Willard E. “Bill” Campbell

Large Business
Willard E. “Bill” Campbell, Founder & CEO

Hoss’s Steak and Sea House
Corporate Office, 170 Patchway Road, Duncansville, PA 16635
(814) 695-7600
www.hoss.com

Education: Hollidaysburg high school graduate. Experience in all facets of operating a business as a result of his background in the ownership and operation of Weyant and Campbell Builders since 1967, now known as W. E. Campbell Builders Inc. His diverse background has helped Hoss’s expand its operations to include its own central processing and distribution facility (Hoss’s Fresh Xpress), its own in-house advertising agency (Image Advertising), a retail food store (Hoss’s Fresh Food Market), and its own construction company (Hoss’s Building Services).

Job responsibility: In a word, “Mentor.” Campbell elaborated, “My stepson is president and two other men and two women are involved with the day-to-day duties. I consult and mentor.”

Guiding philosophy: “The Golden Rule. Can’t improve on it.”

First job: Digging ditch by hand at the Samuel Ray Car Shop for freight trains in Hollidaysburg.

Biggest recent accomplishment: “Our biggest accomplishment happens every day, and it is our mission statement: Hoss-pitality is our sincere dedication to making everybody feel welcome and want to return,” Campbell said without hesitation. He believes in satisfying this mission daily, without fail.

Community involvement:
• Owner and president of Bedford Ford, Lincoln-Mercury Inc., Bedford Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Inc., and the Duncansville and Annville Antique Depots
• Partner in Team Motors Inc., an automobile dealership with locations in Johnstown and Huntingdon
• Business interests including W.E. Campbell Builders Inc., a regional commercial and residential construction company, and Blairco Realty Inc., a real estate development company
• Hoss’s support of charities, including the Multiple Sclerosis Society, American Red Cross, Junior Achievement, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, FFA, 4-H, and the Pennsylvania Bowling Association
• Hoss’s sponsorship of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Live and the nationally-sanctioned Tour de ‘Toona bicycle race
• Actively supports the 4-H and FFA – attends livestock sales in every community served by Hoss’s during the fair season; and attends the Sale of Champions at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show. Most animals purchased from 4-H and FFA members are donated back to their scholarship programs, food banks, and many other organizations
• Established programs wherein Hoss’s awards numerous scholarships to college students studying various restaurant-related curriculums. Hoss’s also provides tuition assistance to Hoss’s employees and their family members
• Encourages employee involvement in civic activities and sponsorship of community events
• Member, Masons, the Valley of Altoona Scottish Rite Chapter, the Jaffa Temple Shriners, and the Blair County Home Builders Association
• Member, board of trustees, Juniata College in Huntingdon
• Past member of board of trustees, St. Francis College in Loretto from March 1991 to March 2003

Charity of choice: The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Blair County.

Awards:
• Blair County Chamber’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for Business Advocacy, awarded June 5, 2006
• Pennsylvania Beef Backer – Chain Restaurant Award for going the extra mile in menuing and marketing beef
• Finalist, 2005 Restaurant Neighbor Award, Pennsylvania Restaurant Association

Tammie Aaron-Barrada

Small Business
Tammie Aaron-Barrada, president & CEO

Aaron Barrada Inc., PO Box 21, Hunker, PA 15639
(724) 696-4332, www.pottiestickers.com

Education: A graduate of Westmoreland County Community College in 1983, Aaron-Barrada taught at the college’s Business Development Center and owned her own advertising agency. She became an international trainer for Deloitt & Touche, a large CPA firm, and traveled to various Soviet countries setting up libraries to benefit women, and all budding entrepreneurs.

Job responsibility: “First, I’m always the mom,” she said. “I wear many different hats, but marketing comes naturally to me. We’re working to promote National Toilet Training Awareness, we’re doing a TV commercial, and I’m starting my own talk show, The Mom Show, out of 1530 WCKY in Cincinnati, featuring the best picks in baby and children’s products every Saturday.”

First job: When she was five years old, she started picking strawberries and beans for a neighbor, making 25 cents a basket, until the 6th grade, when she had met her goal – to make enough to buy a 9-inch black-and-white TV.

Inspiration: Her products come imprinted with GFW, standing for God, Family, Work. She started her company, a toilet training reward system for toddlers, after her husband died from cancer. There was no insurance and she knew she had to “do something to make a living and raise my two toddlers.” She got a patent for Pottie Stickers, wrote a business plan, and Aaron Barrada Inc. was born.

Mentors: “A very smart person will surround themselves with brilliant people in order to make them look more intelligent than they are,” she said. In that spirit, she names her board of directors as her mentors.

Biggest recent accomplishment: “Definitely, The Donald,” she said, referring to the Best New Product at the American Business Awards judged by Donald Trump.
She is also pleased to begin her new talk show, The Mom Show, which can be heard in a large portion of the mid-west and on the Internet.

