One of the most gregarious individuals you’ll meet walking the isles of INTEX Expo, Thomas E. Donnelly loves the wall and ceiling industry. With a career that has been 52 years and counting, this individual is a peer to the plaster greats Walt Pruter and J.R. “Dick” Gorman.
Donnelly Stucco, based in Minneapolis, has for four generations maintained a consistent outfit that serves the stucco industry. The Donnelly legacy was established in the 1920s when founder Bill Donnelly began his trade as a plaster tender in Santa Monica, Calif., practicing with a journeyman plaster at every opportunity. He realized the true meaning of the word “journeyman” when, at the age of 24, he and his wife Hannah moved through a succession of small towns searching for an opportunity to ply his trade.