The Q
The Q, previously known as our Annual Membership Meeting, brings together professional and community leaders from all over the region to celebrate Chamber membership.
In addition to a BBQ dinner, we will present the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Lyons National Bank. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient is Laurie O'Shaughnessy.
Join us at this year's Q: Wednesday June 28, 2023 at Woodcliff Hotel. Learn more & register here.




Laurie O’Shaughnessy, retired Executive Director of the Canandaigua YMCA, is the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. The award recognizes her tremendous contributions to the Ontario County community.
O’Shaughnessy is the retired Executive Director for the Canandaigua YMCA and has also volunteered for Kiwanis, was a founding committee member of the Arts in the Garden for Sonnenberg Gardens, and a past board member for the Ontario County Chamber of Commerce. She continues to volunteer for the Sands Family YMCA, Community Campaign Committee; Neighbor to Neighbor; Professional Women of the Finger Lakes; ATHENA Leadership Awards; Habitat for Humanity of Greater Rochester, Women Build, Co-Chair; Thompson Guild; NYS YMCA Foundation and United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes, Campaign Ambassador. She receives this award in appreciation of her unwavering commitment, exceptional accomplishments, and dedication to the youth and adults of Canandaigua and Ontario County.
Lifetime Achievement Recipients


2022: Jeff Friend


2020: Susanne Kennedy*


2019: Richard McGavern


2018: John A. "Jack" Schuppenhauer


2017: Byron Delavan*


2016: Jack Moran


2015: Benedict Gullo


2014: Ellie Fralick


2013: Richard Sands


2012: Linda Farchione Hawks


2011: Ralph Calabrese


2010: Randall Farnsworth


2009: Robert G. Sheridan


2008: William B. Rayburn*


2007: Earl Coleates*


2006: Ellen Polimeni


2005: Jane Stickler*


2004: Clifford E. "Bob" Murphy, Jr.


2003: Fred W. Sarkis


2002: Richard Hawks, Jr.


2001: Richard W. Appel


2000: Caroline A. Delavan


1999: Paul Kellogg


1998: Judge Joseph Cribb*


1997: Frieda O'Hanlon


1996: George W. Hamlin IV


1995: James Holden*


1994: Buddy Rockmaker*


1993: Tarry Shipley


1992: Joseph Delforte*


1991: James Doran*


1990: Bernard Hagerman*


1989: Robert Craugh*


1988: Marvin A. Rapp*


1987: Richard E. Ogden*


1986: George M. Ewing, Sr.*


1985: Alton U. Farnsworth*


1984: Ella Dunham*


1983: Bruce M. Kennedy


1982: Marvin L. Sands*


1981: Anthony M. Symigs*


1980: William J. Mitchell*


1979: Louis M. Kiesewetter*


1978: James F. Kellogg*


1977: Rose Comella*


1976: Richard H Hawks, Sr.*


1975: Isobel S. Sainsbury*


1974: George G. Hayes*


1973: Arthur S. Hamlin*


1972: Lester A. Boyce*


1971: T. Hamilton Kennedy*


1970: Frank A. Baker*


1969: Herbert J. Ellis*


1968: Robert A. Hoekelman


1967: Collins W. Carpenter*


1966: Albert A. Moore*


1965: Walter C. Benham*


1964: Arthur R. Munson*


1963: Burrall S. Case*


1962: Howard J. Samuels*


1961: William W. Muar*

