Tag: Pit & Quarry Hall of Fame
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Franklin E. Squires Original
February 2018 marked 61 years for Frank Squires in the aggregate industry. Through it all, Squires has proven to be an innovator and a world-renowned expert in the field of washing and classifying technologies, earning five patents as a co-inventor of next-level control systems for single and multiple classifying tank systems. Squires became a leading…
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C. Howard “Ward” Nye Original
The leader of one of the largest aggregate-producing companies in North America, C. Howard “Ward” Nye has served in important roles in the industry, including his work with the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA). Nye has been chairman of the board of Martin Marietta Materials Inc., the second-largest producer in the United States,…
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Charles S. Luck III Original
What is the measure of a man’s success in life? Is it how much money he earned? How great his business grew? How many possessions he accumulated? Charlie Luck IV, president and CEO of Luck Companies, explores this age-old question while reflecting on his father, Charles Luck III. To Luck IV, the makeup of a…
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Industry ambassadors enter Pit & Quarry Hall of Fame
Four inductees were enshrined March 6 into the Pit & Quarry Hall of Fame as members of the 2017 class. The induction of Robert G. Bartlett (National Stone Association), Paul Detwiler Jr. (New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co.), Kim Snyder (Eastern Industries) and Mark Towe (Oldcastle Inc.) took place at the Encore Las Vegas ahead…
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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…
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Feltes, James and Zelnak enshrined into Hall of Fame
Aggregates industry leaders gathered March 20, 2016, for the fourth annual Pit & Quarry Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Dinner in Nashville, Tenn., where Rick Feltes (Feltes Sand & Gravel), Don James (Vulcan Materials) and Steve Zelnak (Martin Marietta) were enshrined as the 2016 class. More than 100 people were in attendance at the…
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Pit & Quarry inducts four into hall of fame
Aggregates industry leaders and their families gathered for the third annual Pit & Quarry Hall of Fame Ceremony & Dinner Sunday, March 15 in Baltimore. The ceremony followed the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association‘s Chairman’s Reception at the Hilton Baltimore. Several companies sponsored the event, including Terex Minerals Processing Systems, Kleemann/Wirtgen Group, Telsmith, W.S.…