Four new ARRL Section Managers will take office on July 1. Ballots were counted May 20 for contested races in the spring SM election cycle.
In Indiana, Joseph Lawrence, K9RFZ, of Fort Wayne, received 652 votes to top incumbent Section Manager Lou Everett Sr, WA5LOU, of Cumberland, who polled 482 votes. Everett has been SM for the past 2 years.
Lawrence previously served as Indiana’s Section Emerg…
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In the only contested Section Manager election this fall, ARRL members in Tennessee have re-elected Keith E. Miller Sr, N9DGK. He received 690 votes, while challenger Randall Smith, KI4OAS, of Gadsden, received 352 votes. Smith is Tennessee’s Section Emergency Coordinator. Miller, who lives in Rockvale (near Murfreesboro), will begin his second term as Tennessee Section Manager on January 1. Ba…
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The TAPR Board of Directors has elected officers for the following year: President Steve Bible, N7HPR; Vice President Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z; Treasurer Tom Holmes, N8ZM; Secretary Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU. At the TAPR Annual General Membership Meeting on September 21, the three unopposed nominees John Ackermann, N8UR; Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z, and Mark Thompson, WB9QZB, were affirmed to serve as TAPR…
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This weekend, 12 newly elected or appointed Section Managers will be in Newington at ARRL Headquarters for an orientation workshop. The primary purposes of the three-day workshop sessions are to share ideas and to provide basic administrative, management, leadership and motivational training.
“The Section Manager Workshop is an orientation and training event for new Section Managers who have com…
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Former Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Ivica Dačić, YU1YU, was elected as that country’s newest Prime Minister on July 27. He succeeds Mirko Cvetković, who served as Serbia’s Prime Minister from 2008-2012. Dačić is the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia; from 2008 until his election as Prime Minister, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister, as well as Minister of Internal Affairs. In M…
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