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No stranger to W&C readers, Bob Drury served the wall and ceiling industry proudly through his position as executive director with the Northwest Wall and Ceiling Bureau. His wife’s father was also the founder and editor of W&C magazine, Charles “Chuck” Clay. Drury joined the NWCB in 1972 as its architectural consultant, where he worked with the industry, city officials a nd more. Shortly after his joining, Clay passed and he was voted by the bureau’s board of directors to become the executive director. One of his many achievements was that in the 1980s, he pushed the industry to move more towards EIFS and exterior claddings. Drury still serves on W&C’s Editorial Advisory Board. He officially retired from the NWCB in 2012.