West’s
Promotion To V.P. Emphasizes “Safety
First”
Message
(4th Quarter 2002)
The Vecellio Group has a proud history of successfully serving the
contracting industry. There
’s nothing like looking back on a completed
highway, street or site development job and knowing
you were part of making it happen!
But the industry
also carries the risk of injury unless proper safety procedures are followed
at all times. It is everyone's job to reduce this risk by learning and
applying approved safety methods and techniques.
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John West
To implement an increased emphasis on safety, John West
has been promoted to Vice President of Safety for the Vecellio Group. John was
formerly Safety Director for Ranger Construction,
a Vecellio Group company.
Each operating unit at Ranger now has
its own Safety Director, who reports to John
in his new capacity.
At Vecellio & Grogan, the Group's
flagship company based in Beckley, WV, new Safety Director Ray
Montaigne reports to Dan Castrodale, V&G's Vice President of Equipment and
Safety.
At V&G's
White Rock Quarries in Miami,
FL, Quarry Superintendent Steve Hale oversees the
company's excellent safety program.
Throughout the Vecellio Group, our safety
departments are charged with monitoring
company operations and job sites to ensure that proper safety methods and
training procedures are used at all times.
It is a company policy that all
employees are to give full attention and support to the Safety
Department, follow all safety rules, and report any hazard to the
appropriate supervisor or safety personnel.
Vecellio Family
Foundation Awards $100,000 In Scholarships In
2002
(4th Quarter 2002)
The Vecellio Family Foundation (VFF) has announced the
recipients of its 30th annual college scholarship program, which in 2002
awarded 10 scholarships of $10,000
each -- for a total of $100,000 awarded.
The scholarships provide each
recipient with $2,500 per year, in care of the chosen college or
university, for a total of four years.
VFF is a charitable organization established by the
principals of The Vecellio Group, one of the nation's leading
contracting groups.
Scholarship recipients were selected by
independent review boards not connected with VFF,
the Vecellio Group or any of its companies.
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Katie Bell
Two of the awards were given through the Employee
Scholarship Program for dependents of Vecellio Group employees. These
recipients were:
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Mary Kathleen Bell, daughter of Johnson Bell, a superintendent for Vecellio &
Grogan.
Mary is a graduate of Greenbrier East High School in West
Virginia. She plans to attend a college or university in the Mid-Atlantic
region and major in speech pathology.
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Charlie Jose
Ferrer
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Charlie Jose Ferrer, son of Jose Ferrer, a truck driver for our Miami
asphalt plant.
Charlie, a graduate of Barbara Goleman Senior High School
in Miami, expects to attend Florida International University and major in
computer engineering.Scholarships were also presented to eight other
individuals, all from high schools in West Virginia, where Vecellio & Grogan
has operated for more than 60 years.
Scholarships were also presented to eight other
individuals, all from high schools in West Virginia, where Vecellio & Grogan
has operated for more than 60 years.
Jeffrey M. Richmond of Beaver, representing Shady Spring
High School, has been selected to receive a Leo A. Vecellio, Sr. Memorial
Scholarship, named in honor of Vecellio & Grogan's co-founder and the father
of Vecellio Group CEO Leo Vecellio, Jr.
Liberty High School graduate Heather Nicole Dillon, of
Beckley, also received a Leo A. Vecellio, Sr. Memorial Scholarship.
Representing Woodrow Wilson High School are three
scholarship winners, all from Beckley: Megan Stark, who received a Rick
Vecellio Memorial Scholarship, named to honor the late brother of Leo
Vecellio, Jr.; Emily Traube, who was granted a Leo A. Vecellio, Sr. Memorial
Scholarship; and Christopher Cooper, who received an Al Janutolo Memorial
Scholarship, named for a long-time Vecellio & Grogan employee.
From Independence High School, Ashleigh Prince of Beckley
received a Leo A. Vecellio, Sr. Memorial Scholarship.
In McDowell County, representing Mt. View High School,
Jennifer Raelynn Bailey of Welch was awarded a Dr. Dante Castrodale Memorial
Scholarship, named in honor of Leo A. Vecellio Sr.'s brother-in-law, who
served as a physician in the McDowell County area for many years.
The winner of the annual Youth Conservation award is
Mendy Jo Stover of Liberty, who received the Rick Vecellio Memorial
Conservation Scholarship.
