Anderson
Shahan
Progressive Dental at
Domino’s Farms announced
Sean Anderson has joined the practice as Director of Operations.
Anderson will oversee all the business affairs and acting controller for the company.
Anderson brings 15 years of executive business management and project management, which will help serve Progressive Dentals’ expansion while streamlining operations. Anderson will also be working directly with the doctors and staff ensuring patient care will continue to be their primary focus during this growth process.
Progressive Dental also announced that Kelly (Shea)
Shahan has been appointed
Office Manager. Shahan currently has over 10 years of experience in both the dental insurance industry and in dental private practice administrative positions.
Progressive Dental, PLC is a full service family general and cosmetic practice caring for over 2,200 patients in southeast
Michigan. p
Four months after gaining
City approval to build Near North,
Avalon Housing announced that the Ann Arbor project has been awarded $250,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The 39 units of affordable, green rental housing on North Main street will benefit households earning less than 50 percent of the
Area Median Income (AMI), with
14 of the units reserved for tenants with special needs earning less than 30 percent AMI.
Developed in partnership with
Three Oaks Group, Near North features a sustainable site design, water-conserving fixtures, energyefficient appliances/lighting, and environmentally friendly building materials.
Susan Wiese , Corrigan
Moving Systems, Ann Arbor, was honored recently with United
Van Lines’ Masters Club Award at United’s national sales and operations conference. Corrigan
Moving Systems is an agent of the worldwide household goods transportation company.
United’s Masters Club is a reward and recognition program for agency sales representatives for exceptional sales achievement during the past year in five business segment categories— corporate account household goods, residential household
The shareholders of CSB
Bancorp, Inc. and Chelsea State
Bank elected James R. Breining,
Sr.
to the board of directors for both entities. Chelsea Sate Bank
President and CEO John Mann announced the election.
Breining owns and operates
G&C Sales, LLC and Jackson
Machine Tool, LLC. G&C Sales, formed in 1997, is engaged in the sale of new and used machinery and equipment serving the needs of manufacturers. Jackson Machine
Tool, formed in 2004, operates in the contract labor business for the machine tool industry.
Breining is also the former president, chief operating officer and director of Ann Arbor
Machine. He was elected to the Board of CSB Bancorp for a three-year term, along with incumbents John Mann and Scott
Tanner. They join existing board members Peter Flintoft, Kenneth
Gietzen, Kathleen Griffiths, Mark
Heydlauff, Dudley Holmes, Jr.,
David Schaible, and Marni Schmid on the board of both Chelsea State
Bank and CSB Bancorp.
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Along with local and HUD support, Near North has received commitments from the Michigan
State Housing Development
Authority. “MSHDA’s commitment of $800,000 of
HOME funds from our Supportive
Housing Program is made even more compelling by the sustainable, green design features in Near North, said Peter Hughes,
MSHDA’s Housing Development
Officer. Near North’s application for this funding under MSHDA’s
Low Income Housing Tax Credit program is pending.
“Green building makes sense for tenants, owners and the community, but it’s not without financial barriers, especially for affordable housing,” said Michael
Appel, Avalon’s Executive
Director. All 39 units of Near
North will be certified as ENERGY
STAR-qualified housing, under the terms of the grant award. Tenants will also be given information on maintaining their apartments in a manner that’s consistent with the
“green” features and standards of the building. p
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124 eligible United agency sales representatives qualified for the
Masters Club.
United Van Lines transports electronic equipment, trade show exhibits and displays, works of art, and specialized freight, in addition to household goods. United, with headquarters located in suburban
St. Louis, maintains a network of
1,000 affiliated agencies in 135 countries around the world. p
Software Architect. Engalan has an extensive background as a software developer, team leader and architect. He is currently in a leadership-consulting role with
Stout’s interactive marketing, social media and branding clientele.
Stout Systems is an Ann
Arbor-based software consulting and staff company founded in
1993. p of
Bruce Franson, Vice President
Servant Systems that the Ann Arbor software firm has released the Domino’s Pulse™
Polling software, a new product enabling Domino’s multi-unit franchisees to retrieve files and reports from their Domino’s units.
Integrated with the Domino’s
Pulse™ Franchise Office System, the software will retrieve and store database backups and selected reports for multiple years with immediate access to the reports.
The
, announced
Domino’s Pulse™
Franchise Office System is currently used in Domino’s Swiss multi-unit and U.S. franchise operations. In the U.S., some 30 franchisees have been using the system since it was first deployed in 2005.
Servant Systems, a Microsoft
Certified Partner since 1992, is a software solutions provider. p
Hile Design LLC has been hired to design and develop
Blazent Inc.’s user interface for one of their upcoming software products. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Mateo,
California, Blazent’s software organizes and aggregates a company’s asset information into a streamlined data report.
