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Community Service Award

2008 Community Service Award Recipient

Kelly Rossman-McKinney of The Rossman Group was recognized for demonstrating excellence, creativity and initiative in business, and as an outstanding individual who has given of her time and expertise to numerous organizations in the community. Rossman-McKinney has served as United Way Fundraising Chair, board president of Friends of Durant Park and is a member of the Lansing 150 Planning Committee.  She has also served as an ATHENA PowerLink advisor, and was a founding member of the Lansing Women's Economic Club.  Rossman-McKinney's public relations firm has won numerous awards, including two silver anvils, which is the Pulitzer Prize of the public relations industry. 


Past Recipients

Year

Name

Company

1948   

Clarence C. Carlton

Motor Wheel Corporation

1949      

J. Gottlieb Ruetter

Lansing Ice & Fuel

1950

Earle W. Goodnow

Atlas Drop Forge

1951

Hugo B. Lundberg

Lundberg Screw Products

1952

F. N. Arbaugh

F. N. Arbaugh Company

1953

C. W. Otto

Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce

1954

Paul A. Martin

The State Journal

1955

M. J. Maynard

J.C. Penney Company

1956

Dwight H. Rich

Lansing School District

1957

Jack F. Wolfram

Oldsmobile Division, GMC

1958

Fred Wohlert

Wohlert Corporation

1959

Joseph R. Gwinn

People's Finance Service

1960

Howard J. Stoddard

Michigan National Bank

1961

Talbert Adams

Abrams Aerial Survey

1962

Edward G. Hacker

Edward G. Hacker Company

1963

William C. Searl

Auto Owners Insurance Company

1964

William R. Carlyon

Consumers Power Company

1965

John A. Hannah

Michigan State University

1966

Rabbi Phillip Frankel

Shaarey Zedek Congregation

1967

Walter F. Patenge

Wohlert Corporation

1968

Floyd Estes

Estes-Leadley Company

1969

Howard Grimes

J. W. Knapp Company

1970

Hugo Lundberg

Lundberg Screw Products

1971

Claud Erickson

Board of Water & Light

1972

Joseph Alexanian

Alexanian's Rugs

1973

Albert C. Boyd

Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce

1974

Philip J. Gannon

Lansing Community College

1975

Albert F. Schmidt

Schmidt's Supermarkets

1976

Lucile Belen

Belen's Flowers

1977

Dr. Theodore Bauer

Physician

1978

Dr. Edgar Harden

Michigan State University

1979

William J. Porter

Porter Realty Company

1980

Walter W. Neller

Walter W. Neller Company

1981

Monsignor Jerome MacEachin

Catholic Diocese of Lansing

1982

Robert Fisher

 

1983

Fritz Bennetts

Oldsmobile Division of GMC

1984

Ted Sondag

Lansing State Journal

1984

Francis J. Carr

 Pioneer Honoree

1984

Charles A. Davis

 Pioneer Honoree

1984

Ransom E. Olds

 Pioneer Honoree

1984

George Washington Peck

 Pioneer Honoree

1984

W. K. Prudden

 Pioneer Honoree

1985

Jack Breslin

Michigan State University

1986

Ed Vogt

BOC Oldsmobile Group

1987

Robert Clark

Capitol Federal Savings Bank

1988

Edward B. McRee

Ingham Medical Hospital

1989

Kenneth Patenge

Wohlert Corporation

1990

James L. Ruetter

Lansing Ice & Fuel

1991

Donald A. Hines

Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster

1992

Richard A. Letts

City of Lansing

1993

Louis E. Legg

Lumber Company

1994

Wayne Williams

Williams Auto World

1995

Albert A. White

Whitehill Development Corporation

1996

J. Christopher Holman

The Greater Lansing Business Monthly

1997

Jud & Louise Werbelow

 

1998

Edward Souders

Panurgy of Mid-Michigan

1999

John Demmer

Demmer Corporation

2000

Duane Vernon

Credit Bureau of Greater Lansing

2001

Ev Beemer

Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce

2002

Jack Davis

Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, P.C.

2003

James W. Butler III

Michigan Broadband Authority

2004

Kellie P. Dean

Dean Transportation, Inc., Dean Trailways of Michigan

2005

James C. Epolito

State of Michigan

2006

Dorothy E. Maxwell

The Max Weingar Group

Jems & Jewels

2007

2008

David E. S. Marvin

Kelly Rossman-McKinney

Fraser Trebilcock Davis and Dunlap, P.C.

The Rossman Group