August 2016
HBA Founders Gather to Reminisce August Education and Area Council Meeting – page 6 CAPS Classes – page 7 Register for IBS – page 10
Back row: Bob Frost, Rocky Rhodes, Tom Woods, Mark Hoffman, Tom French, Jim Haas, Saul Ellis, Don Culling, Fred Riley, Jack Baker, Buzz Dulaney, Jim Neighbors, Clancy Plummer, Denis Stewart, Phil Acuff. Middle row: Bob Wills, Richard Mather, Penny Thomson, Ed Thomson. Front row: Larry Gordon, George Schluter, Jim Young, Dusty Rhodes
The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City celebrated our founding members with a special cocktail party on July 21. This very special group gathered in the board room of the HBA Housing Center, which many of them were instrumental in constructing,
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Jim Haas, Dusty Rhodes, Saul Ellis and Clancy Plummer
to share memories of the “old days.” The founders were joined by HBA staff and current board members who expressed the great appreciation we have for their work in creating the association we have today. These men built the foundations
Richard Mather, HBA president in 1978 when the ground breaking for the Housing Center was held, with Fred Riley and Jim Young
of the HBA and of Kansas City area neighborhoods, and from the stories they shared they had a lot of fun doing both!
George Schluter and Buzz Dulaney enjoyed the HBA publications from past years.