Richard “Dick” Cossette owned Lehman’s Garage, a Minneapolis-area repair business, and held numerous leadership positions on the Automotive Service Association board of directors. He was a charter founder of the Automotive Management Institute and the first chairman of EXCEL, AMI’s resource development effort, to which he contributed $50,000 as a charter counselor. AMI presented him its Annual Recognition Award in 1994 and an honorary Accredited Automotive Manager designation in 1997. AMI’s Richard Cossette/Gale Westerlund Memorial Scholarship is named in part for him. He died in 2002.
Dick Cossette
Class of 1994