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Hugh Burgess, Dean of Arizona State University's College of Architecture
Hugh Burgess, Dean of Arizona State University's College of Architecture, gives a slide presentation on notable masonry structures at the Opening Session of the Conference.
exists in our industry between labor and management." President Ebeling concluded his report by urging the membership to assist their local chapters in promoting masonry.
Following President Ebeling on the speakers' rostrum was Hugh Burgess, dean of the College of Architecture at Arizona State University. Dean Burgess, who also is a member of IMI's Architectural Education Advisory Council, gave a slide presentation on historical and contemporary masonry buildings. A proponent of the professional building team concept, he urged that the architect, engineer, developer and contractor work as a cohesive unit on any construction project.
U.S. Congressman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois had been originally scheduled to address the opening session of the Conference, but was compelled to cancel his appearance due to legislative developments on Capitol Hill. He was replaced by the Hon. Robin L. Beard, U.S. Congressman from the 11th District of Tennessee.
A fiery speaker and a no-nonsense critic of the federal bureaucracy. Congressman Beard lashed out at the government's penchant for the countless miles of red tape, deficit spending, and overall bungling of important issues that impact on the nation's businessmen.
He particularly attacked the way that the Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) has been implemented, especially in the area of that department's virtually autocratic powers. "While the idea behind OSHA is good, the government has again managed to create a monstrous bureaucracy staffed with fumbling bureaucrats." Beard said.
As a means of retaliation in appealing OSHA citations. Congressman Beard recently introduced a bill (H. 6835) which proposes that OSHA pay all legal fees whenever it loses a court case involving a citation. He labeled many of these safety citations as "ridiculous."
Congressman Beard also pointed to runaway inflation as another area where near-sighted government measures to fight it are sorely lacking. He defined inflation as a situation in which "you throw new dollars into an economy whose productivity remains the same." He added that if business ran its operations the way the government does, it would soon be out of business. "Whenever the government needs more money, it just prints more. Unfortunately you and I don't have printing presses." Beard said.
The Republican Congressman cautioned against looking to the government to come up with solutions to all problems. "We must take the bull by the horns ourselves." he said. "We all know that we can do our jobs much better than the government could do it for us."
John T. Joyce
George Plumb
Congressman Robin Beard
Steve Lesko
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Irv J. Chasen
Ray Prossen
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Oscar Person
Dr. Russell H. Brown
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