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Key Associate Members Honored for Ongoing NAHB Support
Several key associate members were honored for their ongoing support and continued contributions to NAHB at the local, state and national levels during the associate members' recent annual awards ceremony at the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla.
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Robin Newhouse |
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Clyde Anderson |
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Sonny Antonio |
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Marilyn Kneebone |
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Ken Krajsa |
Five associates were honored. They include:
2005 NAHB Associate of the Year — Robin Newhouse Robin Newhouse, CGA, CGB, of Dominion Virginia Power of Fredericksburg, Va., was named the 2005 NAHB Associate of the Year.
Newhouse is on the board of three Virginia builders associations — the Fredericksburg Area Builders Association, the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association and the Blue Ridge Home Builders Association. She has served as chair on numerous committees and has been an active participant in many others.
At the state level, she has served as the associate vice president for the Home Builders Association of Virginia for five consecutive years, 1999-2004. As a grassroots action coordinator for her state’s legislative committee, Newhouse was instrumental in the development of their congressional contacts program.
Newhouse is also an NAHB life director, one of only seven from her area.
Previously, Newhouse was inducted into NAHB’s 2002 Society of Honored Associates, received several BUILD-PAC Spike awards, earned several associate of the month honors from her local associations and a President’s Award in 1998 and was named the 1996 Associate of the Year by the Fredericksburg association.
She is a member of the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce, Triad Plus, Women in Engineering and Rotary. She is also involved with the American Cancer Society and the Leukemia Foundation.
NAHB Society of Honored Associates
The associate members inducted into the NAHB Society of Honored Associates were:
- Clyde Anderson, CGA, CGB, CMB, CAPS, of BMC West, Lewisville, Texas
- Sonny Antonio, of Sunshine Design LLC, Suisun City, Calif.
- Marilyn Kneebone, of Community by Design, Madison, Wisc.
- Ken Krajsa, of State Bank & Trust, Fargo, N.D.
Newhouse was also inducted into this group.
2005 Bill Polly/BUILD-PAC Recipient — Ken Krajsa
Ken Krajsa was also presented with the sixth annual Bill Polley Award in recognition of his more than 20-year commitment to the building industry and his work at the local level with the Home Builders Association of Fargo-Moorhead, at the state level with the North Dakota Builders Association of Builders and with NAHB.
At the local level, Krajsa served on the retention committee from 1994-2005. He also served on the flood task force, homeownership task force and the public issues candidates' forums.
Krajsa has been a member of his state association’s board of directors for more than 10 years, has been an associate national director since 2001 and a BUILD-PAC contributor since 1999.
Krajsa was the Associate of the Year of North Dakota in 1994 and 2004 and was his local association’s top Spike in 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2001.
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