
|
2005 MIM Annual Meeting Highlights
A good time with great people!
The Annual Meeting highlighted the MIM Business Plan that was just completed
and approved by the Board of Trustees in November. The focus in the coming
years will be with the (1) MV-Tech (Masonry Video Technical Series) -
Awareness courses that will be online in the first quarter of 2006 and
(2) MAD (Masonry Alternate Design) which will focus on changing projects
of other structural materials to masonry. Members also had the opportunity
to participate in the 2nd annual "Masonry Knowledge" competition.
| 
|
| Dan Tollis (Baro Contracting), John Robovitsky
(Robovitsky Incorporated and MIM President), MIM’s Dan Zechmeister
and Mariano “Skip” DiGiovanni (Central Masonry Inc.) |

|

|
Mike Rupp (Rupp Masonry) and Tom Skuza (Valenti
Trobec Chandler) |
Mike Solomon (TNT Equipment),
Robin Quiambao (Baker Construction), and Nick Valentine (TNT Equipment) |

|

|
Don Hunson (Masonpro, Inc.), Chuck Hool (Giannola
Masonry) and Jeff Snyder (Masonpro, Inc.) |
MIM Board Members Christopher Sass
(Wiss Janney Elstner Associates) and Rick Cianek (Schuster Construction
Services) |

|

|
Rick Boris and Andy Halstead both of Colonial
Brick – a General Shale Company |
Tim Baker (Baker Construction),
Jerry Reed (Best Block), Jim “Rock” Weinrauch (National
Block), and Tom Baker (Baker Construction) |
| 
|
| Robin Quiambao (Baker Construction),
Kevin Ryan (Masonry Developers, Inc.), Rick Buzonowski (Navetta
Mason Contractors), Steve Dudek (Navetta Mason Contractors), Mariano
“Skip” DiGiovanni (Central Masonry Inc.), and Keith
Burry (Navetta Mason Contractors) |

|

|
Jimmy “D” DiGiovanni (Gibraltar National/Spec
Mix) and Mike Harman (Leidal & Hart) eagerly await Masonry Jeopardy
questions. |
Ray Saelens (Efficient Design)
and Larry Durkin (Durkin & Company) |
| 
|
| Thom Magna (Best Block), Mike Tardich (Lafarge
North America), Dale Haselhuhn (Silverado Construction), Tony Rea
(National Block), Brad Hawkins (Gibraltar National/Spec Mix), John
Connolly (Connolly Masonry), and Bill Barker (St. Marys Cement) |

|

|
Jim Gendron (National Block), Mike Rupp (Rupp
Masonry), and Jim Oldani (4D, an Oldcastle company) |
Mike Tardich (Lafarge North America),
Bob Schuessler (Fendt Builders’ Supply), and Bob Rensi (Lafarge
North America) |
 |

|
Tom Baker (Baker Construction), Tony Coppola
(Leidal & Hart), and Tim Baker (Baker Construction) |
Todd Dailey (Dailey Engineering)
and Jeff Snyder (Masonpro, Inc.) |

|

|
Jim Ahee (Ahee Masonry) and Dale Haselhuhn (Silverado
Construction) |
Kevin Ryan (Masonry Developers,
Inc.), Kathy Brzys (Essroc Cement Corp.), and from Colonial Brick
– a General Shale Company are Andy Halstead and Rick Boris |
| 
|
| Tony Giannola and Chuck Hool (Giannola Masonry)
along with Nick Valentine (TNT Equipment), Sal Biundo (Giannola
Masonry), and Mike Solomon (TNT Equipment) |

|

|
“The Original Three” (from Italy,
that is) Tony Giannola (Giannola Masonry), Walter D’Aloisio
(D’Aloisio Masonry), and Giovanni Agazzi (P&M Masonry) |
Rich Schneider (National Block)
Jimmy “D” DiGiovanni (Gibraltar National/Spec Mix) and
MIM’s Tony Darkangelo |

|

|
Thom Magna (Best Block), Mohamed Jafer (D’Aloisio
Masonry), and Tony D’Aloisio (D’Aloisio Masonry) |
Dan Tollis (Baro Contracting) and
Walter D’Aloisio (D’Aloisio Masonry) |

|

|
Brad Hawkins (Gibraltar National/Spec Mix) Don
Hunson (Masonpro Inc.) and John Connolly (Connolly Masonry) |
Betty Young (MIM's Story Pole magazine),
Mariano “Skip” DiGiovanni (Central Masonry Inc.), and
Rob Young (MIM’s Story Pole magazine) |

|

|
Dale Haslehuhn (Silverado Construction), MIM’s
Dan Zechmeister, and Jim Gendron (National Block) |
“The Committee” MIM’s
Dan Zechmeister, Paul Koch (Koch Masonry), Dan Tollis (Baro Contracting),
and John Robovitsky (Robovitsky Incorporated and MIM President) |
| 
|
| The Masonry Jeopardy Winners: Thom
Magna (Best Block), Matt Hicks (Hicks Masonry), John Bingham (Hicks
Masonry), Tom Skuza (Valenti Trobec Chandler), Jerry Snyder (Best
Block), Jon Snyder (J&J Construction), Larry Durkin (Durkin
& Company), and Rick Cianek (Schuster Construction Services) |
Thank you all for attending.
|