Milling & Baking News - June 19, 2007 - 45

Industry Activities

American Society of Baking seeks
Baking Hall of Fame nominations
SONOMA, CALIF. - In the wake of
the highly successful presentations
of the second class of Baking Hall of
Fame inductees earlier this year, the
American Society of Baking is seeking
nominations for 2008.
In preparation for the induction ceremony to be held March 3 in Chicago,
the A.S.B. will be accepting nominations until a deadline of Oct. 10.
According to the A.S.B, the hall has
been established "as a tribute to those
individuals who have made a significant contribution to the advancement
of the baking industry."
Anyone may place in nomination
the names of individuals who have

made contributions in the areas of
baking science, production, engineering, equipment design, ingredient
technology, research, education or
trade publishing.
Thom Kuk, A.S.B. president, said
four criteria have been established in
evaluating applications: scope of recognition, professional achievement, impact on industry as well as the personal
judgment of each committee member.
The 10 members of the selection
committee have more than 300 years
of combined industry experience, representing baking, equipment manufacturing, ingredient technology and
baking related services.

Ron Savelli and Brian LeComte
joining A.B.A. board of directors
WASHINGTON - Ron Savelli, president and chief executive officer of Caravan Ingredients, Lenexa,
Kas., and Brian LeComte, treasurer of Gold
Medal Bakery in Fall
River, Mass., have been
appointed to the American Bakers Association
board of directors.
Savelli
Mr. Savelli will represent the A.B.A. allied members on the
board. He was named president of Caravan in December by its parent company

With an

CSM Bakery Supplies North America.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Savelli spent
seven years with Caravan Products
before joining Progressive Bagel
Inc./Einstein Noah Bagel as vicepresident of product development.
He returned to Caravan in 2003 as
vice-president of sales and marketing. Caravan Ingredients was formed
in 2006 with the merger of Caravan
Products and American Ingredients
into a single operating company.
More recently, the company acquired
the specialty bakery ingredients busi-

Inducted into the hall in 2007 were
Dean and Betty Arnold of Arnold's
Bread/George Weston Bakeries; R.L.
Nafziger of Nafziger Bakery/Interstate Bakeries Corp.; John Paterakis
of Northeast Foods; Lorenzo and
Roberto Servitje Sendra of Grupo
Bimbo; Thomas Belshaw of Belshaw
Brothers; Ron, Miles and Steve Jones
of Dawn Food Products; and Dr. William Hoover of the American Institute
of Baking/Kansas State University.
The inaugural inductees from 2006
were Ninnie L. Baird and family, Margaret Rudkin, Charles Lubin, William
and Joseph Flowers, William Entenmann, Catherine T. Clark, Russell
Bundy, Harold H. Stewart, C.J. Patterson, Ray Thelen, Morton Sosland
and family, Ernst J. Pyler and William
Edgar Long. MBN
ness of Archer Daniels Midland Co.
Mr. LeComte joined the company after graduating in 2002 from Providence
College with an accounting degree. He
began as an assistant controller and in
2004 was named treasurer, overseeing finance,
human resources and information technology.
Gold Medal operates
two baking plants, in
Fall River, Mass., and
West Haven, Conn.
LeComte
Mr. LeComte has
been an active member of A.B.A. and
a participant in the Executive Leadership Development Committee, the
A.B.A. said. MBN

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