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Monte of Riverside is president and owner of Monte Package Company,��a company that he has taken from being a local agricultural supplier to a national��provider of produce packaging.��

Sam’s parents established the company in 1925 and in the early 1960s, passed it��on to him and his wife, Connie. Sam expanded the business in 1969 and again��in 1990 by establishing allied companies to Monte Package Company. In 2001,��further growth led to a distribution center in Lakeland, Florida.

In four decades of management, Monte has diversified the operation from��specializing primarily in wood containers to now handling America’s largest line of��produce containers and providing many agricultural packaging-related services.��Sam graduated from LMC with an Associate in Arts degree in 1954 and went on to��Michigan State University to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.��

Demonstrating their commitment to the future of agriculture through education, Sam��and Connie recently established the Tony and Rose Monte-Monte Package Company��Agricultural Scholarship to provide recipients with full tuition for two years at LMC��and two years at Michigan State University in an agriculture-related major.

Sam Monte received the Clarence Beckwith Alumni Award in 2005.