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Bloomfield Chamber to Honor Harrison
Posted 5/17/2005
University President Walter Harrison will receive the Oliver Filley Award from the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce at its Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 18.
President Harrison will be honored as “an outstanding businessperson and community leader who has advanced the desirability of Bloomfield as a community in which to live, work and manage a business,” according to a news release from the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce.
The Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony will mark the 40th anniversary of the Bloomfield Chamber. The event will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Wintonbury Golf Course, 206 Terry Plains Road, Bloomfield.
The award that will be presented to Harrison is named for Capt. Oliver Filley, a business and community leader in 19th century Bloomfield. Filley helped to run his family's farm as a child, and later started a successful tinware business in Wintonbury, the township we now call Bloomfield. He joined the Home Guard during the War of 1812, where he was named a captain.
Founded in 1965 as an associate member of the MetroHartford Chamber of Commerce, the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce is a private, not-for-profit volunteer organization with more than 200 members. The Chamber actively supports business and community efforts so that Bloomfield continues to be an economically vibrant, attractive place in which to live and do business.
For more information, contact Vera Smith-Winfree, executive director of the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce, at 242.3710.
President Harrison will be honored as “an outstanding businessperson and community leader who has advanced the desirability of Bloomfield as a community in which to live, work and manage a business,” according to a news release from the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce.
The Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony will mark the 40th anniversary of the Bloomfield Chamber. The event will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Wintonbury Golf Course, 206 Terry Plains Road, Bloomfield.
The award that will be presented to Harrison is named for Capt. Oliver Filley, a business and community leader in 19th century Bloomfield. Filley helped to run his family's farm as a child, and later started a successful tinware business in Wintonbury, the township we now call Bloomfield. He joined the Home Guard during the War of 1812, where he was named a captain.
Founded in 1965 as an associate member of the MetroHartford Chamber of Commerce, the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce is a private, not-for-profit volunteer organization with more than 200 members. The Chamber actively supports business and community efforts so that Bloomfield continues to be an economically vibrant, attractive place in which to live and do business.
For more information, contact Vera Smith-Winfree, executive director of the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce, at 242.3710.
