Gale Westerlund

Gale Westerlund owned and operated Gale’s Auto Center in Blaine, Minn., and served for many years on the Automotive Service Association board of directors. He earned the Automotive Management Institute’s Accredited Automotive Manager designation in 1993 and was a $25,000 Guarantor contributor to EXCEL, AMI’s resource development program. After his death in 2005, AMI and ASA established the Richard Cossette/Gale Westerlund Memorial Scholarship, which honors him and 1994 inductee Dick Cossette by helping a collision repair professional attend educational sessions at NACE.