Biomet Completes United Way Fundraising EffortsBiomet recently completed its fundraising efforts as a United Way Pacesetter.
The company held a "coin dollar war" and that combined with pledge cards filled out by employees led the Warsaw-based orthopedic company to raise $184,000.
A dunk tank competition also was held.
The company is going to contribute 50 cents on every dollar raised by its employees which will kick the total up to $276,000.That contribution is a 27-percent increase from the company's contribution last year.
Bill Hartman, director of the Extremities/Bone Cement Team, also served as the leader for Biomet's pacesetter campaign.
His team won the dollar-coin war and celebrated Tuesday afternoon with a pizza party.
Members of the winning team are Ben Heilman, Bryce Isch, Nick Katrana, Tom Vanessa, Nate Winslow, Craig Allebach, Nathan Averill, Bill Hartman, Ben Joseph, Kristen Martin, Marcus Tholen, Jacob Wilson, Leanne Bundenthal, John McDaniel, Luke Alvey and Robert Taylor.
On the operations side, a competion also was held with the shipping, bracing and loaner departments winning.
The warehouse director is Carl Smith while the warehouse manager is Bob Sternberg.
Members of the loaners group with supervisor Steve Allen are: Janet Rex, Teresa Spangle, Patricia Redman, Susan Biggs, Brenda Engle, Karen Maurer, Scott Bianchini, Jamie Couture, Patricia Hedington, Ryan Aranda, Tina Yoder, Kerri Ousley, Dedra Patrick, Timothy Metzger, Cindy Holler, Sharon Phend, Lisa Emmons, Ronald Dunn, Dustin Cordill, Kathy Ockomon, Michael Griffith, John Loudermilk, Angela Wadkins, Marcella Lantz, Cynthia Leon.
The shipping department, with supervisors Lonnie Clay and Jr. Brito are Denise Islas, Debra Bell, Jean Fisher, Gail Lanids, Linda Heighway, James Kizer, Sheri Cretcher, Richard Monesmith, Lena Mueller, Joni Owens, Amy D. Murphy, Debra Ray, Lloyd Rhoades, Shawn Carpenter, Gintry Graham, Richard Brown, Diana Kramer, Janet Elliott, James Taylor, Devon Woodward, Robin Hopkins, Jeremy Sherman, Matthew Burkett, Mark Gagnon, Macy Jagger, Talon Stump, Patrick McCormick, Andrew Wuthrich and Elizabeth Rice.
The bracing department with supervisor Craig Thomas consists of James S. Adams, Susan Hatala, Jodi Hackney, Nicholas Stutzman, Kelly Hewitt, Gretchen Webb, Jonahthon Carnes, Nicole Bice, Stephen Cumberland, Caleb Stoffel, Joshua Keel, John Allen, Keith Ferrolino, Richie Vinning, Tyler Lozier, Joshua Darling, Kristin Dilley, Derrick Brown, David Oaks and Andrew Kuhn.
Stories on United Way Pacesetters will appear in the Times-Union as events occur.
