Contact: Adrienne Rupp
Business and Industry Association
Office: 603.224.5388 x114
Mobile: 603.731.7754
arupp@nhbia.org
BIA soliciting nominations for the 2009 Lifetime Achievement and New Hampshire
Advantage awards.
CONCORD, N.H. – July 6, 2009 – The Business and Industry Association
is currently accepting nominations for the 2009 Lifetime Achievement and New Hampshire
Advantage awards. BIA representatives will present the awards to winners at the
96th Annual Dinner to be held Nov. 4 at the Center of New Hampshire, Manchester.
Established in 1993, the annual Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a business
leader who has demonstrated a commitment to leadership in his or her profession,
community and New Hampshire. Award recipients help shape their local communities
and the state through their successful business endeavors, active participation
in civic and town organizations, involvement in boards, and service to local and
state government. The award recognizes individuals who have overcome the challenges
of building a successful business in New Hampshire.
Past honorees include Stephen Barba, the Balsams Grand Resort; Patrick Duffy, New England Telephone; Sylvio Dupuis,
Notre Dame College; Courtland Freese and George Freese, Jr., Globe Firefighter Suits;
John Frisbee, NH Historical Society; William Green, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green;
Saul Greenspan, SECO; Eli Isaacson, Isaacson Structural Steel; Andrew Lietz, Hadco;
Malcolm McLane, Orr and Reno; Jack Middleton, McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton;
John Morison II, Hitchiner Manufacturing; J. Bonnie Newman, Kennedy School of Government;
Walter Peterson, Franklin Pierce College; Henry Powers, Sprague Energy; David Putnam,
Markem Corp.; F. Fuller Ripley, Troy Mills; William Ruger, Sr., Sturm Ruger and
Co.; Neil Tillotson, Tillotson Corp.; James Wagner, Nexfor Fraser Papers; and Kimon
Zachos, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green.
Established in 2006, the New Hampshire Advantage
Award honors individuals, businesses or organizations for their extraordinary work
on a specific initiative, event or project that helps preserve New Hampshire’s special
character and quality of life. Past recipients include the 2-1-1 New Hampshire Partnership,
New Hampshire Political Library and a core group of supporters who helped preserve
the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard from closure under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure
(BRAC) process.
Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement and New Hampshire Advantage
awards are due Aug. 7 by 5 p.m. Please mail nominations to Judges, Business and
Industry Association, 122 North Main Street, Concord, NH 03301. Visit nhbia.org
to download nomination forms or call 603-224-5388 x116.
Any New Hampshire business
leader is eligible for nomination for the Lifetime Achievement Award, whether or
not he or she is currently engaged in business or a BIA member; however, current
BIA board members are not eligible. Businesses need not be BIA members to submit
nominations.