FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Adrienne Rupp
Business and Industry Association
Office: 603.224.5388 x114
Mobile: 603.731.7754
arupp@nhbia.org
- Charitable Foundation president and University System chancellor emeritus will receive awards at BIA annual dinner.
CONCORD, N.H. – Sept. 21, 2009 – Lewis Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and Dr. Stephen Reno, chancellor emeritus of the University System of New Hampshire, will be honored with the Business and Industry Association’s 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Established in 1993, the annual BIA Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize business leaders who help shape their local communities and the state through their successful business endeavors, active participation in civic and town organizations, involvement in boards of directors, and service to local and state government. Feldstein and Reno will accept the awards at the BIA’s 96th Annual Dinner to be held Nov. 4, 5 p.m. at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester.
Lewis Feldstein is president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (NHCF), a statewide community foundation and the principal source of venture capital for the state’s nonprofit community. Previously, Feldstein worked with the civil rights movement in Mississippi and served for seven years in senior staff positions to New York City Mayor John Lindsay. Before coming to NHCF, Feldstein served as provost of the Antioch/New England Graduate School. He is a graduate of Brown University and holds a Master’s
in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University. Among his singular achievements were a seven-year tenure as the MC of the International Zucchini Festival, a stint as wine steward and personal assistant to John Wayne on his yacht in the Mediterranean.
Feldstein serves on the board of directors of the Independent Sector and the National Center for Family Philanthropy. He co-chaired the Harvard University three-year Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America. He received six honorary doctorates. Feldstein was selected as one of the 100 people Who Shaped New Hampshire by the Concord Monitor and one of the 10 most influential people in New Hampshire by Business NH magazine in 2001.
In July, Dr. Stephen Reno completed nine years of service as chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire. He served formerly as the president of Southern Oregon University, associate provost and interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern Maine, and has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Leicester (England), the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an Honorary Fellow
of the University of Winchester (England). He holds doctor’s and master’s degrees in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College (California).
Reno is chair of the board of trustees of New Hampshire Public Radio and of Stay Work Play NH, and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Lumina Foundation. He has served on the boards of the Business and Industry Association, New Hampshire Public Television, the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, and as treasurer of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. He is currently a research professor at the University System of New Hampshire and an Ad Hoc Fellow at the Center
for the Study of World Religion at Harvard University.
Tickets for the annual dinner, including the Lifetime Achievement Awards presentation, are available by calling 603.224.5388 x116 or click here. Tables of 10 are $1,000 and individual tickets are $110.
Past winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award are Stephen Barba, the Balsams Grand Resort; Patrick Duffy, P. Duffy and Associates; Sylvio Dupuis, Notre Dame College; Courtland Freese and George Freese, Jr., Globe Manufacturing Co.; John Frisbee, New Hampshire Historical Society; William S. Green, Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green; Saul Greenspan, Seco; Eli Isaacson, Isaacson Structural Steel; Andrew Lietz, University System; Malcolm McLane, Orr and Reno; Jack Middleton, McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton;
John Morrison II, Hitchiner Manufacturing; J. Bonnie Newman, Kennedy School of Government; Walter Peterson, Franklin Pierce College; Henry Powers, Sprague Energy; David Putnam, Markem Corp.; F. Fuller Ripley, Troy Mills; William Ruger, Sr., Sturm Ruger and Co.; Neil Tillotson, Tillotson Corp.; James Wagner, Nexfor Fraser Papers; and Kimon Zachos, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green.
Sponsors of the 2009 BIA Annual Dinner include:
Platinum – Citizens Bank, Comcast, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, FairPoint Communications, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Laconia Savings Bank, Liberty Mutual Group, Public Service of New Hampshire, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Unitil, Waste Management and Wheelabrator;
Media – New Hampshire Union Leader;
Gold – Bank of America, Elliot Health System, Fidelity Investments, Hypertherm, Lincoln Financial Group, Millennium Integrated Marketing, New Hampshire Public Television, StoreyManseau LLC and TD Bank;
Wine – the Balsams Grand Resort; Centerpiece – Rath Young and Pignatelli; Dessert – The Anagnost Companies and Littleton Coin Co.;
Silver – Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire, Audi of Stratham, BAE Systems, Baker Newman Noyes, Devine Millimet and Branch, Grappone Automotive Group, LRG Healthcare, Maloney and Kennedy, McLane Graf Raulerson and Middleton, New Hampshire Ball Bearings, New Hampshire Business Review, Normandeau Associates, Northeast Delta Dental, The Rowley Agency, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green, and Town and Country Reprographics.
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