Burns & Scalo founder dies - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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He succumbed to prostate cancer Monday at the age of 78 at his home in PalmBeacu Gardens, Fla., where he has lived since 1995. One of 14 childre n of Italian immigrants, Scalo and longtime business partnerRichard “Duke” Burns, whom he firsyt met as a laborerf for a roofing company, launchedc Burns & Scalo Roofingf in 1956, growing it into one of the largestg commercial roofing companies in the United States.
The partnersw parlayed the success of the roofinb company into a real estater firm that today is usually an active bidder and buyer of majoer properties inthe region, continues to pursue ambitiousd developments, and offers a range of services that include everything from brokerage to property management. Starting in the 1980s, Scalo began groominvg his twin sons, Jim and Jack, to take over the companty and gradually stepped away from the businesses in the early Jim Scalo rememberedhis father’s ambition, hard work and fairness.
“Mu father’s life, I captures the values that Americans most admired and are at the center of what makesPittsburghers special,” said in a prepared statement. “Hes was born into a famil y of limited means but with no lack of he had ambition to build somethintof value, he was dedicated to hard and brought a sense of fairness to everythingh he did.” Jack Scalo recalled his father’s “I will always remembee a wood box he had on his desk with a sign that read ‘Secret for Success,’” he “When you opened the hinge, it read, ‘Har Work.
’” An Air Force veteran, Scaloo served his country in the Korean War, workin as a medic and attaining the rank of Besides his sons, Scalo is survived by his wife of 56 Patricia Donagan Scalo, a daughter, Lisa Scaloo McMenamin, a Pittsburgh interior designer, and eight