Spring Air's Eilenfeldt receives YMCA honor
Recognizes extraordinary leadership
David Perry -- Furniture Today, September 21, 2006
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. – National honors from the YMCA keep piling up for Spring Air’s Bob Eilenfeldt.
Eilenfeldt, vice president of field sales for the bedding producer, was selected for the Harold Keltner Award, which recognizes YMCA volunteers, staff and program participants who have displayed extraordinary leadership at the local and national level in YMCA programs.“This is the kind of award that you always dream of getting,” said Eilenfeldt, who is based in Dallas and reports to the corporate Spring Air office in Elk Grove Village. “It is the highest honor in the YMCA parent-child program and you hope that you are worthy of receiving it. I felt very honored in being recognized by my peers.”Eilenfeldt has had a life-long involvement with the YMCA, one that started back in Mason City, Iowa, where Eilenfeldt learned to swim at the local YMCA. He learned to appreciate the value of YMCA programs at an early age, and began giving back to the YMCA as a volunteer in the early 1990s.At that time Eilenfeldt was living in the Chicago area, and he began working in YMCA programs there with his son, Kyle. He has also shared his love of the YMCA with his daughter Mary, who is now 19.From 1999 to 2005, Eilenfeldt served on the council for the Indian Guides/Adventure Guides programs. He was elected in 2001 as the national chairman for the National Advisory Council of the YMCA’s Adventure Guides program. That program eventually became the YMCA Adventure Guides.The Harold Keltner Award is named after a former St. Louis YMCA director, who was instrumental in starting the YMCA Indian Guides program in the 1930s. The Keltner award is presented to individuals who make substantial contributions to the program on a national level.This is not the first time Eilenfeldt has been honored by the YMCA. In 2003, he received the YMCA of the USA Volunteerism Award, the YMCA’s highest volunteer honor.Eilenfeldt, who lives in Colleyville, Texas, has 30 years of experience in the bedding industry and has worked for Spring Air for the last nine years. His responsibilities include training national accounts’ sales representatives and implementing programs with accounts such as JCPenney, Macy’s and Mattress Giant.
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