Return-path: X-Spam-Score: 5 Received: from exchange.kent.edu (unverified [131.123.249.136]) by mail10.e-zone.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 9.2.0) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:53:23 +0100 Received: from KENTS-MBX01.KENTS.LOCAL ([131.123.249.164]) by KENTS-HUBCAS01.KENTS.LOCAL ([131.123.249.136]) with mapi; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:51:11 -0500 From: "MCINTYRE, G" To: "OEOC Contacts (bmcintyre28@hotmail.com)" Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:51:09 -0500 Subject: Message from the Staff of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center Thread-Topic: Message from the Staff of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center Thread-Index: AcqDYaIvz+eQoAStTnu4Dz4IahNnqg== Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_A78145621A070E4885D3EA7C8608F9421573F22DE7KENTSMBX01KEN_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_A78145621A070E4885D3EA7C8608F9421573F22DE7KENTSMBX01KEN_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We at the Ohio Employee Ownership Center want to let you know our plans aft= er losing our Director, John Logue, who passed away on December 9 after six= weeks of illness. John founded the OEOC at Kent State University in 1987 and led it through 2= 3 years of growth, both in number of programs offered and in size and quali= ty of staff. He built a staff that includes 8 full-time and 3 part-time pr= ofessionals and 2 part-time clerical assistants. Among them are a former C= EO, General Manager and CFO of ESOP companies; a former banker; a former un= ion leader; a retired political science professor; and two staffers with 1= 2-20 years at the OEOC serving the employee ownership world. It is a very strong and able staff, and we are all dedicated to continuing = to implement John's vision of economic democracy through employee ownership= . All of our programs will continue, including: * Owners At Work semi-annual magazine * Business Owner Succession Planning * Rural Employee-Owned Cooperative Development * Technical Assistance for businesses considering employee ownership * State of Ohio Prefeasibility Study Grant administration * OEOC Professional Memberships for service providers * Common Wealth Revolving Loan Fund loans to employee-owned companies * Coordination of the activities of Ohio's Network of Employee-Owned Compa= nies * Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference * Conducting national Employee Owner Retreats for The ESOP Association * Research on employee ownership We look forward to working with you for a long time, and thank you for your= past, present and future support. Best regards, The Staff of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center Jim Anderson Olga Klepikova Steve Clem Bill McIntyre Chris Cooper Roy Messing Kelley Fitts Jay Simecek Denise Hayward Karen Thomas Pam Hejduk Jackie Yates Ashley Hernandez ******** Ohio Employee Ownership Center Kent State University 113 McGilvrey Hall Kent, OH 44242 330-672-3028 -- general 330-672-4063 -- fax e: oeoc@kent.edu www.oeockent.org -- NEW WEBSITE! --_000_A78145621A070E4885D3EA7C8608F9421573F22DE7KENTSMBX01KEN_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

We at the Ohio Employee Ownership Center want to let you know our p= lans after losing our Director, John Logue, who passed away on December 9 after = six weeks of illness. 

 

John founded the OEOC at Kent State University in 1987 and led it through 23 years of growth, both in number of programs offered and in size = and quality of staff.  He built a staff that includes 8 full-time and 3 part-time professionals and 2 part-time clerical assistants.  Among th= em are a former CEO, General Manager and CFO of ESOP companies; a former banke= r; a former union leader; a retired political science professor;  and two staffers with 12-20 years at the OEOC serving the employee ownership world.=

 

It is a very strong and able staff, and we are all dedicated to continuing to implement John’s vision of economic democracy through employee ownership.

 

All of our programs will continue, including:

•  Own= ers At Work semi-annual magazine

•  Bus= iness Owner Succession Planning

•  Rur= al Employee-Owned Cooperative Development

•  Tec= hnical Assistance for businesses considering employee ownership

•  Sta= te of Ohio Prefeasibility Study Grant administration

•  OEO= C Professional Memberships for service providers

•  Com= mon Wealth Revolving Loan Fund loans to employee-owned companies<= /p>

•  Coo= rdination of the activities of Ohio’s Network of Employee-Owned Companies

•  Ann= ual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference

•  Con= ducting national Employee Owner Retreats for The ESOP Association

•  Res= earch on employee ownership

 

We look forward to working with you for a long time, and thank you = for your past, present and future support.

 

Best regards,

The Staff of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Jim Anderson      =             &nb= sp;            =             Olga Kle= pikova

Steve Clem    = ;            &n= bsp;            = ;            &n= bsp;     Bill McIntyre

Chris Cooper      =             &nb= sp;            =              Ro= y Messing

Kelley Fitts      =             &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp;   Jay Simecek

Denise Hayward     &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;        Karen Thomas

Pam Hejduk      &n= bsp;            = ;            &n= bsp;            = ;  Jackie Yates

Ashley Hernandez

 

 

********

Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Kent State University

113 McGilvrey Hall

Kent, OH 44242

330-672-3028 -- general

330-672-4063 -- fax

e:  oeoc@ke= nt.edu  

www.oeockent.org= -= - NEW WEBSITE!<= /span>

 

 

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