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NTCA Honors Three With Rings of Honor |
Addtime:2008-1-2 |
The National Tile Contractors Association (NTCA),
the largest tile contractors association in the world, presented three
Rings of Honor at the awards banquet during NTCA¡¯s annual Total
Solutions Conference last October in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.
Ring of Honor recipients were Joe Tarver, NTCA executive director
emeritus, Myra Lynn Cardwell, legendary NTCA employee, and Butch
Woelfel, owner of Artcraft Granite and Tile of Mesa, Arizona.
The
contractor Ring of Honor recipient, Woelfel, also named Tile Person of
the Year in 1993, was instrumental in designing the tile patterns that
were installed in the TileLetter Residential Grand Prize winning
project this year. Along with Tarver, Woelfel was influential in
negotiations for what the industry knows today as Coverings.
Ring
of Honor Awards for associate members honored two bastions of the NTCA:
both Tarver and Cardwell. Tarver celebrates his 50th year in the tile
industry as NTCA executive director emeritus and the dual recipient of
the NTCA Associate Ring of Honor. Executive director from 1972-2002,
today, Tarver is still active with NTCA, and maintains the Reference
Manual, which he created.
Having retired from NTCA in October
of 2001, Ring of Honor recipient Cardwell worked with NTCA since 1964
and is one of only three women honored in the history of the
association with the Tile Person of the Year Award, bestowed on her in
1989.
This year¡¯s master of ceremonies was Wally Adamchik,
workshop presenter and owner of Firestarter Speaking/Consulting. The
evening also included a presentation on the history of tile by Eric
Astrachan, executive director of the Tile Council of North America, and
a range of awards and recognitions.
NTCA is a non-profit trade
association serving every segment of the industry, spearheading
education for the professional installation of ceramic tile and allied
products. For more information, please contact NTCA membership
director Bob Brown at bob@tile-assn.com, via telephone at (601)
939-2071, or visit www.tile-assn.com.. £¨cn-stonenet.com£© |
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