PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Mapping Out AIPG’s Future
Helen V. Hickman, CPG-07535
hickmanhydro@att.net
During the last couple of months since taking over my duties as President on January 1st, 2016, I have been busy asking fellow members to help out with various committees and preparing for the first Board meeting of the year, which we held in Tucson, Arizona on 12th February. The Executive Director Search Committee also squeezed in some interviews for the new Executive Director position. I would like to thank all the folks who volunteered on the various committees for their dedication in providing these various services to AIPG.
You will observe the results of the proposed slate of officers for 2017 in the pages of this TPG; our Past President, Foster Sawyer headed up this commit- tee. I propose that you read the bio.s in depth, check out the resumes of these individuals and if you need more infor- mation about anyone, get hold of their contact information if it is not provided, and contact them with your questions. Then vote for your chosen selections. It is not always easy to fill the slate of officers because all the positions require a signif- icant time commitment and the ability to meet deadlines, while balancing work and home lives. Everyone who accepted a nomination has thought about what this will mean to their lives and gives freely of their time. Some nominees will not be successful this year, but everyone deserves our thanks for agreeing to put their name on the ballot and be willing to serve.
The Awards and Nominations Committee selected awardees for the Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award, John T. Galey Sr. Memorial Public Service Award, Award of Honorary Membership and the Outstanding Achievement Award, under the capable chairmanship of the current Vice President, David Pyles. Nominees
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from whom these awards were selected were submitted by the membership; the nominations are due in January each year, so if you think you have a worthy recipient for next year’s awards in your section, you can submit a nomination form to Vickie at
vlh@aipg.org,any time before next January. Read about this year’s awardees in the TPG and come to the National Conference in Santa Fe in September to meet and hear all about them and the achievements for which they are being honored.
As part of the Tucson meeting, we conducted a planning session. The Board took an in-depth look at where we are as an organization and where we need to be going in the future. We came up with a few important thoughts and set some goals for this year. We have iden- tified several challenges that we will be working on this year. For now, I have a question about AIPG for every member to answer that resulted from our discus- sions and would love to hear as many answers as possible. The question is “What is the AIPG Brand?” There are no incorrect answers, since this links to another question we are contemplating – what are the values AIPG provides to its members. Please email me at hickman-
hydro@att.net if you have any thoughts on what you think the AIPG brand is, or should be.
This year’s Advisory Board Members - Kevin Gooding from Hawaii, Shanna Schmidt from Minnesota, Jeff Frederick from the NorthEast and Donnie Lumm from Kentucky, will be contacting your section officers periodically during the coming year with some questions, and will want to hear about your successes and the challenges you are facing, so please also pass along your thoughts on this to your section officers.
AIPG Membership Totals As of CPG / Active
CPG / Non-Practicing Prof. Member
Associate Member Young Professional Student Adjunct TOTALS
As of
5/5/15 4/1/2016 3,191 409 920 49 77
2,908 7,554
2,782 7,236
New Applicants and Members can now be found on the AIPG website at
http://aipg.org/membership/newapps- mems.html
Section News can now be found on the AIPG website at
http://aipg.org/ sections/
sectionnews.html
Attention Members
Please remember to notify AIPG National office of any changes you may have.
3,004 442 880 45 83
www.aipg.org
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