2017 Cooperative Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony

Date: 
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Four outstanding cooperative leaders will receive the cooperative community's highest honor on May 3, 2017, when they are inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
 
The inductees are Rita L. Haynes, CEO emeritus of Faith Community United Credit Union, John D. Johnson, retired president and CEO of CHS Inc.; Richard Larochelle, retired senior vice president of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation; and John & Carol Zippert, cooperative activists with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives. Read more about them here. 
 
These cooperative leaders will be recognized at the annual Cooperative Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on the evening of May 3, 2017. In conjunction with the ceremony, a public forum on cooperative development and leadership will be held in the afternoon.
 
"Induction into the Cooperative Hall of Fame is reserved for those who have made genuinely heroic contributions to the cooperative community. The 2017 inductees join a host of extraordinary Hall of Fame members who have contributed significantly to the advancement of the cooperative movement," said Gasper Kovach, Jr., board chair of the Cooperative Development Foundation, which administers the Hall of Fame.
 
More info here.