Re: Farewell

[Paul W Gossett <pwgossett@juno.com>]

Bob,

I would like to offer my appreciation for your dedication and hard work
for AIS.  I know the amount of time you put into your work was a
tremendous amount but, you have been a GREAT ASSET to AIS.  Thank you for
serving in the directorship position and I hope you will continue working
for AIS in the future....we need your experience and dedication.

THANK YOU.

Paul







On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:29:17 -0400 (EDT) Robert Pries 
<robertpries@embarqmail.com> writes:
> I wish to express a farewell to THE BOARD as I leave as a director. 
> Since THE
> BOARD really is a constantly changing entity with every year four 
> directors
> coming and four going there are several directors who are new and 
> several that
> are no longer on the board that were there during my term. But to 
> all I say
> thank you for serving and allowing me to serve. Few understand the 
> amount of
> work that many of the directors put into this job.
> 
> 
> 
> B 
> 
> When I came to the board 5 years ago I was filling a position of a 
> director
> who left so I did not serve a full 6 years. Nonetheless I thought 
> surely 5
> years was enough to get us out of the hole we were in. Today we are 
> still in
> the hole, but I think we can finally see a way out. The erosion of 
> our
> membership has been constant over 16 years and I think The Board was 
> in denial
> when I came. Partly because the prevailing view was that every plant
> organization was failing. I hope I have dispelled that myth. Yes 
> only a few
> had been prospering and even those had occasionally down turns. But 
> the more I
> have studied the problem, the more optimistic I am over the 
> possibilities.
> Unfortunately possibilities are only a promise that without 
> hard-work, and
> change cannot be realized. It is often too easy to just do what we 
> have been
> doing. I know of no area that can not be improved. We must examine 
> what we
> think is good and make it better. THE BOARD is charged with the 
> well-being of
> the society. I wish it the luck, the intelligence, and the energy to 
> make the
> society great again.
> 
> 
> 
> B 
> 
> Being off the board, I may be less active. But Judy has asked me to 
> stay with
> some of my duties. Remember when I show discouragement with THE 
> BOARD, I still
> respect the individuals that serve. I will try to celebrate when THE 
> BOARD
> solves a problem, but I do not apologize that I will always be 
> thinking of
> where we can be, not where we are.
> 
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