2000 and 2001 Inductees

Helen Lindberg Inducted March 3, 2000 As the youngest daughter of the late Mike Occhiato, Helen Lindberg was one of the owners of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. for many years and later was a founder-director of the Mike Occhiato Foundation.  She has served for many years on the board of the Pueblo Symphony, McClelland Learning Center, Rosemont Museum Auxiliary, Pueblo Zoo, and Broadway Theater League.  A tireless leader at the Sangre de Cristo Arst and Conference Center, she has chaired its nominating committee and co-chaired the Private Sector Endowment Fund Campaign.  She also has organized four successful fashion show fund-raisers for the Arts Center and two for the new Buell Children's Museum.  Through the Mike Occhiato Foundation she has overseen the distribution of nearly $600,000 in grants to local institutions, including the University of Southern Colorado and Pueblo Community College.

Jerry Lindburg Inducted March 3, 2000 A native Minnesotan, Mr. Lindberg came to Pueblo in 1951 as a junior engineer at CF&I Steel Corp., and over the years he rose through management to become Plant Manager and then Vice President.  During those later years, CF&I was obliged to install air pollution control measures.  As a result, the plant was considered one of the cleanest mills in the country.  In civic life, Lindberg has held leadership roles at McClelland Children's Home, Pueblo Chamber of Commerce, Pueblo United Way, Pueblo Development Commission, Pueblo Symphony, Pueblo Labor-Management Council, and Pueblo Economic Development Corporation, for which he was one of the early recruiting team members.  As Vice President of the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation Board of Trustees, he has been instrumental in issuing major grants to the Buell Communication Center at USC and the Buell Children's Museum at the Arts and Conference Center.

Vincent Massari Inducted March 3, 2000 Vincent Massari was very much a renaissance man.  An immigrant statesman, tenacious advocate, counselor and friend to thousands.  He also had the role of businessman, editor and staunch defender of Pueblo and southern Colorado.  It was during Massari's 22 years as a state legislator that he was able to elevate Southern Colorado State College to a university, based on his belief that the young people of Pueblo and southern Colorado needed convenient access to higher education in order to gain economic success.  Massari came to the U.S. from Italy in 1915, and for many years published a newspaper, L'Unione.  He was an advocate of ethnic Puebloans when they needed help dealing with all levels of government.  He was a long-time national President of the Columbian Federation of Italian Societies, defending passionately the good name of Italian-Americans.  As Senator, he was able to obtain a Colorado University School of Medicine resident training program for Pueblo.

John Baron Farley, M.D. Inducted March 2, 2001 John Farley moved with his family to Pueblo during World War I.  He attended Regis High and was one of 28 seniors out of 34 who were expelled 20 days prior to graduation for what today would be a very minor offense--going to town when told not to.  He returned to Pueblo and worked for seven years at CF&I as a laborer and simultaneously sold insurance for Mass Mutual.  It was only then that Regis forgave the young men's "sin" and awarded them diplomas and one-year scholarships to Creighton University.  After earning his medical degree, John Farley returned to Pueblo in the early 1930's and became a partner of Dr. Thomas Stoddard.  With many people thrown out of work during the depression, Dr. Farley established a county-wide public health program, which was copied nationwide.  He was elected to the Pueblo School Board of Education and served several stints as chairman of the City Health Department.  Following the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, he formed the Farley Foundation, awarding over 100 scholarships for proficiency in math and science.

Tom Healy Inducted March 2, 2001 Much of Tom Healy's community service centered around the Colorado State Fair.  As chairman of the Pueblo Chamber of Commerce State Fair Committee, he labored many hours each year to make the fair better than the previous year's.  He worked as chairman of the "Tom Hands Committee," which was organized in 1970 to arrange events for the fair.  He also served as a special consultant to the State Fair Commission, and was a large donor to the Events Center.  He continues to help the fair.  In business, he teamed with Sam Jones to create Jones-Healy Real Estate, and played a significant role in the creation of commercial developments like the Sunset and Belmont Shopping Centers, and University Station.  He also was instrumental in developming the land occupied by the Pueblo Mall.  More recently, he has been involved in the development of the land between Sam's Club and the Super Wal-Mart and other nearby land.  All the while, Tom Healy has been a generous supporter of many Pueblo causes.

Marvin N. Stein Inducted March 2, 2001 Marvin Stein is a Pueblo native who graduated from Centennial High School and the University of Colorado in Boulder.  He has made a mark for himself for being a long-time recognized leader in the wholesale food industry on state, regional and national levels.  But it is his home town that Marvin Stein has given his time and financial support for the benefit of more than a dozen noteworthy causes.  These include the Regional Planning Commission in the 1960's.  St. Mary-Corwin Hospital Lay Advisory Board and the Pueblo Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in the 1970's, chairman of the Pueblo City/County Foundation, and the University of Southern Colorado Foundation.

Sandra M. Stein Inducted March 2, 2001 Sandra Stein was born in Arizona and later attended the University of Colorado in Boulder.  There, Sandy met and married Pueblo native Marvin Stein and moved to our community in 1964.  She has been tireless in her work with the Broadway Theatre League, St. Mary-Corwin Auxiliary, Rosemont Museum, Temple Emanuel Synagogue, Parkview Hospital Foundation, Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, and many other noteworthy organizations.