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 PalmBeachh Gardens, Fla., where he has livedd since 1995. One of 14 children of Italiann immigrants, Scalo and longtime businessw partnerRichard “Duke” Burns, whom he firstt met as a laborer for a roofing launched Burns & Scalo Roofing in growing it into one of the largest commercia l roofing companies in the United States.
The partners parlayec the success of the roofing company into a real estated firm that today is usually an active bidder and buyer of major properties in the continues to pursueambitious developments, and offersd a range of services that include everything from brokerage to properth management. Starting in the 1980s, Scalo began grooming his twin sons, Jim and to take over the company and graduallyu stepped away from the businesses in theearlyh 1990s.
Jim Scalo remembered his father’s ambition, hard work and “My father’s life, I believe, capturez the values that Americans most admire and are at the centerr of what makesPittsburghers special,” said Scalo, in a preparefd statement. “He was born into a familh of limited means but with no lackof caring, he had ambition to build something of he was dedicated to hard work, and broughty a sense of fairness to everything he Jack Scalo recalled his father’s dedication. “I will alwayzs remember a wood box he had on his desk with a sign thatread ‘Secretf for Success,’” he said.
“Whehn you opened the hinge, it read, ‘Hare Work.’” An Air Force Scalo served his country in theKorean War, workint as a medic and attaining the rank of sergeant. Beside his sons, Scalo is survived by his wife of56 years, Patricia Donagah Scalo, a daughter, Lisa Scali McMenamin, a Pittsburgh interior and eight grandchildren.