Masonry Magazine August 1989 Page. 18
Obituaries
R. C. (Corky) Doyle
R. Cartright (Corky) Doyle, 68, who founded Bricklaying Inc., a Washington-based masonry contracting firm in 1972 and managed the business until his death, died of cancer July 7 at his home in North Bethesda, MD. Mr. Doyle was born in Washington. During World War II he was a Marine Corps aerial photographer in the South Pacific. He returned to Washington after the war and worked as an estimator for E. A. Rule Masonry Co., John MacBryde Co. and Mark Masonry before forming Bricklaying Inc. which specialized in commerical construction, schools, churches, hospitals and government buildings. Mr. Doyle was a former president of the Mason Contractors Association of District of Columbia and a 20-year member of the board of directors of the Masonry Institute. Corky was MCAA's unofficial representative in Washington having served as chairman of many of MCAA's committees and State Chairman for the District for the past 15 years. MCAA will greatly miss his active participation & devotion to the programs and objectives of this organization.
John (Jack) F. Cutler
John F. Cutler was born in England in 1920 and graduated in Art and Architecture in 1939. He served in the RAF during World War II as a fighter pilot until he was shot down in 1943 and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Germany. Jack emigrated to Canada in 947 where he became actively involved with the architectural, civil engineering and town planning professions, heading up his own organization for a number of years. In 1962 Jack became the General Manager of the Brick & Tile Institute of Ontario, where he became aware that serious hard work had to be done to bring back clay masonry. It became obvious that what the industry needed was a national voice, and in 1966 the provincial brick groups amalgamated into a national body under the name of the Canadian Structural Clay Products Association, with Jack heading it as the Managing Director. In 1988 Jack retired from the CBAC to develop his own consulting company. Early in 1989 he became ill and passed away on July 14, 1989.
Midwest Led Nation
Spurred by a continuing economic rebound, the Midwest resurged as the nation's leader in office construction for 1988, according to Cahners Economics. The Midwest provided almost half the U.S. increase in the value of new office construction permits last year, according to the Cahners report. This represents an 18 percent increase over new office building permits issued in the region in 1987. Meanwhile, other nonresidential construction permits including recreational buildings, churches, service stations, and others rose by 30 percent in the same period.
New Rail-Truck Center
CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT) is teaming with an Albany area company to transport brick through a new rail-truck reload center serving eastern New York State and southern New England. Customers can receive brick shipped to the reload center from producers located on CSXT's 19-state rail system. The center, operated by Distribution Unlimited Inc., Voorheesville. N.Y., is located near the New York Thruway and Interstate-87. Voorheesville is less than two hours by highway from Utica and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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