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Margie Price, MAS,
and Joel Schaffer, MAS,
NamedThe 2017 PPAI
Hall Of Fame Inductees
PPAI has named Margie
Price, MAS, president
of St. Louis-based
distributor Premiums
Plus, Inc. (UPIC:
PREMPLUS), and Joel
Schaffer, MAS, president
of Soundline, LLC
(UPIC: 1SOUNDLN) in
Randolph, New Jersey,
as the 2017 Hall of Fame inductees. The
announcement was made in August.
Since 1977, the PPAI Hall of Fame has
been honoring leaders in the promotional
products industry who have had an impact
on the industry and their communities. The
promotional products industry has grown
and prospered because of the creative spark
and dedication of many, but the Hall of Fame
inductees’ selfless efforts and devotion to the
industry are monumental.
A 26-year industry veteran, Price has
a long history of involvement with PPAI
and other industry organizations. She has
twice served on the Association’s board—
once as the Regional Association Council
(RAC) delegate in 2001-2003, and again
as a director from 2005 to 2009—and on a
number of PPAI committees. She currently
serves on the PPAI Government Relations
Action Council and is a five-time Legislative
Education & Action Day (L.E.A.D.) attendee.
She served
as chair of the
Promotional Products
Education Foundation
(PPEF) in 2004
and advocated
for the formation
of the first PPAI
Women’s Leadership
Conference,
volunteered on the Women’s Leadership
Conference Work Group and worked
collaboratively in the development of the
Women’s Leadership Conference Grant
program that was introduced in 2012. Active
at the regional level, Price served on the
Promotional Products Association of the
Midwest (PPAM) board from 1995 to 2004 and
held the office of PPAM president from 1997
to 1998.
In 2011, she was named the PPAI Woman
of Achievement, and in 2012 was honored with
the PPAI Distinguished Service Award and the
PPAI H. Ted Olson Humanitarian Award.
Price says, “I don’t know any words that will
express how deeply moved I am to receive this
incredible honor so I will simply say thank you
and I promise I will try to be the kind of person
who deserves to be in PPAI’s Hall of Fame.
Thank you!”
Schaffer has worked in the promotional
products industry for 47 years for a number of
companies including Jostens and Leathersmith
of London. In 1986, he started his own
business publishing an audio magazine for
the promotional products industry which
ultimately became Soundline in 1991. He
served on the PPAI board from 2004 to 2008
and participated in a number of Association
committees, taskforces and work groups, most
recently the Certification Committee from 2014
to 2015.
In 1976, as a member of the Association
of Metropolitan Advertising Specialty Suppliers’
(AMASS) board, Schaffer served on the
merger committee that brought it together
with the Specialty Advertising Association of
Greater New York (SAAGNY). He served on the
SAAGNY board from 1992 to 2000, including
a term as its president, and as a SAAGNY
Foundation trustee from 1995 to 2007.
In 2002, SAAGNY inducted Schaffer into
its Hall of Fame and in 2005, into the SAAGNY
Foundation Hall of Fame. ASI presented
Schaffer with its Marvin Spike Professional
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and
PPAI recognized his accomplishments with the
Distinguished Service Award in 2011.
“When you enjoy the work you do for
others and then get recognized for it, that’s
fulfillment,” says Schaffer. “I am so very proud
and thankful to join so many marvelous people
who are in the Hall of Fame. It is even better
when the award is pre-posthumous.”
Induction into the PPAI Hall of Fame reflects
Price’s and Schaffer’s legacies and contributions
to the promotional products industry and their
communities. Their induction ceremony will
take place during the Chairman’s Leadership
Dinner on January 9, 2017, during The PPAI
Expo in Las Vegas. Tickets to the event can be
purchased online during show registration.
Schaffer, MAS
Margie Price, MAS
some of the issues they’re having, and make contacts so that we
can respond and collaborate, and push the ball forward.”
Adam Taylor, vice president of development at Essent Corporation,
was one of a number of attendees who joined both NALC and the Tech
Summit. He says, “Tech Summit brings suppliers, distributors and service
providers together, and it’s a way for me to get my finger on the pulse as
far as how things like EDI [Electronic Data Interchange] are progressing,
because it is a critical factor in the industry. Everyone’s backing it. We
had a number of sessions this week on EDI, making the supply chain
faster and more optimized. Everyone’s on board with it. That’s what I
like to see, that we’re moving that ball forward. These initiatives have
been going on for so long, I’m excited to see us get this thing rolling.”
The dates for the 2017 Tech Summit are August
16-17, following NALC in North Texas.
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