Earl Haney and Rick Steiner Win Fellowship Award
By Jerry Lovell—IGBO Fellowship Committee Chair
Republished from October 2005 IGBO Newsletter
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| Earl Haney and Rick Steiner 2005
Fellowship Award Recipients |
May 2005—The IGBO Fellowship Award “IGBO’s Highest
Honor” was awarded to Rick Steiner of Milwaukee,
WI and Earl Haney of Grand Rapids,
MI at IGBO’s 25th Annual Banquet held in Milwaukee,
WI.
Rick has been involved with the Holiday Invitational
Tournament for the past 15 years and has
held various officer positions in the Best Bowling
League. Ric Rick is known to help new bowlers feel
welcome and help get them adjusted in the Milwaukee
area. Rick continues to support and has
been in-charge of a fundraising event called MILMAIDS,
which raises funds for the Holiday Invitational
Tournament and a local aids clinic.
Earl has been instrumental in the growth of his
Sunday league and has made most of the bowlers
more aware of what IGBO is. He runs a very large
straight league in Grand Rapids and is out to the
league but it doesn’t matter which is building bridges
between the two communities. He volunteers for
fundraisers that support local non-profit agencies.
Earl is at the center of the annual bus trip from
Grand Rapids to the Toronto tournament, which
the bowlers have really enjoyed and benefited from
his hard work.
The committee would like and encourage bowlers
to nominate individuals who deserve to be recognized
for the work they do in leagues, tournaments
and IGBO committees as well as local communities
support and volunteerism. The Fellowship
Award nomination form is enclosed in this
newsletter [available at this web site]. Please complete it and send it to me
no later than November 30, 2005. The list of nominees will be published in the January 2006
issue of the IGBO newsletter. I hope to see at
least one nomination from each region for this
years’ selection, which will take place in Kansas
City, Missouri.
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