It's been said that construction industry is 200 years of tradition unencumbered by progress. It's also been said that the plumbing industry has undergone more change during the past five years than it has over the previous 50. Somehow it's fitting those two statements from industry figures appear in this, Reeves Journal's 90th Anniversary issue.

Taken together, these two statements provide a plausible assessment of the plumbing industry today: a rapidly advancing trade driven by cutting edge technology on the one hand while, at the same time, it's an industry with a sizeable institutional memory and a great deal of respect and reverence for the old-school ways of doing things--the tried-and-true techniques and traditions that are still the hallmark of a master craftsman.