BUSINESS REVIEW LITTLE APPLE
November 2018, Volume 14, Issue 11, www.manhattan.org
Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce launches President/CEO search
A national search for Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce’s next President/Chief Executive Officer will be headed by Chamber Chair Elect Wayne Sloan and a 14-member search committee. National executive search firm Waverly Partners will also play a significant role in the search to identify qualified local, regional and national candidates. Waverly is the preferred provider of executive search services of the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. Consultants Eric Peterson and Debbie Galbraith have met with the Chamber’s search committee and staff members, and also conducted focus groups with community leaders and representatives. These meetings helped the search committee develop a profile for the experience and leadership characteristics of a preferred candidate. Continued on page 2
Christy Rodriguez helps to put Region Reimagined in motion Region Reimagined has progressed forward under direction from Christy Rodriguez. This long-range strategy resolves to drive job creation and collectively enhance prosperity among its participants: Geary, Pottawatomie and Riley counties. Rodriguez arrived to the position in September after nearly 10 years at Fort Worth as Program Support Administrator for the city’s police department. Rodriguez’s first month has focused upon introductions as she’s listened to participants throughout the region to understand their visions to drive success toward the program’s main goals. Those goals are: targeted economic diversification, talent sustainability and entrepreneurial dynamism.
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Legacy Circle honors The Master Teacher
Created in 2015 as a celebration for Manhattan Area Chamber membership active for 50-plus years, the Legacy Circle program showers accolades upon recipients for high-level and long-term business activism. The Chamber shares our immense gratitude for your continuing commitment to our community. Thirty-three businesses have been inducted into Legacy Circle, including 28 charter members in 2015. It is with great excitement in 2018 that we added The Master Teacher to this distinguished group of business leaders. When The Master Teacher joined the Chamber in 1968: • Martin Luther King Jr. presented “The Future of Integration” speech at Kansas State University • Manhattan became a first-class city • Now Bill Snyder Family Stadium was built • Riley County constructed is first rural fire stations • City’s first industrial park established (195 acres, attracted McCall Pattern) Legacy Circle Inductees:
Al Langton Insurance Inc. C. Clyde Jones Charlson & Wilson Bonded Abstracters, Inc. Charlson-Wilson Insurance Agency, Inc. Commerce Bank Manhattan Danenberg Jewelers Dunne’s Pharmacy Endacott Lighting and Lamps Dave Fiser Griffith Lumber Company Dave Gross Robert N. Haines Irvin Parkview Funeral Home Kansas Gas Service, A Division of ONE Gas, Inc. Kellstrom Pharmacy Landmark National Bank Manhattan Broadcasting
Manhattan Eyecare, LLC Manhattan Mercury The Master Teacher Pepsi-Cola of Manhattan Reed & Elliott Jewelers Schram Chrysler Dodge Jeep, Inc. Schwab Eaton Sink, Gordon & Associates LLP Public Accountants Steel & Pipe Supply Company Thomas Sign Company UMB Bank Westar Energy Varney’s Book Store Via Christi Hospital The Wareham Company Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home