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Chairman’s Message,
June 2005
What a Year!
As this may be my final
Chairman’s Message for the year, I would like to take
this opportunity to recap our achievements this year.
It all started with the
adoption of our Strategic Plan and the vote to accept
our new Constitution at last year’s historic convention
aboard the Cruise Ship Infinity. The plan called for a
reorganization of our association that would see our 10
Districts being reorganized into 5 Regions, our Board of
Directors being given the responsibility to oversee long
range planning and our Headquarters being given the
responsibility and the authority to manage the day to
day stewardship of our Association. You, the individual
member, was given the power by vote to elect the Board
of Directors.
The implementation of the
strategic plan started immediately after its adoption
with the striking of a Bylaws Committee to rewrite our
bylaws. These new bylaws were adopted at our Mid-Year
Board meeting in Las Vegas in February of this year.
The Management team, under
the direction of our CEO and President was restructured
to include a group of Vice Presidents to assist in
various aspects of association management.
We redesigned our logo and
adopted the tag line “The Graphic Professionals Resource
Network”. Our focus changed from “Share your Knowledge”
to the more comprehensive and EPIC focus of Educate,
Promote, Inform and Connect. Everything we do from now
on will be based of this new motto. This is our reason
for being.
The new structure encouraged
a marked increase in communication and connection with
our members, in the form of The Communicator, the
Knowledge Network (Y’KNOW), weekly eblasts, EDUs and
Connection 101 articles. CraftNet was upgraded to
provide more benefit and continues to grow and improve
weekly. The Gallery of Superb Printing, our premier
awards program, continues to drive our public image,
revenues and membership.
As I write this, a policy
committee is meeting weekly via 2 hour conference calls
to rewrite our policy manual. This new manual will be
unveiled at the Jacksonville Convention in August.
In the 25 years or so that I
have been a member of the IAPHC, I have never seen so
many members step forward to volunteer so much of their
time to help, as I have seen in the last two years with
this rebirth of our association. Thank you to all. I
have never been as proud to be a Craftsmen.
Sincerely,
Norm Belanger,
Chairman, IAPHC- The Graphic Professionals Resource
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