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The Regional
Business Council
Investing in the Region
The Regional Business
Council at the RCGA, made up of executives from major large- to
medium-size regional companies, is dedicated to increasing the
number of businesspersons involved in and investing in regional
growth.
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United
Way Benefits from Regional Business Council Leadership
Members
of The Regional Business Council are answering the call to strengthen
health and human services in the greater St. Louis area through
leadership roles with the United Way. David L. Steward,
chairman and CEO of World Wide Technology, Inc., is lending his
support to the United Way as a member of the Board’s Executive
Committee, and is co-chairing the African American Leadership
Giving Initiative with his wife, Thelma E. Steward. This
initiative recognizes African Americans giving $1,000 or more
to the annual fund-raising campaign that topped the $1 million
mark in 1999. This is a sizable growth from the $87,000 annual
result in 1994 when the initiative was formed by Dr. Donald
Suggs, president and publisher of the St. Louis American,
who is also an active Board member of the United Way and The Council.
David
and Thelma Steward |
“The payoff of the investment is that we will build a stronger
community that will mean better lives for all of us,” Steward
says. “That’s something that African Americans have supported
over the years, and we believe they will support again.”
Awards, Honors, and Recognition to Regional Business Council
Members
John Bachmann, managing partner of Edward Jones and an
ex-officio member of The Council, is on the Board Executive Committee
and is the Vice Chair for the United Way 2000 Annual Campaign
and will be Chair of the Campaign in 2002.
Joe
Blomker |
Joe Blomker, president of Maryville Technologies, is leading
the Venture Division, a new focus of the United Way 2000 Annual
Campaign implemented to expand involvement in the community’s
technology companies.
Arnold W. Donald, chairman and CEO of Merisant Company,
has recently joined the United Way Board.
Terrance C.Z. Egger, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
was appointed to United Way’s Board Executive Committee and is
also chairing the Marketing and Communications Committee.
Albert Fontenot, Jr., chairman, president and CEO of Eagle,
OPG, Inc., is active as a member of the United Way Board. RCGA
president and CEO Dick Fleming, an ex officio member of
The Council also serves as a United Way Board member.
E. Desmond Lee, chairman, Des Lee Foundation, is continuing
his commitment to the community as a member of the United Way
Board.
Jerry McElhatton, senior executive vice president, MasterCard
International, is also volunteering his time by guiding the United
Way as a member of the Board’s Executive Committee.
Ellen Sherberg, publisher of the St. Louis Business Journal,
is a United Way Board member and the Vice Chair for the Community
Division of the 2000 Annual Campaign. She also founded the Women’s
Leadership Giving Initiative in 1996, which has raised nearly
$8.7 million since its inception.
Additional Council members involved with the United Way are:
Ralph Clermont, managing partner, KMPG LLP; Bruce B. Holland,
president, Holland-Hinrichs Construction Company; Franklin
A. Jacobs, chairman and CEO Falcon Products, Inc.; Ralph
Korte, chairman, The Korte Company; Kathy Osborn, director
of The Regional Business Council; and John Musgrave, managing
partner, Thompson Coburn.
For more information contact Kathy Osborn, senior vice president
RCGA, at 314/444-1160 or E-mail her at kosborn@stlrcga.org.
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