Summit Electric raises $22,650 in 3 days for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
Summit Electric Supply, Albuquerque, N.M., has so far raised $22,650 for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts after announcing a fundraising initiative to its associates last week. The company is matching donations that associates make to the American Red Cross or Salvation Army from October 31 to Nov. 8. Associates have thus far contributed $11,325. Matching funds from Summit brings the current total to $22,650. Summit has a long tradition of stepping up to support first responder organizations when natural disasters strike, says CEO Victor R. Jury Jr.
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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.