PRIDE Honors Four Leaders Aug. 20

PRIDE of St. Louis, Inc., the region’s construction labor-management organization, will honor legacies of building, philanthropy and construction teamwork at its second annual awards luncheon. On Aug. 20, 2009, PRIDE will salute men for their roles in advancing PRIDE’s mission to make St. Louis the best place to build at a luncheon at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand  Suites Hotel in downtown St. Louis.

The honorees are:

• The  late I.E. Millstone, visionary, philanthropist and founder of Millstone Construction, now Millstone-Bangert, Inc.   Millstone will be honored with the Industry Impact Award.
• John Mulligan, owner and  founder Mulligan Construction, Inc. Mulligan will receive the Al Fleischer Management Award named for the late Alfred J. Fleischer, who helped co-found PRIDE and was its first management co-chair.
• Rick Post, construction, transmission  and specialty contractor manager, Prairie State Generating Company, LLC. Post will be honored with the Joe Rinke Owner Award. The award is named for Joseph W. Rinke, PRIDE’s first owner co-chair.
• Joseph J. Hunt, general president, International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers.       Hunt will be honored with the Dick Mantia Labor Award. The award is named for Dick Mantia, who co-founded      PRIDE and remains board member emeritus of the organization.

“In their own unique way, each of these men has advanced economic development through construction teamwork,” said Jim LaMantia, executive director of PRIDE. “They have been dedicated to the highest quality, most productive and safest construction practices.”

PRIDE, founded in 1972, is an acronym for Productivity and Responsibility Increase Development  Employment. For more than 35 years, PRIDE has worked to maintain harmony and build cooperation among St. Louis area AFL-CIO construction craft workers, contractors, construction buyers, architects, engineers and suppliers.

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