Subject: Message from the Staff of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center
From: "MCINTYRE, G" <[email-masked]>
To: "OEOC Contacts ([email-masked])" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:51:09 -0500

We at the Ohio Employee Ownership Center want to let you know our plans 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 them are a former CEO, General Manager and CFO of ESOP companies; a former banker; 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:
*  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 Companies
*  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

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Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Kent State University
113 McGilvrey Hall
Kent, OH 44242
330-672-3028 -- general
330-672-4063 -- fax
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