Summit Electric’s Jury Joins NAW Institute Board of Directors
Directors of the NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence, NAW’s long-range research arm, elected several other distribution industry executives to the board during its recent Spring Meeting: Chairman - Ron Calhoun president and CEO of The Palmer-Donavin Mfg., Co., a distributor of residential building materials headquartered in Grove City, Ohio. He succeeds Joseph Nettemeyer, president and CEO of Valin Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif.
Other new board appointments:
Joseph Poehling, chairman and CEO, First Supply, La Crosse, Wis., a distributor of plumbing, heating, industrial, utility, pump, well, and building supplies serving contractor, industrial, and home center accounts in Wisconsin, Minnesota, northern Iowa, northern Illinois, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Joseph Thompson, Jr., founder and CEO, Thompson Management Associates, Annapolis, Md., an an association management firm serving seven industry trade associations, including several representing wholesale distribution companies. He is executive V.P. of the Association for Hose & Accessories Distribution.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.
