Michael Lynn Shatto typified the confidence
and creativity that symbolizes today's youthful
entrepreneurial spirit. His leadership reflected an
example of excellence in generosity, motivational influencing
and effective problem solving, highlighted by his unique
listening ability. Unfortunately, Michael passed away on
August 17, 2000 at the peak of his young life.
Reflection
"We begin as prisoners. Some people live
two-thirds of their lives on the provision made for them by
others. We graduate into cooperators, earn our own
living, hold up our end of the job, produce a little extra for
the pensioners that are coming behind us. A few
enter the third stage, where they do something more for the
world, that the world does for them. They put the world
in their debt by making every man's living better, or his hope
larger or his opportunity wider. Just to hold up one's
end of the load is a great and satisfactory thing; it makes
one a man. However it only squares the account.
But to do for the world more than the world does for you -
that is a success."
Henry Ford
Michael Shatto was truly a success!
The Butterfly
(The Foundations Symbol)
| The butterfly is ever more blessed than the bird.
Though both grace the heavens in the ecstasy of flight,
the butterfly has known the drudgery of the crawl and the
lonely confinement of the cocoon. Its new found
freedom is richer, wider and more fulfilling than life
itself. |
|
Author Unknown |
A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam. And for
a brief moment its glory and beauty belong to our world.
But then it flies on again, and though we wish it could
have stayed, we feel so lucky to have seen it. |
|
Author Unknown |
From the Central Penn Business Journal:
Michael L. Shatto,
owner of MS Industrial Enterprises Inc. and Collective Base
Software, who was a Forty Under 40 recipient in 1999, died
Aug. 17. (2000). He was 36.
Shatto's company,
MS Industrial Enterprises, which distributes a variety of
electrical, mechanical, and power transmission parts, also
was ranked 37th in the Business Journal's 1998 Top Fifty
Fastest Growing Companies. The company's sales reached
$1 million that year. In 1999, the company ranked
44th.
MS Industrial
Enterprises was featured on CNN in 1997, and Shatto's two
companies were listed in Cahner Industrial Distribution
Magazine's Top 50 Fastest Growing Businesses this year.
Before starting MS
Industrial Enterprises, Fairview Township, Shatto worked for
a similar company that went out of business. He then
launched his first business venture, Play It Again, a
company that sold used compact discs.
Collective Base
Software, Fairview Township, a Web-site development and
database software company, started as a result of Shatto's
former partner creating software to categorize his CDs.
In Shatto's free
time, he volunteered as big brother for Big Brothers/Big
Sisters of Harrisburg, the Homeless Harbor project and
served on Gaudenzia Inc. development committee. He was
also a NASCAR photographer.
From the Sunday Patriot News:
Michael Shatto, 36,
noted businessman
Michael Lynn
Shatto, 36, an award-winning business owner and operator
died Thursday at his home on Bryon Nelson Circle in Etters.
Shatto owned M.S.
Industrial Enterprises and Collective Base Software.
His companies were listed among the fastest growing
businesses in the Central Penn Business Journal in 1998 and
1999. He also received Central Penn Business Journal's
Top 40 Under 40 Business Person of the Year Award in 1998.
This year, his companies were listed in Cahner Industrial
Distribution Magazine's Top 50 Fast Growing Businesses.
MS Industrial,
founded about 4 years ago, distributes industrial-power
transmission products, such as electronic motors, casters
and conveyors. The company holds exclusive
distribution rights for hundreds of companies in
south-central Pennsylvania.
He was also in the
restaurant business for a time. His father goes by the
trade name Ben Barber, a well-known local disc jockey.
His mother ran Ceramically Yours in Carlisle. Shatto
had also previously owned Play It Again Records in Carlisle.
He was the
treasurer of the Valley Green Men's Golf League; a
volunteer on the Development Committee of Gaudenzia Inc.;
a Big Brother with Big Brothers and Big Sisters; a
contributing photographer to the Winston Cup Scene Magazine
and Circle Track Magazine; and was Protestant.
