Kay et al: Having, not that long ago, come from the SM ranks, I applaud the effort. There were many times I wish that I had the opportunity to discuss issues with other SMs, in a more open and close contact environment. I hope, as Bill has noted, that this will be a good venue for the SMs. At the convention, I believe there were around 28 SMs in attendance. They are a very hard bunch of folks who have daily contact with the membership. I thank Second Vice President Fenstermaker, for acknowledging the SMs in his remarks at the luncheon. I talk with the SMs in the NW Division fairly often; more to encourage than anything else. They are a great bunch! 73, Jim K7CEX -------------------------------------------------- From: "Kay Craigie" <n3kn@verizon.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:28 PM To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:23147] FYI
A few days ago I received an e-mail from the Section Manager of Tennessee, Keith Miller N9DGK, which said,
"During the recent ARRL National Convention held in Hartford, CT, a meeting was held for all of the attending Section Managers at the convention. Steve Ewald has already sent a summary of that meeting out on the SM reflector. We only had about an hour before the closing ceremony started so we tried to put as much into the conversation as possible.
"Two things came from that meeting: (1) We needed more time to talk and (2) the desire to convene regularly scheduled SM conference calls to discuss Section level issues and other information as needed. Three section Managers, Karl Bowman DVM W4CHX, SM NC; David Greenhut N6HD, SM LAX and I volunteered to coordinate the calls.
"We are currently anticipating the call to be on Aug, 28 based on the responses to date."
The webinar has in fact been scheduled for that date.
I have met two of these three SMs and have *no* reason to think that the intent is to revive something like the old "secret treehouse" unofficial SM e-mail reflector that was a soapbox for Board-bashing. That's just not the vibe I'm getting.
The organizers invited me to say a few words at the beginning of their webinar and I accepted. Steve Ewald and Ken Bailey were on the cc: list for the webinar registration information announcement. The organizers invited me to stay for the whole webinar, but I don't think I'll do that. My experience as a Section Manager is so far in the past that it's archaeological.
I wanted you to hear about this from me and not via the grapevine.
73 - Kay N3KN
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