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Written by RV Life Magazine
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 12:33 |
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The RV/MH Heritage Foundation has selected 11 people to be inducted into its Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana, August 6 for their contributions to the recreational vehicle and manufactured housing industries.
The inductees include Bob Olson, the retired chairman and CEO of Winnebago Industries, and Stanley Sunshine, who was on the boards of the RV Aftermarket Association and Recreation Vehicle Industry Association while serving as chairman of Stag-Parkway, a distributor of RV parts and accessories.
Housing industry leaders elected to the Hall of Fame include Michael R. Evans, founder and developer of Centennial Homes in South Dakota; Doug Gorman, founder and owner of Home-Mart, a manufactured housing retailer in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Gerald (Jiggs) Meuret, who established Housing Mart in Wausau, Wisconsin, and served 32 years on the board of the Wisconsin Housing Alliance, and Mary Irene Younkin of Columbus, Ohio, who has developed housing communities and founded Dycom Industries, which serves the telecommunications industry. Younkin’s late husband and son are also in the RV/MH Hall of Fame.
The 2012 class includes five people who are deceased: Nelson Jackson and his wife, Mary Emily, founders of the Ocean Lakes Family RV Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Edith Lane, who founded the national Loaners on Wheels club for single RV travelers and developed three RV parks; Ellwood A. Titcomb, who pioneered the development of housing communities as president of Americorp, and Peter Yoder of Middlebury, Indiana, who worked for four RV manufacturers and a component supplier and created a patented slideout mechanism for RVs.
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