Blazent has four office locations throughout the country including a local support branch in Novi,
Michigan.
Hile Design is an Ann Arbor advertising and graphic design company that has been serving businesses of all sizes for over 25 years. p
United Bancorp, Inc . announced that its two banks,
United Bank & Trust and United
Bank & Trust – Washtenaw have united as one bank effective April
1, 2010 and are operating under the United Bank & Trust name.
The bank has sixteen full service offices in Lenawee, Monroe and
Washtenaw counties. p Stout Systems announced that Edgardo Engalan has joined its technical staff as a
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United Bank & Trust has announced the winners of its
Chairman’s Club Award for the fourth quarter of 2009. Each quarter, Chairman’s Club honorees are nominated and chosen by fellow co-workers for outstanding organizational commitment, support, client service, flexibility, teamwork, and cooperation.
The honorees are Julie
Adams , Loan Quality Reviewer;
Kenny Leonard , Vice President,
United Structured Financial; and
Dana Stump , Personal Lending
Officer.
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ALS of Michigan , Inc. announced the election of the following officers for two-year terms to its Board of Directors:
President, Jay Welford, JD, Jaffe,
Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, PC; Vice
President, Linda Hiller Novak,
Max Broock & Associates;
Treasurer, Mark Smith, JD, CPA,
Magna, Inc.; and Secretary Eva
Freed, M & M Investor’s Service.
ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, affects more than 30,000 people across the United States. In Michigan alone, more than 1,200 people are currently battling this disease.
ALS attacks the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control the ability to move, speak, swallow and eventually breathe, while the mind stays fully aware.
ALS of Michigan is a nonprofit organization, which provides services, education and support to people with ALS, their families and caregivers in Michigan to help them live as fully as possible.
It also supports research into the cause, treatment and cure for ALS. p
Butzel Long senior attorney
Chris Mitchell authored a guest article that appeared in the March 2010 edition of the
MichBIO LINK newsletter.
MichBIO is the biosciences industry trade association and the official Michigan affiliate of the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, BIO, which represents biotechnology companies across America and in 33 other nations. The article was titled “Saving Money on
Intellectual Property. Practically.”
The article focused on practical ways to help control IP expenses without sacrificing quality.
Based in Butzel Long’s
Ann Arbor office, Mitchell specializes in intellectual property law. He focuses his practice in the areas of consumer products, medical devices, and automotive components. He counsels clients in adopting and leveraging all facets of their intellectual property beginning with the earliest phases of product development and continuing beyond commercialization.
Butzel Long is a leading law firm with 220 attorneys in
Michigan offices in Ann Arbor,
Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, and
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Joseph Rosa , the Art Institute of Chicago’s chief curator of architecture and design, will become the new director of the
University of Michigan Museum of Art. The appointment, pending approval by the U-M Board of
Regents, is effective July 1.
The selection came after an international search conducted by a 14-member search advisory committee appointed by U-M
President Mary Sue Coleman.
Rosa will become the seventh director of UMMA.
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“I am thrilled and honored to be given this wonderful opportunity to lead the University of Michigan Museum of Art into the future at this very special time in its history,” said Rosa, who is the John H. Bryan Curatorial
Chair of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Rosa has curated more than
30 exhibitions on contemporary architecture and design and is the author of 14 books. His writings have appeared in
Praxis, Architectural Design,
Assemblage, Casabella, The
History of Photography Journal,
Oculus, Architekur & Bauforum, and Progressive Architecture.
He is also a noted scholar on the architect Albert Frey—the first disciple of Le Corbusier to build in America—and Julius Shulman, the highly acclaimed 20 th century architectural photographer.
Prior to joining the Art
Institute of Chicago, Rosa was the Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, the curator of architecture at the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the chief curator at the National Building Museum in
Washington, D.C., and the director of the Columbia Architecture
Galleries in New York.
Rosa received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Pratt
Institute, a M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and
Preservation, and was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology. He has worked in the architectural firms of
Gwathmey Siegel and Associates,
Peter Eisenman, and Agrest &
Gandelsonas.
U-M’s art collection is among the oldest university collection in the nation. In March 2009,
UMMA opened a $41.9 million expansion and restoration project. p ognized TDS for its outstanding sales performance and excellence in meeting customer solution, service and support needs.
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TDS Telecommunications
Corp, one of North America’s largest ITSP, announced it has been named “Polycom North
American ITSP Partner of the
Year” by Polycom, Inc., a global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions.
