Freeman Parr & Safety Awards

摘要

The Freeman Parr Awards and the TCIA Safety Awards were presented at the tree care industry's Winter Management Conference in Los Cabos, Mexico, In February. With the Freeman Parr award, we honor the memory of a man and the company he helped found, Parr & Hanson in Hicksville, N.Y. Back in the '50s and '60s, in the heyday of the "tree skinner" and in the boom created by Dutch Elm Disease, Freeman Parr helped usher in a new era. The "profession," if you cared to call it that, was pretty rough around the edges and not exactly what you would call customer-friendly. Mr. Parr, by contrast, made his sales calls in a lettered sedan, wearing a suit and signature bow tie. The firm is long gone, purchased by the Davey Company more than 30 years ago. Freeman Parr is deceased. Yet the legacy is one we still honor.