Clarence Beckwith Distinguished Alumni Award: Sam Monte
Monte of Riverside is president and owner of Monte Package Company,听a company that he has taken from being a local agricultural supplier to a national听provider of produce packaging.听
Sam鈥檚 parents established the company in 1925 and in the early 1960s, passed it听on to him and his wife, Connie. Sam expanded the business in 1969 and again听in 1990 by establishing allied companies to Monte Package Company. In 2001,听further growth led to a distribution center in Lakeland, Florida.
In four decades of management, Monte has diversified the operation from听specializing primarily in wood containers to now handling America鈥檚 largest line of听produce containers and providing many agricultural packaging-related services.听Sam graduated from LMC with an Associate in Arts degree in 1954 and went on to听Michigan State University to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.听
Demonstrating their commitment to the future of agriculture through education, Sam听and Connie recently established the Tony and Rose Monte-Monte Package Company听Agricultural Scholarship to provide recipients with full tuition for two years at LMC听and two years at Michigan State University in an agriculture-related major.
Sam Monte received the Clarence Beckwith Alumni Award in 2005.
