BY PERRY BROTHERS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
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Past winners
1997: AT&T Telephone Pioneers for flood relief and other goodwill activities.
1996: Steve Campbell, KZF Architects, for involvement with Lighthouse Youth Services.
1995: Dave Brown, LensCrafters, for Give the Gift of Sight campaign. 1994: Valerie Newell, Scudder, Stevens & Clark, for involvement with local bonds.
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The president of Hershey Foods Corp. will help the chamber of commerce deliver a sweet reward to a Cincinnati businessman.
Bob Coughlin, president of Paycor Inc., will receive this year's Outstanding Community Service Award from the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce for his involvement with the Leukemia Society's Southwest Ohio chapter and other area philanthropic ventures.
"A lot of folks do things to get more business," said Pat Sheeran, director of the chamber's Branch Office, "but he (Mr. Coughlin) actually went the opposite way. He didn't do it to get more business, but he used his professional expertise to help the Leukemia Society."
Joseph P. Viviano, president of Hershey, will be the keynote speaker at the chamber's 1998 Branch Office Annual Business Luncheon, scheduled for May 7.
Mr. Coughlin, founder of the payroll service provider, worked with software developers at Paycor to create a database to track donations. The program saved the Leukemia Society $50,000, and it is now offered to other society chapters nationwide.
Before the program was created, most chapters were manually recording more than $1 million a year in donations for the society fund drive, Team in Training.
Mr. Coughlin has made it company policy to support charities that Paycor employees get involved with, including Miami University's Teens for Literacy program, St. Rita's School for the Deaf, Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled and Family Services of Greater Cincinnati.
The company is organizing the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon to raise money for designated charities. The first-ever marathon is scheduled for May 9, 1999.
Mr. Sheeran said the Branch Office chose Mr. Viviano to speak at the event because the Xavier University graduate has ties to the community and a record of philanthropy.
"We didn't want a name for the name's sake," Mr. Sheeran said. "We wanted a good fit."
The luncheon will be May 7 at the Cincinnati Marriott in Sharonville. Tickets are $25 each. Registration starts at 11:30 a.m. Call 891-8833 for information.
