BIO
A 30 year state association member including 14 on the Board of Directors, he has served as Chairman and Federation delegate. As a housing retailer and campground operator, he served as a Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission member for 15 years. He has been MMH&RVCA PAC Chairman, and a member of the University of Michigan Task Force study of Michigan housing needs. He helped organize the Midwest MH Federation which operates the Louisville MH Show.
BIO
An RV retailer since 1967, he was instrumental in the formation of what has now become the Florida RV Trade Association and is a 15 year leader of that organization. He now has three generations of his family involved in his dealership and his son and grandson are both now state officers. He is a 20 year national association member.
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A 33 year industry veteran, he is Past Chairman of MHI, and served 2 terms as MHI Technical Activities Committee Chairman. He developed the first HUD code two story home, and is a recognized long time proponent of industry construction and safety standards. He is also the first second generation Hall of Fame inductee, his father Walter O. Wells having been honored as and industry pioneer in 1974.
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He has been in the Manufactured Housing and RV industries since 1941, and is a 20 year MHI member. He founded Patrick Industries in 1957, and introduced Gypsum board to the MH industry, he also introduced pre-finished paneling and many other components in common use today. He has served on the Board of Directors of Ivy Tech College, which trains thousands of industry personnel, since 1980.
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He is a 20 year representative to the National Manufactured Housing Federation for the Arizona association and was the National Federation Chairman in 1984 & 85. He has served as state association President twice, he is a Governor’s appointee to the Arizona Board of Housing, and he served on the committee to consolidate 5 separate Arizona MH associations into one functioning body.
