We need to acknowledge one guy right now before we move along too much
farther. We see that Marlon Schafer is not on the list of names any
longer but it has nothing to do with him not wanting to be a help as I
am sure you all know. Marlon has served us well and has been a tireless
help to WISPA for years. Marlon was the guy who many years ago in a room
full of WISPs said, "I think we need to have a trade association and I
think we should call it WISPA". I remember it well because I was sitting
right next to him when he said it. Marlon is truly one of the father's
of WISPA. His contributions are massive and his support has been and
will continue to be one of great strengths of this industry. I am sure I
speak for 100% of those here when I say thank you Marlon. We all owe you
a debt of gratitude that surely cannot be repaid with these few words of
kindness reflecting on your hard work. It is worth noting that Marlon is
chairman of at least 3 committees within WISPA and continues to work
daily to help our industry. Thank you Marlon.
To those who were short on the votes I say thank you for running. Thank
you for actually taking the time and effort to try to serve. An election
means nothing if you do not have candidates willing to run for office.
Vote count does not tell the whole story. I am guessing that most all of
our candidates would have served admirably as directors. Please do not
let the vote count deter your effort to serve in WISPA. If you wanted to
be a director now and did not come up higher in votes then all it takes
is a bit more face time. Join up an a committee or two and serve. Next
term you will be one of the ones who is holding a position on the board
if you make that effort. Again we thank all of our candidates for
running in the election.
To returning Board Members I say well done. There is no greater show of
respect in industry than having your peers ask you to represent them.
Your return to this board shows that the work you have done has helped
us all. We thank all of you who are returning and look forward to
another year of progress in helping our industry to prosper.
Welcome new Board Members! The WISPA Board of Directors has many of the
same names as we saw in last year's board with the exception of two new
faces. Mac Dearman and Jack Unger have joined our ranks. Both of these
men represent some of the best and brightest our industry has to offer.
I have known both of them for a few years and I consider them both to be
friends and I respect them. I know they will be good directors and I am
very happy to see them serving on our board.
Thanks to all who voted for me. I will try my best to represent you well
in all I do.
One last thank you and I will shut up! :-) David Smith handles much
of the behind the scenes work that is the machinery of WISPA. David
wrote the code for our elections and handles the election process for
us. He maintains the email list servers for WISPA. Dave is the guy we
call on when we need the Internet to do something that is not easily
done. David is paid for his services but I think he does a very good job
for us and I wanted to publicly acknowledge that here today.
Let's build this industry.
Scriv
David E. Smith wrote:
Congratulations to the new WISPA Board of Directors:
Mac Dearman
Tom DeReggi
Rick Harnish
Matt Larsen
George Rogato
John Scrivner
Jack Unger
Detailed voting results are available at http://vote.wispa.org/ .
David Smith
MVN.net
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