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.
2022 The Q
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*
