North Central Electrical Manufacturers Club raises $5,000 for charity in golf outing
The North Central Electrical Manufacturers Club Inc. (NCEMC), Bloomington, Minn., recently hosted a successful charity golf outing and raised $5,000 for the Feed My Starving Children organization. Contributing sponsors for 54th Annual Electrical Industry Golf Classic were 3M Company; Border States Electric Supply; Collins Unlimited Electrical & Technology Solutions; EESCO/United Electric Supply; Graybar Electric Company; Viking Electric Supply; and Werner Electric Supply of Minnesota.
The Electrical Industry Golf Classic is an annual gathering of the Upper Midwest electrical industry that since 1987 has contributed $25,750 to charity. During that time, the NCEMC has contributed a total of $459,890 in scholarships; golf tournament, holiday and other charities; and Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell volunteering.
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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.