Where is the Reg Lenna Civic Center?
• Who is Reg Lenna? Reg was born in Jamestown, graduated from Jamestown High School, Manlius Military School, and from the engineering school at Lehigh University. He became assistant to the President of Blackstone in 1947 and brought with him new technical concepts and was instrumental in entering the Blackstone Company in the international market. When he became President of the corporation in the early 1960’s he opened the first Swedish Blackstone plant. The company expanded under his leadership to open factories in Canada and other parts of the world. Reg Lenna was one of the first to recognize the realities of a world economy and he acted upon it. Reg was knighted by the King of Sweden, the Royal Order of the North Star, in 1976 and received an honorary doctorate in 1981 from St. Bonaventure University. In 1975 he received the Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He was active in many other organizations such as the United Way of Southern Chautauq