Community Involvement:
• Aaron Barrada Inc. donates a portion of every sale to cancer research
• Board member, The 2nd Annual, Pittsburgh’s Largest Pajama Party to benefit the Cancer Society
• A toddler room volunteer and soccer coach
• Certified toilet-training seminar presenter for Babies R Us and non-profit childcare organizations.

Charity of choice: The Magee Women’s Hospital for Cancer Research, Pittsburgh

Awards & commendations: Pottie Stickers has won more than a dozen awards in 2005 and 2006. Here is a sampling:
• Best New Product at the American Business Awards judged by Donald Trump
• Best Children’s Product by ORCA
• The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
• The iParenting HOT Media Award
• Three international IAPHC awards
• Entrepreneur of the Month, eMagnify in Feb. 2005
• Top 100 People and Young & Upcoming Award from Pennsylvania Business Central

JoAnne Boyle

Non-Profit
JoAnne Boyle, Ph.D., President

Seton Hill University
Seton Hill Drive, Greensburg 15601
(724) 838-4211,
www.setonhill.edu

Education: B.A. in English and history from Seton Hill College, graduating with honors; M.A. as an English teacher from Harvard University; Ph.D. in English from the University of Pittsburgh.

Job responsibility: She describes this as two-fold: 1. Being a day-to-day decision-maker, “bring ready to handle the next big thing that comes along,” and 2. “Keeping a focus on where the organization is going, in order to stay vibrant and thrive in a very competitive environment.”

First job: Boyle grew up in Charleston, W.V., where she worked from age 10 as a page in the boys and girls department of Kanawha County Public Library. “I loved it,” she said. “I got the best education there – that follows me to this day.”

Mentors: “My first and strongest mentor was Ms. Wilma Brown, my hometown librarian.” She noted that mentors have always entered her life at pivotal points, including colleagues at Seton Hill: Sister Mary Murphy, “an inspiration;” Sister Mary Schmidt, “my model as a teacher;” Dr. Lynn Conroy, “who inspired me to finish my dissertation;” and Eileen Terrell, past president and predecessor, about whom she commented, “She’s a business woman who brought business practices to the presidency.”

Biggest recent accomplishments: The planned 73,000-square-foot University Center for the Arts will be located along Harrison Avenue, the Greensburg street leading to the restored historic train station. “The plan for our building has become the center of public and private restoration for the city,” she said. This poorly-used area of Greensburg is being transformed into a café/cultural/educational hub – and bring, Seton Hill’s theatre and music programs into the heart of downtown. “It’s for more than Seton Hill. It makes a difference in our community. Greensburg is on its way to becoming a college town,” she said.

She also noted the decision to become a co-ed university. “We were a small women’s college and our core student group was dwindling. Should we merge or close? Neither option was acceptable. We believed in the quality of education we were delivering, so why can’t we do that for young men as well?”

Seton Hill became a university in 2002, offering graduate-level work for adult learners. The student population is now about 50/50 male and female, growing from about 400 to nearly 2,000 learners. The facilites have expanded: two new dorms, a field house, health and fitness center, and three playing fields, including 18 male sports progams. She estimates that the university has raised about $50 million for this expansion thus far.

Community involvement:
• Past chair, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
• Member, board of directors, Council for Independent Colleges
• Member, Bishops Advisory Committee of the National Catholic Jewish Relations Secretariat and the Council of Presidents of the U.S. Division of the World Conference on Religion and Peace
• Past chair, Association for Independent Colleges and Universities in Pennsylvania
• Honor Board of Directors, WQED Public Broadcasting
• Has served as Merit Selection Panelist, Office of United States Attorney and for the U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District Court for Western Pennsylvania
• Former chair, Pennsylvania Chapter, International Women’s Forum
• Board member, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
• Board member, Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, The Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland County, The Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, and Women’s College Coalition

Charity of choice: The new Fine Arts Center, because “it symbolizes the university as an economic driver.”

Awards & commendations:
• Appointed by the Speaker of the House to the Pennsylvania Task Force on Higher Education Funding
• Member, the Timkin Corporation Scholarship Selection Committee
• 1999, Distinguished Ethics speaker at Duquesne University
• 1999, presenter, the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing, China
• Pennsylvania Professor of the Year, Council for the Advancement and Support of Higher Education; finalist, National Professor of the Year
• Medallion of Distinction, University of Pittsburgh
• Recognized by Nanjing University, China, for her contributions to international education
• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award from the Sisters of Charity
• The Juliette Gordon Low Woman of Distinction Award, Westmoreland Girl Scout Council
• Tribute to Women Award, YWCA of Pittsburgh

The Grand Prize
Winners in each category will receive a plaque and Pennsylvania Business Central will donate $500 to the charity of their choice for a toal of $2,000 in donations.

Pennsylvania Business Central is pleased to make four $500 donations in the names of our four 2006 Entrepreneur award winners.