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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1954 |
Paul A. Martin |
The State Journal |
|
1955 |
M. J. Maynard |
J.C. Penney Company |
|
1956 |
Dwight H. Rich |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1974 |
Philip J. Gannon |
|
|
1975 |
Albert F. Schmidt |
Schmidt's Supermarkets |
|
1976 |
Lucile Belen |
Belen's Flowers |
|
1977 |
Dr. Theodore Bauer |
Physician |
|
1978 |
Dr. Edgar Harden |
|
|
1979 |
William J. Porter |
Porter Realty Company |
|
1980 |
Walter W. Neller |
Walter W. Neller Company |
|
1981 |
Monsignor Jerome MacEachin |
Catholic Diocese of |
|
1982 |
Robert Fisher |
|
|
1983 |
Fritz Bennetts |
Oldsmobile Division of GMC |
|
1984 |
Ted Sondag |
|
|
1984 |
Francis J. Carr |
|
|
1984 |
Charles A. Davis |
|
|
1984 |
Ransom E. Olds |
|
|
1984 |
George Washington Peck |
|
|
1984 |
W. K. Prudden |
|
|
1985 |
Jack Breslin |
|
|
1986 |
Ed Vogt |
BOC Oldsmobile Group |
|
1987 |
Robert Clark |
Capitol Federal Savings Bank |
|
1988 |
Edward B. McRee |
|
|
1989 |
Kenneth Patenge |
Wohlert Corporation |
|
1990 |
James L. Ruetter |
|
|
1991 |
Donald A. Hines |
Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster |
|
1992 |
Richard A. Letts |
City of |
|
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 |
|
1997 |
Jud & Louise Werbelow |
|
|
1998 |
Edward Souders |
Panurgy of Mid-Michigan |
|
1999 |
John Demmer |
Demmer Corporation |
|
2000 |
Duane Vernon |
Credit Bureau of Greater |
|
2001 |
Ev Beemer |
|
|
2002 |
Jack Davis |
Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, P.C. |
|
2003 |
James W. Butler III |
|
|
2004 |
Kellie P. Dean |
Dean Transportation, Inc., Dean Trailways of |
|
2005 |
James C. Epolito |
State of |
|
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 |
