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James Riley has been appointed mktg. director at Great Southern Wood. Abbeville, Al., according to pres. and ceo Jimmy Rane.
David Woods has joined Willamette Industries' MDF sales staff, which has relocated from Bennettsville, S.C., to Rock Hill, S.C. Alethea Brown replaces Woods as Atlantic plywood sales rep.
Mark Shrller is now mgr. of FoxworthGalbraith Lumber Co., Lampasas, Tx.
Don Jensen is now eastem account mgr. for Moulding Associates, Garland, Tx., covering Ga., Al., N.C. and S.C.
Monica Nbarado is a new customer service rep for Lafayette Wood-Works, Inc., l,afayette, L:. Elisha Richard is production adminstrative assistant; Greg Cline, production mgr.; Karl Ortego, inside sales rep, and Betsy Benoit, receptionist.
Robcrt Foreman, formerly with Hankins Lumber, is new to Hood Industries. Waynesboro, Ms.
Ron Alphin has joined Triangle Building Supply's truss manufacturing co. as regional truss sales rep, serving Aberdeen, Fayetteville, Laurinburg and Lumberton, N.C.
Joe McNeel ltr, previously with Soutbern Pine Inspection Burcau, is new to Gulf [,umber, Mobile, Al.
Bob Headrick has joined the industrial sales team at Parton Forest Producs, Rutherfordton, N.C.
Brian Troy has been appointed general sales mgr.-architectural ceilings for The Celotex Corp., Tampa Fl.
Ken Porter, formerly of G-P, is now group mgr. for Builder Marts of America's Greenville, S.C., forest products commodities division
Larry Adams is now account mgr. at Lonestar Plywood & Door Corp., Coppell, Tx., serving Plano, Richardson and North Dallas, Tx.
Greg Peek is now sales mgr. for lewis L,umber Co., Cove, Ar.
Jacob J. "Jakd' Ferro, former prcsident of the Kaolin Clay division of J.M. Huber Co., Macon, Ga., has been named c.o.o. of W.R. Bonsal Co., Charlone, frf.Q. \f,illirrn R .fl'od(5P Bonsal, III, chairman and ceo, will retire December 1997.
Pat Contestable, ex-Dixie Plywood, is new to Scholl Forest Industries, Houston, Tx.
Lemual Bivins has been appointed mgr. of Barton's, Manila, Ar.
Bob Kolp, international market mgr., has retired from Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., after 50 years in the industry. Also retiring: John Churchill, group mgr., Canadian joint venture-industrial wood products div., 40 years in the industry; Mac Stehman, area mgr.east region particleboard operations, 27 years at G-P and 40 years in the industry, and Dick Youmans, general mgr.-hardwood lumber group, 15 years at G-P and 45 years in the industry.
Jack Chapman is now Southeast and Central Southwest group district mgr. for Georgia-Pacific's Gypsum Division, restructured as part of G-P's recent acquisition of Domtar Inc,
Ilenry Skerry has been appointed mgr.business development, component plants at Wickes Lumber Co.
Greg Lebeck, Western International Forest hoducts, Portland, Or., recently travelled to Houston, Tx,, on business.
Ronald \il. Mathewson, ex-MagneTek Inc., has been named c.o.o. and exec. v.p. of Fibreboard Corp., Dallas, Tx.
Warren Markwell, ex-Skil-Bosch, is now president of Louisville Ladder Corp., Louisville, Ky.
Rae Lyn Williams has joined WoodWare Systems, Memphis, Tn., as product support specialist for the company's millwork software package.
Ted LaDoux, formerly executive director of the Northwest Forest Products Consortium, is now exec. v.p. of the Engineered Wood Research Foundation. research subsidiary of APA-The Engineered Wood Association. James E. Allen, Union Camp, Chapman, Al., was elected APA chairman of the board, and Alex R. Aitken, International Paper, Dallas, Tx., vice chairman. Trustees: Duane H. Peterson. Champion International, Camden, Tx.; James E. Sterrett, Boise Cascade. Boise, Id.; Dominic Gammiero, Norbord Industries, Toronto, Ontario; Allen Ainsworth, Ainsworth Lumber, Vancouver, B.C.; Donald R. Deardorff, Fourply, Inc., Grants Pass, Or.; lVarren Easley, LouisianaPacific, Portland, Or.; Donald L. Glass, Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga.; Charles P. Grenier, Plum Creek, Columbia Falls, Mt., and Thomas J. Smrekar, Potlatch, Spokane, Wa. Shannon Watson has been named mktg. channel mgr. for American Woodmark Corp., Winchester, Va. Thomas F. Mylott is the new Kentucky territory mgr. for Bostik's industrial distribution division.
