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Welcome lo Conference
AM here to welcome you to the Conference
on Modern Masonry on behalf of our Presi-
dent, Mr. Edmund CIaxton, who is temporarily
absent in Europe, and the entire BuiTcling Re-
search Institute.
The program we oder today will, we believe,
equal in excellence any we have put together.
William H. Scheick
Executive Director,
Building Research Institute
National Academy of Sciences-
National Research Council
cone here and speak. This splendid coopera-
tion makes it possible for the BuiTcling Re-
search Institute to make the contribution to
the advance of building science that is our
reason for being.
T would like to note that this Conference on
Modern Masonry does not cover all types of
We take great pride in the fact that the noted masonry products. We limited the subject on
men we have as speakers on this program are purpose. Stone and clay products the subject
willing to take the time to prepare papers and we have chosen for our discussion are the ones
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most closeIv relatecT to each other. They, are
therefore a proper subject by then~se:ives for
the kind of research correlation conference we
are conducting.
Our conference is uncler tee general super-
`.:ision of a cl~air~nan Also is highly qualifiers
by his broacT knowlecige of buiTcling and his
knowlecige of tee conference subjects. He is-
Mr. C. E. Silling, head of the architectural fiend
of C. E. Sitting ancT Associates of Charleston,
West Virginia.
Mr. Silling began Lois world as office boy ifs
tee firm he is now Pleading, following his gracI-
uation front the Carnegie [nstitutc of Technol-
ogy with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture.
He is a Medallist, Beaux Arts Institute of De-
signs anc! a winner of the New York Municipal
Arts Society Prize. A Fellow of tile American
Institute of Architects, he scrvccl as past presi-
dent anct former secretary-treasurer of the Vir-
ginia chapter ancI as a past (Erector of the T\Ta-
tional BoarcT of the ATA. Mr. Silling is con-
sidered one of tee roost ardent supporters of
n~oclular coordination and an eloquent speaker
on architectural subjects.
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