The award, given in conjunction with the 2010 TEAM Polycom’s annual partner conference, rec-
ProQuest, a leading information technology firm supporting global research, has been awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) prestigious
ENERGY STAR for its Ann Arbor headquarters building. The building, located on Eisenhower
Parkway, is managed by commercial real estate Transwestern.
ENERGY STAR, the national symbol for protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency, signifies that the building performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency.
Commercial buildings that earn the ENERGY STAR use an average of 35 percent less energy than typical buildings and also release 35 percent less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. To improve its energy performance,
ProQuest manages energy strategically across the entire organization and has also invested in cost-effective improvements to its buildings around the world.
These include a variety of simple changes, such as swapping out old computers and appliances for
ENERGY STAR-rated replacements, installing reduced wattage light bulbs and setting thermostats to more moderate comfort heating/cooling set points, as well as implementation of sophisticated new lighting and building control systems that automatically find and implement power efficiencies. p

Dr. James Hawkins has been named, and will be honored with, the
2010 Distinguished Service Award, at the Chamber’s Annual Meeting
& Award Dinner on May 6. In
May 2005 Dr. Hawkins became the
Interim Superintendent of Schools, upon the board’s request in January
2006, he became Superintendent of Schools and remained in that position until September 2009.
Prior to May 2005, Dr. Hawkins was an educational consultant with the Oakland Schools ISD, Interim
Superintendent of Schools for the School District of the City of
Pontiac, Superintendent of Schools in Gary, Indiana and Assistant
Superintendent of Evanston/Skokie District 65 in Evanston, Illinois.
Some of his other accomplishments include: High Scope Educational
Research Foundation Board of Directors; Mayor’s Appointment – Board of Ethics, Ypsilanti; Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on City Finances,
Ypsilanti; Board of Directors, Parents Together, Ypsilanti; NAACP
Executive Board, Ypsilanti; Sigma Pi Phi, Chair of Social Action
Committee, Ypsilanti; Second Baptist Church, Chair of Scholarship
Committee, Ypsilanti and Kappa Alpha Psi Member.
Dr. Hawkins has authored several articles on educational topics and has been the presenter at the American Association for School
Administrators National Convention and the National Alliance of Black
School Educators, been featured in People magazine, and has appeared on the Phil Donahue Show and AM Chicago. He has been recognized with the Excellence in Educational Leadership Award by the University of Michigan (2007); the Golden Apple Award from Western Michigan
University (2007); the Outstanding Communicator Award by the
National School Public Relations Association (2006); the Outstanding
Leadership Award presented by the Negro Business and Professional
Women’s Club; the Education Award from Brown Chapel’s Brotherhood
Banquet; the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from
Eastern Michigan; the Marcus Foster Distinguished Educator of the Year from the National Alliance of Black School Educators and many more distinguished awards and accolades.
Dr. Hawkins earned a B.S. from Western Michigan University in
1963, a Master’s degree in guidance and counseling from Wayne State
University in 1967 and received his Ph.D. in educational administration from Michigan State University in 1972. n
Thomas M. Cooley Law
School joined forces recently with the Washtenaw County
Bar Association, the Oakland
County Bar Association, Ford/
UAW Retirees, and several other community groups in Operation
IraqPac, a semi-annual drive that collects items requested by
American troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Students, faculty and staff from Cooley’s Ann Arbor and
Auburn Hills campuses collected non-perishable food items, clothing, personal care items, reading materials and more for the troops. Assistant Dean Dan Ray oversaw the project in Ann Arbor while Assistant Dean Martha
Moore, in Auburn Hills, was the lead coordinator for that campus.
“He really took the lead at
Auburn Hills by working to get the word out and to get other groups like the Oakland County Bar
Association involved, Ray said of Walker, who recently retired from the military. Ray said he also received tremendous help in
Ann Arbor from student volunteer
Dylan Jones, who assisted with donation pickups and other logistical details.
Walker and fellow student
Eric Keebler spent nearly all day
March 16 traveling around Ann
Arbor and Ypsilanti collecting the donations from Washtenaw
County Bar Association members and others in the community. On
March 18, volunteers spent hours of their time to organize, pack and label the boxes.
John David of Emergency
Restoration Services donated a large panel truck to move all the donations to the Ford National Parts
Distribution Center warehouse.
Ford Motor Company donated the use of its warehouse to collect and prepare donations for shipping.
Donations are then taken to the post office for shipping.
IraqPac began in 2004 with care packages sent to the Marine brother of a Ford worker. From there it has grown into a multiorganization effort, coordinated by Ford/UAW Retiree Barbara
Grasso. More than 700 care packages weighing over 10 tons valued in excess of $70,000 have been shipped to U.S. Marines and Army troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan. For volunteer information, email rayd@cooley.
edu. n
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