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Orin C. Hutchcraft Quality Service AwardCarl G. Carlson wins 15th Annual Orin C. Hutchcraft Quality Service Award
Winner Carl G. Carlson receives
award from Association President Mark Paiser Carl G. Carlson, Berryman Transfer, Joliet IL, won this year's prestigious Orin C. Hutchcraft Quality Service Award. He received the award on March 7, 2006, during IMAWA's 53rd Anniversary Convention in Springfield. Carlson entered the moving business in 1971, coming from a background as a "mild mannered insurance salesman." His son tells stories of watching Dad under a truck on a 10 degree morning trying to get it started, and going along with Mom and Sisters to bring dinner to him and the crew at 8:00 at night while a job was still going. Carlson has served on important committees both for the IMAWA and for Bekins Van Lines. He has been a close friend of the community as a member of the Will County School Board, Joliet Junior College Trustee, and member of the Joliet Rotary Club. In addition to serving his church as a deacon and elder, he volunteered to serve as an unpaid general contractor to build a new addition to his church. In the aftermath of a tornado that ripped through Plainfield, IL, in the 80's, he offered crews to assist residents with the cleanup. After another tornado in Oklahoma City, he volunteered a driver and truck to transport relief supplies to victims. He has offered his warehouse to organizations collecting medical supplies to ship overseas for relief agencies and has coordinated the shipment of goods overseas. He works with a food bank, hosting weekly pickup of food for the needy organizations within his community. Within the past couple of years, Carlson and his lovely wife, Carolyn, have semi-retired to Florida and sold their business to their son, David. He remains on our e-mail list, and we're told that from time to time he forwards our bulletins to his son, "just in case he missed it." Orin C. Hutchcraft
Eligibility: Nominee must be an employee of a current IMAWA member (or retired from IMAWA member). Members include both mover members and associate members. Any member employee may qualify for nomination (consideration is not limited to management personnel). Criteria: Among other things, the committee shall consider the nominee's individual tenure (length of employment) and reputation in the moving and storage industry, the nominee's individual community and charitable activities, and the nominee's personal active participation in the Illinois Movers' and Warehousemen's Association. Quality service toward a member's own customers is ordinary and expected. Of particular importance for this award are activities "above and beyond the call of duty" that have contributed to the positive public perception of the moving and storage business and the improvement of the industry as a whole. The award is presented annually at the IMAWA convention. For more information about how to nominate a candidate
for next year's award, e-mail IMAWA.
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About
the Award: As a charter member of IMAWA, member of the Board of
Directors for many years, president, and untiring volunteer, Orin
C. Hutchcraft made more contributions to the Association and Tariff
Bureau than can ever be counted. To perpetuate the values in which
he believed and to recognize his many contributions to IMAWA and
to the moving industry, the Association named this distinguished
award as a tribute to him.©2007 Illinois Movers’ and Warehousemen’s Association | Terms of Use
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