NFF Chapter Leadership Award Recipients
Biography
The Greater Cincinnati Chapter has enjoyed enormous success during the past several years thanks in part to the dynamic leadership of president Roger Thesing.
Thesing has led the Chapter to new heights as their scholar-athlete banquet annually attracts more than 500 people and features the awarding of several thousands of dollars in scholarships each year. In addition to their scholar-athlete banquet, Thesing and the Chapter support two area PLAY IT SMART programs and have staged an NFL/NFF Coaching Academy the past three years at Paul Brown Stadium.
A 1965 graduate of Xavier University, where he attended on a football scholarship, Thesing was a starting running back his final two seasons for the Musketeers and was named the team's Most Valuable Player while earning the Legion of Honor Award his senior year.
Currently a successful leader in the Cincinnati business community, Roger is the president and owner of Thesing Real Estate Services, Inc., a professional real estate firm, specializing in consulting, development, leasing and property management of commercial real estate. Thesing Real Estate Service, Inc. develops and manages in excess of 3,250,000 square feet of commercial real estate, consisting of office buildings, shopping centers, apartments and retirement centers. Thesing is also president and owner of Comprehensive Home Health Care Services Inc., a home health care agency that currently employ in excess of 225 people with annual sales of nearly $4,000,000. These are just two of the five companies Thesing serves as president and owner.
Roger and his wife Noel devote a great deal of time and energy to needy kids throughout the Cincinnati area. They have both been long time board members and supporters of such charitable organizations as St. Aloysius Orphanage, Boys Hope, Special Olympics and Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Witnessing a need to provide kids from broken homes with parental role models, Roger and Noel founded an organization called Couples for Kids approximately 12 years ago.
Roger has two children, a son and daughter.
