GREENVILLE Mandalay executive named Entrepreneur of the Year

THE VINDICATOR, YOUNGSTOWN
GREENVILLE, Pa. --The chief executive officer of Mandalay Sports Entertainment has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Haller Enterprise Institute at Thiel College.
Henry E. "Hank" Stickney, who lives in Alta Loma, Calif., will receive the honor at the annual Haller Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year Award Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Sawhill-Georgian Room of the Howard Miller Student Center.
Mandalay Sports owns and operates three minor league baseball teams in Dayton, Ohio, Las Vegas and Shreveport, La. Stickney serves on the board of trustees of the National Association of Baseball.
Earlier this year, Ernst & amp; Young presented him with Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist Award for his work in bringing baseball to Ohio and Inc. Magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1986.
History: Stickney earned a bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University and a master's in business administration from Boston University.
In 1978, he founded and served as president of Western Medical Specialties, one of the first national providers of specialized home health care. He later founded Reimbursement Dynamics Inc., a medical consulting firm.
Stickney also owns a florist shop, a radio station, a dinner theater, a satellite TV movie company and a telephone company.
The Haller Enterprise Institute, originally called the Thiel College Enterprise Institute, was renamed in 1996 when Dr. Henry E. and Grace Mary Haller donated $1 million to develop entrepreneurial education at Thiel.