MANPOWER
INC.
In
1948, Elmer Winter and his law partner, Aaron Scheinfeld, organized Manpower Inc. to provide temporary help services to business
firms, professionals, etc., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company expanded rapidly over the years to the point where
it now operates 4,000 offices in 82 countries. Its international volume of business totaled $22 billion at the end
of 2008.
Winter served as President of Manpower Inc. until his retirement in 1976. Aaron Scheinfeld
died in 1970. Winter died in 2009. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Winter
had an office at Manpower’s headquarters in Milwaukee, WI.
A LEADER IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY
Former member,
Bi-National Business Council, U.S.A.-Israel. Winter was selected to serve on this committee by President Johnson.
This Council was established and chaired by Governor George Romney.
Appointed by President
Ford as a delegate to the White House Economic Summit in September, 1974.
Member,
Steering Committee, National Committee for Full Employment (follow-up to the White House Economic Summit Conference).
Past
Chairman (1968-69), Metropolitan Milwaukee Division, National Alliance of Businessmen (appointed by President Johnson, reappointed
by President Nixon).
Co-founder and Past Chairman, Milwaukee Voluntary Equal Employment Opportunity Council.
Recipient,
Milwaukee Urban League, Equal Employment Opportunity Award.
Recipient, Society for Advancement of Management, Human Relations Award.
Theme-setter
and delegate to White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead held in Washington, D.C., February, 1972.
Named
to Hall of Fame in Franchising, Boston College Center for the Study of Franchise Distribution and Smaller Business.
Recipient,
Leadership Award, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
Past President, International Franchise Association.
Past Vice President,
International Society for Advancement of Management.
DEDICATED TO IMPROVING
HUMAN RELATIONS
Winter was elected to serve as the National President of the American Jewish
Committee in 1972. He served in this position for four years. Later, he served as Honorary President of the
American Jewish Committee which is one of America’s oldest human relations organizations.
DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING
Past
Chairman and Founder, Housing Development Foundation for Greater Milwaukee, Inc., a nonprofit organization representing Milwaukee
business and industry which builds new houses in the inner city for sale to low income, large families.
Past member,
Board of Directors, We-Milwaukeeans.
Past member, Board of Directors, Greater Milwaukee Committee.
