b"2023 Hall of Fame: Dennis CampoMARKETER MEMBER An important part of our News national event in Las Vegas,Nevada is the naming of the WPMA Hall of Fame Recipient.Each year the WPMA Executive Com-mittee has an opportunity to choose one or more de-serving individuals from the petroleum or related industries who have gone above and beyond expec-tations in our Associa-tion. For 2023 Dennis Campo of Campo and Poole Distributinglessons from the Great Depression. The product in Fruitland, Idaho was recognized. Theof a poor farming family, Denniss father 2023 recipient's petroleum business isreturned home in 1946 from his Army service synonymous with family, commu- during WWII with two purple hearts. He started nity, and history. With deep rootsout as a garage mechanic, and then in 1949 in his hometown, Dennis grewtook over as an agent for Utah Oil Company, up in the oil industry under thewhich later became AMOCO. He bought the mentorship of his father Artbusiness from AMOCO in 1979 and named Campo, a self-made entre- the company Campo Oil Co Inc. This was the preneur who taught hisprecursor to what would eventually become, son core businessunder Dennis Campos leadership, three sepa-values defined byrate companies: Campo Oil, PC Energy, and his own hard- Campo & Poole Distributing, resulting finally learned andin a major merger with Carson Oil.hard-earnedA second-generation natural and self-made en-trepreneur, Dennis joined his father, Art, in the family business in 1976. In 2010, he teamed up with the Poole family in a joint venture to build a bio diesel rail terminal in Ontario, Oregon. Two years later, on the heels of the successful bio diesel partnership, the two families joined their wholesale companies, forming one dis-tributorship: Campo & Poole Distributing. The 2019 merger of these two companies with 2022-23 WPMA PresidentKary Tonjum from Montana awards Dennis Campofrom Idaho the 2023 WPMA Hall of Fame award 32www.wpma.com / Scholarship 2023"