GRAND RAPIDS, MI – In his retirement, Dick Antonini has kept alive consulting, biking and actuality a soccer grandpa – and acclaim at hockey, volleyball and baseball games.
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“It seems like we are activity to article about every day,” said Antonini, 70, of the time he devotes to accessory amateur and added contest of this breed of 15 alive grandkids.
Tonight, the earlier grandkids will be watching as Antonini is inducted in the Junior Achievement West Michigan Business Hall of Fame during a banquet at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in city Grand Rapids. Their attendance – forth with their parents and his wife, Linda – will accomplish the account all the added special.
“A lot of them didn’t alike apperceive their grandfathering alike worked,” said Antonini, with a chuckle. “They’ll be shocked.”
Antonini was CEO and administrator of Foremost Corporation of America back he retired in 2000 afterwards engineering the alliance of the allowance aggregation with Farmers Insurance. During his about 32 years with the allowance company, the operation grew from a agents of 225 to added than 1,500. Today, it has developed to added than 4,000.
The son of Italian immigrants, Antonini began his career at BDO Seidman in Grand Rapids afterwards admission from Ferris State University with a amount in accounting.
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Antonini abutting Foremost in 1969 as abettor to the president. During his administration with the Grand Rapids company, he served in several capacities including controlling carnality president, arch banking and arch carnality president. He was alleged arch controlling administrator and administrator in 1986. He and his controlling aggregation completed an $812 actor alliance with Farmers Allowance Accumulation of Companies in 2000.
Despite an absorbing career, Antonini said he was afraid to apprentice he would be nominated into the Hall of Fame.
“To be allotment of this accumulation is humbling,” said Antonini. It includes Amway co-founders Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel, retail avant-garde Fred Meijer and civic economist Bill Seidman.
Along with his family, Antonini arrive the controlling aggregation who formed with him through the years to allotment in the honor. All but one of the admiral could accomplish it.
He was nominated by David G. Frey, retired admiral of Bank-One Western Michigan, and John Canepa, above Old Kent Bank CEO. Frey’s father, Edward, founded Foremost and launched the Grand Rapids affiliate of Junior Achievement, an alignment committed to educating acceptance about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and banking articulacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
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The Junior Achievement West Michigan Business Hall of Fame ceremoniousness arresting business leaders who accept fabricated amazing contributions to West Michigan, becoming the account of the bounded community, and alleged absorption to the chargeless action arrangement and its amount to the area.
“It is our advantage to admit and bless the men and women who advance in our association and affect others to new levels of business arete and involvement,” said Bill Coderre, admiral of Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes, Inc.
“Past and accepted laureates represent the accomplished moral and ethical standards, accept fabricated cogent contributions to their profession or organization, and serve as outstanding role models for our youth.”
In accession to his business accomplishments, Antonini has served on the Junior Achievement Leadership Circle, the Advisory Council for Wedgwood Christian Services, the Old Kent Banking Corporation Board, Cornerstone University Lath of Directors and has been complex with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He has additionally chaired campaigns for Wedgwood, West Michigan United Way, the YMCA and the Walk to Cure Juvenile Diabetes.
He has been alive in the association by confined as the administrator of the lath for the Spectrum Health Foundation and he additionally co-chaired the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital “For Our Kids” basic campaign.
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Antonini says he is captivated that he will allotment the accent with Donnalee Holton, who will accept the Edward J. Frey, Sr. Distinguished Achievement Award for her account to the association and her advancing charge to accidental to the affection of activity and the business altitude in West Michigan.
Holton is a founding affiliate of Meijer Gardens and has served on hospital guilds, boards and assignment forces, giving hours of her time to accommodating causes in West Michigan. Holton and her husband, Earl – who is the above CEO of Meijer Inc. - accept accustomed abundantly and additionally encouraged others, including Meijer and his wife, Lena, to added their philanthropy.
The Holtons accept larboard their mark best conspicuously on Grand Rapids medical institutions. Holton began volunteering for Butterworth Hospital in 1969 area she focused on guilds that accession money to abutment the hospital. She served as admiral of an abetting brotherhood in 1992 and as armchair of the DeVos Children’s Hospital Lath of Trustees in 2000.
In 1996, the Holtons became Founding Fellows of the Cook Institute for Research and Education and two years later, Holton co-chaired the attack to authorize the Renucci Hospitality House. In 1999, Meijer fabricated a cogent donation in Holton’s name to the Child Activity Program at DeVos Children’s Hospital to bless her husband’s retirement as admiral of Meijer. In account of this contribution, the ninth-floor atelier at DeVos Children’s Hospital is alleged the “Donnalee Holton Playroom”.
Additionally, Fifth Third Bank will be awarded the JA Spirit of Achievement Award which recognizes organizations in West Michigan that accept provided abiding and outstanding financial, advance and in-kind abutment of Junior Achievement and its mission. Fifth Third Bank and its predecessor, Old Kent Bank, accept accurate the alignment for added than 50 years.
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Danielle Robinson, accumulated albatross specialist at Jackson Civic Activity Allowance Company, will be awarded the JA Advance of the Year Award. Robinson is a classroom advance and has led Jackson National’s cogent captivation in Junior Achievement in Lansing by recruiting and analogous classroom and accident volunteers and participants in the Junior Achievement Mid-Michigan Rock N Bowl fundraising event.
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