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Among those attending the meeting were
Among those attending the meeting were (from left) MCAA vice president Dee Brown; Mrs. George Miller; John Kennedy and his wife Peggy, daughter of MCAA president W. C. Dentinger, Jr. (next to Peggy), and MCAA executive vice president George A. Miller.
SAN ANTONIO HOSTS IMI ANNUAL MEETING
IMI's recent 15th Annual Meeting, focusing on the "human element" in masonry craftsmanship and management, drew more than 200 registrants to San Antonio, Texas. All of IMI's programs-market promotion, labor/management relations, apprenticeship and training, and research development-drew attention from speakers, panelists and registrants. But masonry's "human scale" was the theme of the meeting.
Keynote speaker Dr. Michael Maccoby, a consultant to IMI's Productivity/Quality of Work Life Project and to the Bricklayers International Union's long-range planning effort, Project 2000, told the meeting that masonry depends on human resources and needs to make maximum use of those resources in order to succeed.
Robert W. Glover, director of the Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas, noted in his address that industries which effectively train their workers achieve greater productivity and make more progress. He reviewed training programs in other industries and countries, and praised IMI's National/Regional Trowel Trades Training System as an innovative approach to meeting masonry's needs for skilled manpower.
The program for the meeting included general session speakers and presentations, panel discussions and workshops covering a broad range of topics. Among them: Masonry and fire protection; analyzing building costs; differing design viewpoints on masonry/metal stud wall systems; implementation of the IMI National/Regional Trowel Trades Training System; managing local training programs, and new masonry research and development initiatives.
Speakers included Joel Irvine, Kentucky Solite Corp.; Keith Kothman, Construction Cost Management; Richard Gensert, P.E., Gensert, Bretnall and Bobel; George A. Miller, executive vice president, Mason Contractors Association of America; Louis Weir, executive vice president, Bricklayers International Union; James Amrhein, Masonry Institute of America; Gregg Borchelt, Masonry Institute of Houston/Galveston; Ray Lackey, Bruce Voss and Robert Beiner of the IMI staff, and Doris Lackey, BAC staff and assistant secretary of the Masonry Research Foundation.
IMI's goals and plans for regionalizing its training and market promotion program were outlined by Donald Shay, Management Analysis Center.
San Antonio's distinctive architecture was shown and described by Eugene George, senior lecturer in both architecture and civil engineering at the University of Texas. He discussed the work of the late San Antonio architect, O'Neil Ford, and conference registrants later toured two of Ford's outstanding masonry projects Trinity University and a private home.
Attendees were welcomed to the meeting, which was held June 10-12, by William C. Dentinger, Jr., president of MCAA and co-chairman of IMI, and Edward M. Bellucci, secretary/treasurer of BAC and a trustee of IMI.
Conducting the meeting was Ray Lackey (at lectern), executive director of IMI. To his right are W. C. Dentinger, Jr., MCAA president, Dr. Michael Maccoby, consultant to IMIS Productivity Quality of Work Life Project; Robert W. Glover, director of the Center for the Study of Human Resources, University of Texas, and Edward M. Bellucci, secretary treasurer, International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen.
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