ITASCA, IL — The American Provide Affiliation’s Government Committee is proud to announce that Mid-Metropolis Provide’s Jeff New and Hajoca’s Gary Jones are the recipients of the 2022 Fred V. Keenan Lifetime Achievement Award.
New, chairman of Elkhart, Indiana-based Mid-Metropolis Provide and Jones, Japanese Division pricing and vendor relations supervisor for Hajoca Corp., might be honored Nov. 10 through the InSinkErator ASA Annual Assembly & Member Luncheon as a part of NETWORK2022 on the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park. Each have been unanimous suggestions by the Keenan Award Choice Committee.
Service and Dedication
The Keenan Lifetime Achievement Award is introduced to people with an extended historical past of service and dedication to the PHCP-PVF business. To be thought of, people should have exhibited robust affect on the standing of the business, challenge a constructive business picture, be answerable for positively affecting the business normally, and have offered a historical past of devoted service to ASA.
New, who turned concerned in ASA within the late Nineteen Seventies, served as ASA president in 2008 and continues to serve in a key volunteer management place as chairman of ASA’s Advocacy Strategic Council. New was chairman of the ASA Authorities Affairs Committee for 11 years from 2010 to 2021, and likewise has been closely concerned over time with ASA’s Political Motion Committee.
“I’m humbled,” New stated. “I’m lucky to have been born into an business that I may spend my complete life in and luxuriate in each day of it. To be given this award for doing what I’ve beloved for 46 years is an honor past perception.”
Jones, who has been within the PHCP-PVF business for 46 years, spent the primary 40 years of his profession with Japanese Penn Provide. After Hajoca acquired Japanese Penn, Jones turned supervisor of the corporate’s Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania revenue middle and has spent the final three years in his present function as Japanese Division pricing and vendor relations supervisor.
Additionally no stranger to volunteer ASA management, Jones has been part of ASA’s Plumbing Advisory Group since its inception and served a stint as that group’s chairman.
Jones stays concerned in ASA Northeast, the regional affiliation previously referred to as Wholesalers Affiliation of the North East (WANE). Jones is a former WANE president.
“I’m not naïve to consider there are lots of folks extra deserving of this honor than I’m,” Jones stated. “To be acknowledged together with Jeff New and what he continues to contribute to ASA is actually humbling. The listing of recipients is the Mount Rushmore of our business. I’ve labored with and identified lots of this distinguished group. To suppose somebody who’s simply an on a regular basis particular person within the enterprise, to even be thought of would have been sufficient. That being stated, anybody, if allowed to, and has the drive to, can affect and make a distinction in a constructive method to a beautiful business and to ASA.”
An Elite Fraternity
New and Jones be a part of an elite business fraternity to win the Keenan award. That group additionally consists of Fred Keenan (for who the award is called), Karl Neupert, Ed Felten, John McDonald, John Martin, Frank Finkel, Nick Giuffre, Morris Beschloss, Joel Becker, Dottie Ramsey, Joe Poehling and Joe Maiale.
“Jeff New and Gary Jones epitomize the true definition of servant management,” ASA CEO Michael Adelizzi stated. “Their contributions to ASA over time have been many and have had a serious influence within the constructive momentum the affiliation continues to realize. Each are extremely deserving of the Keenan Lifetime Achievement Award and now can rightfully take their place alongside the greats of our business.”
NETWORK2022 runs Nov. 9/11 on the Fairmont in Chicago. For full program and registration particulars, go to www.asa.web/Networking/NETWORK2022.