Category: 2017
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Mark Towe
Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2017 Mark Towe, CEO of Oldcastle Inc. since 2006, joined the company as COO of the Materials Group in 1997. Towe became president of Oldcastle Materials Inc. in 2000, and he has held a number of senior management positions in the aggregate industry over the years. With more than…
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Kim Snyder
Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2017 Kim Snyder’s career in the aggregate industry spans more than 40 years, having provided value to several different aggregate companies. Perhaps his greatest contribution was to Eastern Industries, which he served as president and where he devoted 16 years of his career. According to those closest to Snyder,…
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Paul Detwiler Jr.
Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2017 A descendant of New Enterprise Stone & Lime (NESL) founder J.S. Detwiler and a current owner of the company, Paul Detwiler Jr. was instrumental in guiding and building NESL into a top 25 U.S. aggregate-producing company and a top 10 crushed-stone producer – one that has provided a…
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Bob Bartlett
Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2017 Bob Bartlett, a former Pennsylvania highway secretary, served as National Stone Association (NSA) president starting in 1986. He served through the majority of the 1990s, retiring from the position in 1997. Bartlett was praised for doubling the association’s membership during his tenure. He also created a $5 million…
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Mark Towe Original
The grandparents were schoolteachers. So were the parents and a sister. But Mark Towe did not follow in the family footsteps. At least not in the occupational sense. Towe, who currently serves CRH Americas as chairman, took an interest in the aggregate industry 46 years ago after spending a summer as a scale operator at…
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Kim Snyder Original
Vision and determination. These are two characteristics Kim Snyder has continuously embodied throughout his career in the aggregate industry. Snyder, the former president of Eastern Industries who today serves on the board of directors at three companies, was the National Stone Association’s (NSA) chairman in 2000 when the association was deciding whether to merge with…
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Paul Detwiler Jr. Original
The conversations typically lasted only five or 10 minutes, but George Sidney came to expect them from time to time when Paul Detwiler Jr. was in the area. “He (Detwiler) would be driving around, and he would call me to ask if I was in the office,” says Sidney, president and COO of McLanahan Corp.,…
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Bob Bartlett Original
Paul Mellott Jr. stood in awe as Bob Bartlett, National Stone Association (NSA) president, walked the line and greeted NSA committee members as they arrived for a summer meeting at a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. The line to check in for this meeting sometime in the mid 1990s probably grew to 30, giving Bartlett the…