a smile, give him one of yours.
Seattle Honors G. Earl Blackstock
Les Henson of Henson Masonry, Inc. (standing, right) presents a plaque to G. Earl Blackstock on behalf of the Seattle Mason Contractors Association honoring him for his sixty years in masonry in the Puget Sound area. A retired member of the association, Blackstock was instrumental in forming and is a charter member of the Seattle chapter. He has been president of the local chapter and state chairman and regional vice president of MCAA. As a chapter member he was active in forming and serving on the many labor-management trusts that have been established in recent years. A former president of Bricklayers Local #2-Seattle, Blackstock began contracting in 1944. The inscription on the plaque reads: "The Mason Contractors Association of Seattle takes pleasure in honoring G. Earl Blackstock for his many years of service to the masonry industry as a bricklayer and mason contractor-one to whom architects, manufacturers and associates turned for counsel and guidance."