Pete Korte First Recipient of the Ondessonk Builders and Founders Legacy Award
In 1996, Pete hosted the first annual Camp Ondessonk Golf Benefit, which raises funds to support camp and most especially the Scholarship Fund. Hundreds of Pete’s colleagues, family and friends have participated as golfers, sponsors, and volunteers, urged by his exclamation “It’s all for the kids!”
This year is the 20th anniversary of the golf benefit, and as of this year, Pete Korte and his team will have raised over $600,000 to benefit the children of Camp Ondessonk.
In addition, as the owner of Korte & Luitjohan Contractors Inc., in Highland Illinois, he has been instrumental in helping camp with its many building projects, from volunteering his employee’s time and expertise to providing his company’s equipment to help camp complete projects on time and significantly under budget. Pete and his team were a big part of building camp’s beach shower house, the installation of waterlines down camp’s main road, the construction of the old dining hall pavilion, the high ropes challenge course and climbing wall, and many, many more Camp projects.
Pete is a devout, spiritual man who believes that the values that Camp Ondessonk teaches are the values that our world needs today. His generosity and his dedication inspires us all, and his legacy will live on in the campers’ lives that he has positively influenced for many generations to come.
Heepwah, Pete!