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• Gregory Brooks, 22, Okemos, who won the ninth annual Robert F. Ebeling Scholarship.
• Donna L. Czubaj, 20, Westland, who earned the eighth annual Masonry Institute of Michigan Scholarship.
• Brian Gorzynski, 23, Ludington, who received the first annual George Spencer Scholarship.
• Kevin Motyka, 20, also from Ludington, who was awarded the 10th annual James R. Snyder Scholarship.
• Pamela Stasko, 22, Southfield, recipient of the second annual John A. Heslip Scholarship.
The scholarships, each worth $850, were recently presented at an annual golf outing which serves as the major fundraising vehicle for the scholarship fund.
Scholarship honorees Ebeling and Snyder are veteran Detroit-area mason contractors who were instrumental in founding the Masonry Institute. Heslip was the former president and executive director of the Masonry Institute from 1969 through 1983.
Spencer, now a sixth vice president with the Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen International Union, was named as a new scholarship honoree this year in recognition of his efforts to establish state-wide union funding for the Masonry Institute. All four were on hand at the golf outing to assist in the presentation of the awards.
IF BRICKS COULD LAUGH
When officials in Mobile, Alabama, figured that the old five-story warehouse on the docks had to be demolished to make way for waterfront improvements, they hired a wrecker and decided to make a show of it.
The wrecking crew planted 150 pounds of dynamite around the brick building. Reporters and television crews were loaded into a boat and motored out to the middle of the Mobile River to watch the warehouse collapse.
Everyone stood at a safe distance. The dynamite exploded. A plume of dust enveloped the building.
You guessed it. The building stood.
The wreckers tried a second time the next day. More dynamite was set around the building. The television crews were ready on their boat in the middle of the river. There was an explosion; another cloud of dust.
You guessed it again.
The structure, which consisted of more than one million bricks was built in the mid-1930s by crews working for the federal Works Progress Administration.
Finally, the wrecking crew had had enough and tore the building down using a crane and wrecking ball.
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