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Past Meets Present

 

From August 15, 2012 Sun Gazette

 

To Frank B. Lundy III and his sister, Anne, it was just some old uniform she could cut the arms out of to make it into a Halloween costume. When he was 10 years old, Lundy found the jersey in the closet of his grandfather, Richard H. Lundy, an original Little League team sponsor. The jersey belonged to Frank B. Lundy II, who wore it at the first Little League Baseball game in 1939.
Frank II was not part of the team because he was too young and his uniform was an extra that his father purchased for his children.
“I was 6 years old,” Frank II said.
That historic game, won by Lundy Lumber, started a youth sports program that now is enjoyed all over the world. It was once of only
twice that Frank II wore the uniform. The other time he wore it was to get his picture taken. Other than that, it sat in various closets through the decades.
“It was preserved by the grace of God,” Frank III said.
Lundy Construction, formed from a partnership following Lundy Lumber, now is the oldest Little League sponsor still in operation, Frank III said. Carl E. Stotz contacted Frank III’s grandfather, Richard H. Lundy, with an idea that he had about getting together some children to play sandlot baseball and providing them with a jersey and a hat. Every child would be able to play in every game.
“There’s nothing worse than a kid on a team who doesn’t get to play,” Frank III said Monday.
Richard told Stotz to get some more sponsors involved and he would sponsor a team.
The public will get a chance to see the uniform at tonight’s parade, which steps off at 6 p.m. at the intersection of Susquehanna and West Fourth streets. Frank III’s cousin, Charlie, will wear it.
Following the parade, Frank III said he will have the uniform restored to fix damage from the Halloween costume and time, then use it for the company’s 80th year celebrations next year.
He also will sign an agreement to loan the uniform to the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum every year in August so that people can see it during the World Series. At the end of August, it will return to Lundy Lumber to be displayed.

The Lundy Legacy: 80 Years Later

 

From the March 13, 2013 edition of the Business Magazine

by Karen Torres

The Business Magazine’s “Risking It All” section highlights the entrepreneurs
who made sacrifices to build their businesses in our region. This month,
we met with Frank Lundy III, chief executive officer of Lundy Construction
Company in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to talk about the history and success
of this 80-year-old family owned business.
Soon after Maurice Lundy left his home in Slido, Ireland as a stowaway bound
for the United States, he found himself in a flourishing career in the lumber industry
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. His son Frank B. Lundy and grandson Richard H.
Lundy would eventually follow in his footsteps, starting their own business, Lundy
Lumber Company.
With the success of lumber company firmly intact, Richard and family member John
Lundy decided to partner with E.M. “Dick” Jonas to focus on the commercial side
of the business, forming Lundy Construction Company in 1933.
It was a huge risk during one of the worst years of the Great Depression, but one
that would become the Lundy legacy.
According to CEO Frank Lundy III, these entrepreneurs not only had to overcome
fear, but the conventional wisdom of the time — to steer away from investing in
a new venture, coupled with the challenges of procuring building materials and
securing credit for construction during a fragile and weak economic time.
“But, not being scared of hard work, believing in one’s self to accomplish personal
goals and the ability to move against conventional wisdom prevailed,” says Lundy,
“and we are here 80 years later to prove that challenges can be identified, met
and overcome.”
Proudly pointing to such projects as the east wing of Divine Providence Hospital
and the original Roosevelt School — built during World War II and when the basic
building materials of concrete and steel were in short supply — Lundy Construction
Company is truly a model of success. The company is today widely considered one
of the most recognized contractors for industrial and commercial construction,
remodeling and renovations in central Pennsylvania — a credit to its wide range of
services and core competencies.
“We can design, estimate and deliver sophisticated light and high-tech
manufacturing facilities with our staff, procedures and our highly skilled, dedicated
and proven field personnel,” explains Lundy. “We are able to provide design
construction services to most industrial, institutional, health-care and commercial
customers that could locate or expand in our geographical area.”
Lundy, for one, saw a new future in the area when he drove up from Philadelphia
one day to assist his father with some business issues and noticed a convoy of what
appeared to be drilling pipe loads on tractor-trailers heading toward Williamsport
— at the beginning of the Marcellus Shale boom.
“I learned a long time ago that if you want to build, you have to have someone
to build for,” he says. “So, when you see others investing in an area, part of the
collateral impact is construction. So follow the money.”
At Lundy Construction, however, there is no secret to the company’s success. Notes
Lundy, “It is what you can see that is our winning formula: Hard work, a desire to
retain customers, a top-down requirement that the customer is the most important
element in our business plan, and, finally, what feels like an inbred commitment to
the Golden Rule.”

SPCA Facility Addition Construction to Begin

 

From March 12, 2013 Sun Gazette

In its effort to serve as many of the area’s animals as possible, the Lycoming County SPCA, 2805 Reach Road, broke ground Friday on an addition that will give the facility three new rooms.
“One of the things we realized is we didn’t have enough room for our cats. We didn’t have enough room for our dog training,” Director Victoria Stryker said on why the shelter needed the new spaces.
After receiving donations totaling more than $225,000 from family donors and the First Community Foundation Partnership, plans to add three rooms – one for incoming cat screenings, one to be used as a multipurpose room for dog and volunteer training and a third for surgery – were created.
Joyce Hershberger, SPCA board president, said the donations came at the right time, “like a miracle from the sky.”
Construction on the project is to begin this week and is expected be completed by the end of May. Stryker said the donations received will fund the construction but more donations are needed to furnish the addition.
The work will be the second addition on the facility since it opened in 1998. A small free-roaming cat area was completed last year.
The new spaces will allow the shelter to better serve animals that are looking for new homes, Stryker said.
Cats will be able to be processed, have health evaluations and records stored in the facility’s database through the addition. Currently, these tasks are performed in a grooming room, Stryker said.
“We’ll be able to help more cats find homes,” she said.
Dog training, both for dogs in the shelter and the public, now is performed in the lobby. Stryker explained that in order to hold the training classes, furniture must be moved and then put back when finished. It also creates a disturbance for those visiting the facility as they must go around the training.
And with a new surgical area, the SPCA is hoping to have a veterinarian visit the shelter to spay and neuter the animals, instead of taking them to an outside facility.
“It’ll be less stressful for the animals to do it here,” Stryker explained.
Hershberger said the staff takes good care of the animals and the new addition, through the donations, will only enhance that.
“This is really a wonderful day for us and we are really looking forward (to the addition),” she said.

Year	Award
1995	Butler Northeast Region Builder of the Year
2008	Top Metal Builders in Metal Construction News
2008	Recognized for the Oldest Roof in the Northeast Region since 1969: the MR-24 Roof System
2008	50-Year Butler Franchise Builder