The Masonry Society (TMS) recognized the appointment of John M. Melander and Diane B. Throop as Fellow Members to TMS and formally recognize them at the 2009 TMS Annual Meeting in Evanston, Illinois.
Melander, who serves as Director of Product
Standards and Technology at the Portland Cement
Association (PCA), has served TMS in countless
ways, including serving as one of TMS's most
influential Presidents.
Throop, who serves as Director of
Engineering at the International Masonry
Institute (IMI) has also been a long time
proponent and advocate for TMS, and currently
serves as Chair of the Masonry Standards Joint
Committee (MSJC). Summaries of their nomination
packets, highlighting some of what they have
done for TMS and the masonry industry, are
posted at the links above
Melander and Throop join TMS’s other Fellow
Members: Daniel P. Abrams, William G. Bailey,
Christine Beall, Luigia Binda, J. Gregg
Borchelt, Russell H.
Brown, James Colville, John L. Dawe, Robert G.
Drysdale, Ahmad Hamid, Gary C. Hart, Edwin T.
Huston, Rochelle C. Jaffe, Lawrence F. Kahn,
Richard E. Klingner, David I. McLean, Adrian W.
Page, Max L. Porter, J. Patrick Rand, Michael P.
Schuller, Nigel G. Shrive, and John G. Tawresey
To qualify for Fellow Membership status, a
Member must have made outstanding contributions
to TMS and have been a member for no less than
10 consecutive years. Nominees are considered by
the Awards Committee, who make recommendations
to the Board of Directors, who then must approve
nominees with no more than 2 negative votes.
Those granted Fellowship status carry the
designation FTMS, Fellow of The Masonry Society.
The Awards Committee accepts applications for nominees for
Fellow Membership in TMS until February 1 of
each year.
A Nomination Form is posted
here of the TMS
website (www.masonrysociety.org) along with a
listing of eligible TMS members.
