Orco Block’s President to Receive Titan Award at Front & Center
Rick Muth will be honored for his longtime support

January 30, 2007 :: No. 119

For his commitment to the future prosperity and health of family-run businesses, Rick Muth, president of Orco Block Co., will be feted Feb. 3 when Cal State Fullerton honors the longtime Titan supporter with its Orange County Titan Award during the university’s 12th annual Front & Center gala.

A founding member of Cal State Fullerton’s Family Business Council, Muth donated $500,000 last year to the College of Business and Economics to establish an endowment for the Rick Muth Family Chair in Family Business. The gift will enable the Family Business Council to recruit a professor in family business, and the gift also ensures that the council and its goals to support family businesses will continue on into the future.

Muth joined his family-owned business in 1975 as assistant office manager and moved up the ranks to the leadership position he holds today. He was honored as California Small Business Person of the Year in 2003, has served as president of the Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada, and in 1995, chaired the National Concrete Masonry Association.

Established by Muth’s father 60 years ago, Stanton-based Orco Block Co. is one of the nation’s top-10 concrete block manufacturers, producing more than 500 stock items and maintaining an ongoing emphasis on product research and development, quality-control testing and supporting technical studies. Its management style is to reinvest profits back into the company.

Previous Orange County Titan Award honorees include: retired Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda; George Golleher, retired CEO of Ralphs Grocery Co.; Robert and Marie Gray of St. John Knits; Jim and Patti Edwards of Edwards Cinemas; Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union; the Angels; Paul Folino, chairman and CEO of Emulex Corp.; and former Rockwell chairman and CEO Donald Beall.

Front & Center begins at 8 p.m. Feb. 3 at Honda Center (formerly Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim). The gala will feature a concert by Chicago and will be emceed by Cal State Fullerton alumnus Jack O’Connell (B.A. history ’73), state superintendent of public instruction. Other highlights will include performances by students from the university’s award-winning Theatre and Dance Department. Tickets are available by calling 657-278-3480.

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