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anyone, demanding a lot. It’s been
very nice to be able to work with him.
My son and his family are my closest
supporters.”
Tommy still lives on the family
farm, and his son is just across the
road. “My family has influenced my
work because they have supported me
in all phases of my career,” he said. “I
worked on the road for 15 years and
missed a lot of seeing my son grow
up, which I will always be sorry of.
They would do some of my chores
around the house so I could spend
my time away from work dedicated to
them. I don’t think I had to cut grass
for the entire 15 years.”
Another group that Tommy enjoys is his church family. “I
have been attending the same church since I was a child,”
he said. “It is a small country church where I have been the
organist for the past 50 years.” He also works in the Carroll
County Mentor program, which takes in kids who are not as
fortunate as others and encourages them to stay in school
and make something of their lives.
Some of Tommy’s other hobbies are bird hunting, spending
time with his grandkids, working on the farm, and collect-
ing old cars. A member of the Antique Automobile Club of
America, he ranks his 1967 Chevelle Super Sport Big Block
and 1931 Model A Sport Coupe as the pride of his collection.
He and Brenda also enjoy time on the lake. “It seems like our
vacations and meetings are all planned around water (e.g.,
the recent PCCA Mid-Year in Savannah, Ga., and the upcom-
ing Convention in Naples, Fla.),” he said. “One would think
we would get enough of the lake since we have two behind
our house.”
PCCA and a Carrollton Connection
Tommy attended his first PCCA Convention in 1988 at the
Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nev., when Steve Bauchman was
president, and the Mid-Year in Savannah was his 27th PCCA
meeting. “Mr. Silvey invited me to attend the meeting in Las
Vegas and told me that I should be proud of the association
because many of our competitors were members and we
could learn from one another and from the different pro-
grams that PCCA provided.”
Over the years, Tommy became more involved in the as-
sociation and was elected to the Board of Directors. “Ron
Tagliapietra approached me several years ago and asked if I
would become more active in the leadership role, and I com-
mitted to him that I would.”
He held true to that commitment, and after moving up
through the officer ranks, he became PCCA president in De-
cember 2011, a few months early due to the untimely death
of his predecessor and friend Larry Libla. Remarkably, he is
now the third PCCA president to hail from the small town of
Carrollton, following Roy Richards in 1952-53 and Frank Rose
in 1961-62.
“Herb Fluharty, Ron, Steve Spears, Kevin Mason, and Larry
Libla were very influential to me as I came up through the
ranks on the board,” Tommy said. “I watched them conduct
the meetings and thought they all did a very professional job
with their tenure. The accomplishment I am most proud of
while serving on the PCCA board is being able to recruit Tim
Wagner and his company to run our group as a professional
organization.”
As a top goal for his presidency, Tommy is eager to see the
association move forward with its efforts to have telecom job
classifications on U.S. Department of Labor wage surveys
more closely reflect actual jobs on telecom projects. He
also said, “I would like people to remember me as the type
president who was a friend to all and got others to participate
with the issues at hand.”
Everybody at PCCA who knows Tommy Muse knows that
he is exactly type of man—one with a warm smile and a kind
word for everyone he meets and one who gets involved and
tackles the issues that matter most to him, his family, his
company, and his industry.
Tommy Muse
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