Update: Ticket order deadline Thursday, March 20
Bob and Patsy Harbicht have been named Citizens of the Year for 2014-15 by the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce. Individually and together the couple has devoted a lifetime of volunteer service to the community of Arcadia through scouting, schools, church and myriad organizations such as The Rotary Club, Assitance League and the Chamber.
Patsy & Bob Harbicht
The Harbichts will succeed Jim and Shelly Romo at the 2014 Board of Directors Installation Dinner to be held on March 27 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel on Huntington Drive. The annual dinner event, featuring the induction of the new Chamber officers, including President-elect Denise Weaver of Weaver & Associates Insurance, a tribute to outgoing Chamber President Arlynn Robinson, and presentations by Chamber and City leaders and political dignitaries, is considered one of Arcadia’s premier events. In addition, Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary will receive the Corporate Community Contributor Award. For information, tickets, and ads/sponsorships, see the information below or call the Chamber office at 626-447-2159. Or order tickets online here ($60 for members; $70 for non-members).
Other recent Citizens of the Year include Alice Wang, Sho Tay, Vince Foley, current City Councilmen Gary Kovacic and Mickey and Lee Segal, and Gail Jensen.
Early on a Monday morning last September, Bob Harbicht was spotted putting table cloths on dozens of tables at the Arboretum being set up for that evening’s Taste of Arcadia, which he calls “Arcadia’s signature event.” It was emblematic of his attitude even while leading the City as Mayor four times and on a record-setting 20 years on the City Council, which ends in April. “We’re pretty good at being Indians as well as chiefs,” he says. Bob has also been Chairman of the Lucky Baldwin District of the Boy Scouts of America, and received the Boy Scouts Silver Beaver Award. His other volunteer leadership roles have included President of the Arcadia Rotary Club and Arcadia High School Drill Team Booster Club, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, Arcadia Red Cross, Arcadia Welfare & Thrift, and the Arcadia Tournament of Roses Association. And that’s in addition to his years as AYSO soccer coach and referee. When they aren’t traveling and bicycling the world and caring for their children and grandchildren, the Harbichts have a hard time keeping up with each other as Patsy also has a full slate of volunteer responsibilities. In addition to serving on the PTA from Highland Oaks Elementary, Foothills Middle School and Arcadia High School and as a leader in the Girl Scouts, she has also been President of: Visiting Nurses Association of Methodist Hospital; Children’s Home Society of Arcadia; Arcadia Partners in Rotary; and Monrovia Guild of Children’s Hospital. Her decades of volunteering have also included participation in the Assistance League of Arcadia and more than 30 years at the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
The Arcadia Chamber is offering various options for tickets, reserved tables, and advertiser-sponsors:
Keystone Club Sponsor: $2,500
VIP Table of 10
Logo on all publicity online and in print
Signage at event
Any available full page ad in program; plus listing
Gold Sponsor: $1,000
Reserved table of 10
Any available full-page ad in program; plus listing
Silver Sponsor: $799
Reserved table seating for 6
Listing in program
Bronze Sponsor: $550
Reserved table seating for 2
Full page ad in program; plus listing
Congratulatory Program Ads
Back cover (8.5” tall x 5.5” wide): $300
Inside covers (8.5” tall x 5.5” wide) : $250
Full page inside (8.5” tall x 5.5” wide): $200
Half-page (5.5” tall x 4.25” wide): $125
Citizen of the Year Recipients 1969-2014 2014 Bob & Patsy Harbicht 2013 Jim & Shelly Romo 2012 Alice Wang 2011 Sho Tay 2010 Vince Foley 2009 Lee & Mickey Segal 2008 Gail Jensen 2007 Gary Kovacic 2006 Eva Chinn 2005 Floretta Lauber 2004 James Helms, Jim & Margaret Barrows 2003 Don Fandry 2002 Charles & Ruth Gilb 2001 Chris McClain 2000 Barbara Yack 1999 Eileen Hubbard 1998 Carmen Thibault 1997 Peter Ulrich 1996 Joan Cline 1995 Micky Harbur 1994 Mary Hansen & Pat Wallace 1993 Anna Roginson-Busse 1992 Monty Lindsey 1991 Mary Young 1990 Dr. Dennis Lojeski & Christopher McGuire 1989 Barbara Saelid & Jean Cope 1988 Carol Papay 1987 Marilyn Bryant 1986 Don Pellegrino & Herb Goddard 1985 June Fee & Dottie Burnett 1984 Ruth Gilb & James Parker 1983 Catherine Mundy & Lyle Cunningham 1982 Marguerite Towsley & Dr. Robert Bell 1981 Marilyn Daleo 1980 John Joseph & Marilyn Morrison 1979 James Helms & Kelvin Mason 1978 Carol Libby & Roy Long 1977 Jean Livingston & Charles Gilb 1976 Paul Johenk 1975 Lt. Neal Johnson 1974 Jean Hoard & Dr. Alton Scott 1973 Phillis Parker 1972 James Harvey 1971 Edna B. Lenz 1970 Elton Phillips 1969 Jesse Balser, Conrad Reibold, Dale Turner