Photos by Scott Mitchell and Maurice Sartirana - CSPnet.com

Photos by Scott Mitchell and
Maurice Sartirana
Debbie Stokley (left) of CITGO, Alyson Salz of Righteous
Clothing and Gregg Johnson of Consolidated Buying Co.
Jan Hill (left) and Marge Cafarelli of Hill
Enterprises, Karin Thrift of Clif Bar and
Michele Hanson-Emerson of ExecuInsight
Paul Miller of MarketFare Foods
and his son, Hawkin
Lilli (left) and Jim Powers of U.S. Nutrition, Mary Buhler of Kellogg’s
Convenience Store Team and Debbie Wildrick of 7-Eleven
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Drew Kabakoff (right) of Sunoco with Eric Havlick of Thanasi Foods
Ryan Crockett (left) of Blendtec with Duane Shields and Peggy
Michels of Short Line Express
Steve Oliver (left) and Chris Chila of Amerada Hess, Brad Adams
of Sunoco and Paul Neuhoff of GSP Marketing Technologies
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Mark St. Germain (left) of Sara Lee, Steve Bradley of Wilbur Curtis and Eric Kolber of CITGO
Bill Hohler (left) of Jacksons Food Stores with Tom Solomon
and Frank Squilla of InComm
Andy Neely (left) and Steve Grotewiel of Midwest Petroleum, James Stroud
of Datawire and Brian Grotewiel of Midwest Petroleum

Lori Walton (left) of CBM Environmental
Services with Van Marshman of Lance Inc.
Chris Postlewaite (left) of Valor LLC with
Jason Grundy of Marathon Oil
Keith Solsvig (left) of ExxonMobil, Greg Dornbach of Lettieri’s, Joe Chiovera of
ExxonMobil and Russ Quick of Fas Mart/Shore Stop Convenience Stores
Jeff Hagel (left) and Rena Lopez of Ruiz Foods with Brad Call
of Maverik
The c-store outside the main ballroom hustled and bustled for the entire conference.
David Dill (left) of Gate Petroleum, Peter Leavitt of McLane and
Dave Yamaguchi of Holiday Stationstores
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David Antle (left) of Town & Country Food Stores with Steve
Sandman and Brion Gillett of Altadis USA
Tony Park (left) of Nextron and Doug DuBois of the Texas
Petroleum Marketers Association
Kevin Beichner (left) and William Strayer of Country Fair
with John Ludwig of CreaMiser
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Terry Taylor (left) of The Spinx Co. with Nancy Prior of Shell
Tariq Khan (left) of the National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven
Franchisees, Paul Miller of Marketfare Foods, Bill Price of Advantage Sales &
Marketing and Ed Redmond of MarketFare Foods
Hal Adams (left) of Valero with Jerry Morrow of Sara Lee
Coffee & Tea

Lon Audet (left) of Stinker Stations with Raz Rahman of Philip Morris
Marge Edwards of Forward Corp. and Tim Albrecht
of Mountain View Marketing
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Rena Lopez of Ruiz Foods shows off her prizes won for “Best Non-Fish
Item Caught” (a piece of coral) on the deep-sea-fishing excursion.
Pam Romelli of Consolidated Buying Co. learns some self-defense
skills from Troy Coe of Reality Defense training.
Randy Harp (left) of Alliance Data with Ara Bagdasarian of
TravelCenters of America
Doug Deweese (right) of Deweese Enterprises was the winning bidder
on a weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway, sponsored by USST.
Larry Glass of USST was on hand to congratulate Deweese

Ben Meyer (left) of CSX with Tony King
and Greg Irwin of R.J. Reynolds
Clinton Wilson (left) of Circle K with Andy Fotiades
of Mike’s Hard Lemonade
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Rafe Esquith, a teacher who
comes in early, stays late
and works weekends to help
his students achieve their
dreams, brought a dozen of
his fifth-graders to perform
songs and Shakespeare
soliloquies for the crowd at
the awards dinner. The 10year-old
kids go to a school
in a very poor section of Los
Angeles, but that hasn’t
stopped Esquith’s past
students from graduating
from institutions such as Yale
Law School.
Chef Peter shows off some of his culinary concoctions to
attendees of the cooking and healthy-living seminar.
After entering into a raffle for $5,000 (donated generously by Kraft Foods), Tom
Solomon (pictured) of InComm was the grand-prize winner. But the big winner
was Paul Miller’s Cure Duchenne foundation, to which Solomon turned around
and donated the money. Way to go, Tom!

Nat Leathers (left) of Dodge’s Food Stores, Rick DeRose of TSN, Jim Powers of U.S. Nutrition,
club pro Linzy Clark and Terry Taylor of The Spinx Co.
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Jim Fisher (left) of IMST, Bryn Cotton of
Leadership Network, Lamont Glendinning of
Piccadilly Circus Pizza and Randy McKinney
of The Broaster Co.
Ted Stumphauzer (left) of BP, Tom Caito and Andy Fotiades of
Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Mike Messink of Heineken USA and
club pro Louis Tate.
Look, up in the sky! Mike Zielinski of Royal
Buying Group watches his ball fly.

Michael Kerby (left) of ExxonMobil, Shultz Hartgrove of U.S. Nutrition,
Elizabethe Bogart of NACS and Rick Kellam of Star Manufacturing
Steve Sandman of Altadis USA sets up his shot.
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Jim Bursch (left) of CSP, Tariq Khan of the National Coalition of
Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees, Ken Gerak of True
Foodservice Equipment and Jon Vonder Haar of Anheuser-Busch
Jim Joynt (left) of Kraft Foods, Brian Grotewiel of Midwest Petroleum
and Bill Henry of Kellogg’s
Brian Kocak (left) of Heineken USA, Jim Garrett of Volta Oil, Gene
Rech of Johnsonville Sausage and Larry Hauck of Garb-Ko
Gary Toth (left) of Savory Foods, Lloyd Sanford of TravelCenters of
America and Kevin Curtis of Wilbur Curtis

Joel Smart of Gannett took home the award for smallest fish caught (but at least he caught one!).
Sponsored by InComm, the deep-sea-fishing
excursion on the Super Queen took about 80
CRC attendees out into the Gulf for an
afternoon of sun, seafood and calm seas.
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Jason Grundy of Marathon Oil
celebrates his fine fish.
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