L. G. Sterett Appointed Manager

M. I. C. Service Bureau

L. G. Sterett

H. T. Didesch, managing director of the Millwork Institute of California, announces the employment on August 5 of Lester G. Sterett as manager of the Institute's new Service Bureau. The creation of the Service Bureau is a result of the recent conference of the Institute at Los Angeles on July 25 and, 26, at which time it was decided to inaugurate a state-wide campaign to further the use of millwork.

The plan, as decided upon, calls for the establishment of a Service Bureau within the Institute which will contact architects, contractors and owners in the interests of millwork. The Bureau rvill accumulate the necessary information and data and will place two contact men in the field who will devote their efforts primarily to working with architects. One such man rvill operate in the northe?n territory with San Francisco as headquarters, and the other in the southern territory with Los Angeles as headquarters. The Service Bureau rvill also publish and issue creative sales literature to be used with - prospective owners, and, of course, will pay a great deal of attention to giving technical information and assistance to architects as regards specifications and details.

Mr. Sterett comes to the Institute well qualified for the work to be undertaken. He has had a well rounded experience in the millwork and lumber industries and has also had valuable experience in the advertising field, having worked his way through college as a result of his efforts in that line of work. He is thirty-four years of age and is a graduate of the University of Montana College of Law. Mr. Sterett did not practice law, but early in 1917 enlisted in the Air Service, U. S. A., at San Francisco. He served two years with the A. E. F. in France and Italy and when the war was terminated by the Armistice in 1918 was just completing his training as a pilot at Issoudun, France. He was discharged in May 1919 as a member of the First Army Observation Group, which organization did splendid service in connection with the St. Mihiel and Argonne drives. After his discharge from military service in 1919 Mr. Sterett came to California and has been continuously in the millwork and lumber industry since that time. Until joining the Millwork Institute staff he was cl-rief assistant to A. I. Todhunter, manager of the Millwork Department of tfe Hammond Lumber Company at Los Angeles.

For the next two months Mr. Sterett's duties will consist primarily of making a survey of the State for the purpose of selling the program to the membership and working out complete details for a constructive and creative campaign designed to assist all elements concerned.

Attends American Legion Meet

Newton Isaac, of the Corning Lumber Co., Corning, spent a few days in San Francisco recently on his way to attend the American Legion Convention at San Diego.

These impressive doors in the entrance of the new Sherman Institute Chapel at Riverside, California, are noteworthy, both for design and constru ction. They are built of "solid" plain sawn \0?hite Oak. Panelling and ornamentation of interior faces matches exterior elevation. Architectural Woodwork contract by Cresmer Manufacturing Company, Riverside (M I C. Certified Plant Number 25). Architect, G. Stanley \tr7ilson.