Burt Logan Honored as 2020 Campanella Recipient Lisa Pate, FRSA Executive Director FRSA’s highest honor is the Bob Campanella Memorial Award, which is presented each year to the FRSA member who is deemed most worthy of recognition for service to his or her community, the Association and to the industry. The award was initiated in 1965 by the St. Petersburg Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors’ Association as a memorial tribute to the late Bob Campanella, owner of Ace Roofing Company, St. Petersburg. Suggestions are taken from the membership and submitted to a committee of previous Campanella Award recipients who select the winner each year. Recent winners include: 2019 George Ebersold 2018 Dick Pittman, CPRC 2017 Loretta Hartley 2016 Dave Shewski, CPRC 2015 Keith Swope, CPRC 2014 Jim Brauner 2013 Gary Register
presentation included information about Burt’s life and work in the industry. Burt was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. into a close-knit FRSA salutes these fine members for their dedicafamily. At the tender age of six, the family relocated to tion and support of the industry! Winter Springs and then to Oviedo, Fla. where he grew With COVID-19 taking over 2020, FRSA’s Annual up. He attended Oviedo High School where he met his Convention and Expo were cancelled. So plans for future bride. After graduating high school, Burt joined this award also changed. Normally, during the Officer the Marines Corp. to serve our country. Installation dinner, the Campanella Award is the Burt has been involved with FRSA for many years. highlight event, mostly because this coveted award is In fact, you could say he grew up with FRSA: his father only given out after close consideration of a slate of was an FRSA Honorary Member who contributed members who have contributed greatly to the industry much to the Association and the roofing industry and FRSA. Since we were unable to present the 2020 through the years. Burt followed in his father’s award with the ceremony it deserves and in front of footseps. industry peers, we decided to award it once we were One of the reasons Burt has been successful is able to gather in person again. That opportunity first that he has never lost sight of the importance of being presented itself during the April Board of Directors proactive in getting things done instead of waiting to and Committee meetings in Bonita Springs. respond to circumstances after the fact. He is conFRSA’s two highest honors are serving on the sistently pro-FRSA and is known by the Association Executive Committee, where you work your butt off staff as one of their go-to guys, always making himself for five years, and receiving the Campanella Award. available when a volunteer is needed. The previous award winner, George Ebersold, Tom Over the years, his enthusiasm has been reflected Tanenbaum Inc., Orlando, had the honor of presenting in his involvement as a key member of the Wind his friend and mentor, Burt Logan, Jr., CORE Roofing Mitigation Group, Codes, Convention, Public Relations Systems Inc., Orlando, with the 2020 award. The and Marketing, Energy and Environment, Building, 2012 Bill Bryans, CPRC
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