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Local Compass

2012 Issue 3
Local Compass
JOURNAL: ISSUE 3 - 2012

Local 8 Illinois

Local 8 IL members received their service awards at the Local's Chapter meetings in December 2011.

Jacksonville Chapter

From left, 25-year member Steve Emmons, Local 8 President Dan McCall, and 25-year member Mark Walbring.

Springfield Chapter

Local 8 President Dan McCall, left, presents 25-year member Thomas Walz with his service award.

Effingham Chapter

From left, 50-year member Donald Murphy, President Dan McCall, and 25-year member David A. Smith.

  

Local 4 Indiana/Kentucky
 


Seventy-five-year member Hollie Thomasson received his service award on July 26th. Brother Thomasson, now 92, started as an apprentice bricklayer with former Local 4 KY in Paducah in 1937 when he worked 10 hours a day, five days a week plus five hours on Saturdays. He said the Union is the reason 'we now have an eight-hour workday and a five-day work week.' Thomasson served as President of his Kentucky Local for 25 years. A World War II veteran, he enlisted in the army in 1941 and served in North Africa and Europe. Brother Thomasson currently lives by himself on the property in Symsonia where he was born in 1920.

Local 33 Georgia/North Carolina/South Carolina

Local 33 GA/NC/SC President James Stringer, right, presented retired BAC South Regional Director and 50-year member David Williams with his Gold Card and service award in May.

 

Local 5 New Jersey


Fifty-year member Joe Guenther of Local 5 NJ, right, receives his service award from Administrative District Council of New Jersey Director Richard Tolson.		 Brother Phil Gimmillaro receives his 25-year service award from BAC Executive Vice President and fellow Local 5 NJ member Gerard Scarano. From left, Local 5 NJ President Donald Engelhardt, Gerard Scarano, Phil Gimmillaro, and NJ ADC Secretary-Treasurer John Capo and Director Richard Tolson.

Local 6 Wisconsin

Local 6 WI presented longtime members with their service awards at the Local's annual picnic in July.


Local 6 WI Life Member Robert Gollubske with his Gold Card.		 Twenty-five-year member of Local 6 WI, Kevin Flynn.