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William H. Maloof
William H. Maloof founded Park Place, Inc. and Level Propane Gases, Inc. In both of these enterprises, he pioneered new businesses responding to well-established needs by deployment of new approaches and new technologies. When he founded Park Place, he began the first offsite airport parking facility in the country. Once those using the airport found Park Place, it became a consistently profitable enterprise offering a service that was in consistent demand. His parking lot was so successful that he was able to contribute a portion of the parking lot’s proceeds to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital on a continuing basis.
Maloof noticed that the cost of the propane he used in his parking business consistently spiked every winter. Once he had put together a response to this phenomenon, he recognized a business opportunity in offering propane of consistent quality at a consistent price. On that premise, he founded Level Propane in 1990. With an ever-developing centralized computer delivery system, Level Propane grew quickly until in 2002, it was the eighth largest propane distributor in the United States. In June, 2002, the scheme described in this site drove William Maloof’s enterprise into the bankruptcy court, where the battle continues to this day.
Orders and recognition for his faith and works of charity
The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great was established onSeptember 1, 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election. It is one of the five pontifical orders of knighthood in the Catholic Church. The order is bestowed on Catholic men and women (and in rare cases, non-Catholic men) in recognition of their service to the Church, unusual labors, support of the Holy See, and the good example set in their communities and country.
The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is a Roman Catholicchivalric order of Knighthood that traces its roots to Godfrey of Bouillon, principal leader of the First Crusade. According to reliable sources in the Vatican and Jerusalem, it began in historical reality as a mixed clerical and lay confraternity (association) of pilgrims which gradually grew around the most central of the Christian holy places in the Middle East, the Holy Sepulchre or the tomb of Jesus Christ.
 
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta (known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), Order of Malta or Knights of Malta for short) is a Roman Catholicorder based in Rome, Italy. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a sovereign subject of international law.
Today the order has 12,500 members, 80,000 permanent volunteers, 13,000 medical personnel including doctors, nurses, auxiliaries and paramedics. The goal is to assist the elderly, the handicapped, refugees, children, the homeless, those with terminal illness and leprosy in five continents of the world, without distinction of race or religion.
- St Jude Children’s Research Hospital Board of Directors 1994-1997
- Bowling Green State University BS 1969
- Phi Kappa Psi
- Honorable Discharge from US Coast Guard
 
- Past member of the Cleveland Grays
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