b'AnnualAchievementAward Goes To Paul~ :rbeKansasCityNews-PressMorris October5,1962 T HEREARE22,000roofingcontractorsin theUnitedStates.Ifyouadd contractorsin thefringe area-thosewho dosomeroofing,butareactuallyalmost wholly engaged in another craft, the number of contractors is26,000. Outofthisnumber,theAMERIC ROOFERANDBUILDINGIMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORchose Paul Morris of KansasCity, asthe individual "who had done the most toimprove the standards of the roofing industry in the U. S." JamesMcCawley,Editorof the magazine flew to Kansas City on October 1st to present the 24 inch high trophy to Morris before a cheering dinner audience of Kansas City builders, architects, engineers and contractors. The formerhigh school basketball star and South Pacific veterans unique among candidatesfortheAMERICANROOFER annual award, in that 14 years ago, he was completely ignorant of the industry which had honored him. McCawley pointed out the rapid rise in business of the recipient, from truck driver foroneoftheoldestroofingcontractor firmsin the U. S.,Sellersand Marquis of KansasCity,toinsuccession - assistant Above:Thehandsometrophyawardecl manager, manager and vice-president.fby themagazine, stands two feethigh, There was in addition the equally rapidsymbolicof the statureof the recipient, riseintheestimationofhiscompetitorsparticularlyappropriatefortallPaul. who elevated him to the presidency of the\' KansasCityRoofing ContractorsAssociation and later to the same post in the Mid westRoofingContractors\'Association -regionalorganizationcoveringKansadifficulties. These stemmed fromhismarMissouri, Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska.riage at 1 7 to a pretty 16 year old student Paulconfessesthat when he graduatenurse, who unlikeher groom, wasatthe from high school, he was a poor student otop of her high school classes. everythingbutbasketball,evidenceofHe was always a good salesman, sellin which being 33rd in a graduating class ofhimselftohisbride,andsellingth 36.But hedid finishup president of hisHoisting Engineering Union into makin class, and the holder of two college basket him its youngest member. He paid his wa ball scholarships, both of which had to bethroughhighschoolasahoistingengi declined when Uncle Sam tapped him onneer,tookhimself,hiswidowedmothe the shoulder and shipped him to the Southandfamilyoutofaslumneighborhood Pacific.intothenewhomehebought forthem. On his return with five citations he dis He also bought his first car which at 1 7 he covered, much to his former teachers\' sur used to snare the studentnurseto whom prise, that he wasa good student, and hisheisstillhappilymarried,theevidence studiesatFinleyEngineering Schoolandof which are four children ranging in age the University of Kansas were fraught withfrom 10 to 18. 14NOVEMBER,1962'