Kathy Spanier, director of marketing for Coldspring in Cold Spring, MN, is the recipient of the 2016 MIA+BSI Person of the Year Award.

Garis (Gary) Distelhorst, CAE, Executive Vice President & CEO of the Marble Institute of America (MIA) since 2002, will retire December 31, 2012 after an accomplished 43-year career as a senior-level association executive.