National Hardwood Magazine - May 2022

Zack Rickman, Atlanta

Zack Rickman, Atlanta Hardwood Corporation, Mableton, GA; Mark Tuck, Gates Milling Inc., Gatesville, NC; Hal Mitchell, Atlanta Hardwood Corporation; and Lance Johnson, ISK Biocides Inc., Memphis, TN Ian Faight, SCMA/HMA, Pittsburgh, PA; Kelsey Kennedy, Gates Milling Inc., Gatesville, NC; Jerry Fortner, Cypress Rose Sawmill, Homerville, GA; Linda Jovanovich, HMA, Pittsburgh, PA; and Brian Meier, Cypress Rose Sawmill Terry Miller, National Hardwood Magazine, Memphis, TN; Kaitlyn Wood, Gates Milling Inc., Gatesville, NC; Rusty Logue, Battle Lumber Co. Inc., Wadley, GA; and Hunter Manning, Gates Milling Inc. Tony Hood, Lee White and Brooks Jeffords, Turn Bull Lumber Company, Elizabethtown, NC SCMA Gathers For Annual Meeting Miramar Beach, FL– The Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association (SCMA) held its 2022 Annual Meeting recently at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, located here, in conjunction with the Hardwood Manufacturers Association’s National Conference and Expo. Thirty members, prospective members, promotion sponsors, industry stakeholders, and staff gathered for a networking reception and dinner to open the two-day event. The next morning, the attendees met to review the past year’s activities, preview 2022 promotion initiatives, discuss association business, and elect officers. Cassie Lewis, Turn Bull Lumber Company, Elizabethtown, NC, was elected SCMA president. Lewis joined Turn Bull Lumber Company in 2011, working her way through the accounting and logistics departments, before joining the sales team in 2015. She now serves as the company’s account manager, and is responsible for all sales, as well as managing the green and kiln-dried inventories. 30 MAY 2022 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE Photos by Terry Miller Truss Beasley, Beasley Forest Products (BFP), Hazlehurst, GA, was elected SCMA vice president. He joined BFP in 2014 and is currently serving as vice president of business development for the Beasley Group sawmills and flooring plants. Beasley earned a Bachelor of Finance and a Master of Business Administration from Georgia Southern University. The SCMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Cypress building products to design professionals and consumers. For more information, visit www.CypressInfo.org. Follow the SCMA on Instagram and Twitter at @cypress_info, and on Facebook at @southerncypress. If your company is engaged in the manufacture, processing, or distribution of Cypress building products, and is interested in joining, email member-services@ cypressinfo.org to learn about membership. n Doug Brock, Semi-Retired, Panacea, FL; and Ryan Collins and John Stevenson, Beasley Forest Products Inc., Hazlehurst, GA Truss Beasley, Beasley Forest Products Inc., Hazlehurst, GA; Cassie Lewis, Turn Bull Lumber Company, Elizabethtown, NC; Zack Rickman, Atlanta Hardwood Corporation, Mableton, GA; and Ian Faight, SCMA/HMA, Pittsburgh, PA Michael Shook, Norcross Supply Company, Norcross, GA; Taylor Stringer, Stringer Industries Inc., Tylertown, MS; Tripp Josey, Josey Lumber Company Inc., Scotland Neck, NC; and Warren Reeves, Wholesale Wood Products, Dothan, AL MAY 2022 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 31