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In Passing, The Impacts Of


Ray Ward And Bill Cunningham Continue To Live


Ray Ward, CVE, and Bill Cunningham, CVE, are forever etched


as two pioneers and legends in the public assembly venue in- dustry. The two close friends passed away on May 2 and May 8, respectively, perhaps fitting as Ward once worked for Cunning- ham at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum before assuming the top position at the venue. Cunningham served as president of then IAAM in 1973-74, while Ward held the honors in 1988- 89. Those who knew the men share some fond recollections on these pages. “My Venue Management School and Graduate Institute experience was made complete by Ray Ward’s wealth of knowledge. Sake shots in heaven my friend. – Paul Cathey, CMP, AT&T Performing Arts Center. In May 1990, I took my son with his nine-year-old Little League team to the Oakland Coliseum. I left all of our game tickets in my van at the Concord BART Station. I was escorted by a ballpark secu- rity guard to meet Ray Ward. Ray generously replaced our 10 tickets with ten seats closer to the  Services AT&T Park. “Ray was always ready


to share, to enlighten, and to make sure knowledge was conveyed. For that I am thankful.” --John Siehl, CVE, VenuWorks.


“Do or do not, there is


no try.” Ray was the Yoda of Venue Management School at Oglebay. Much wisdom lost we have.” --Kim Bedier, CVE, Tacoma Venues. “Ray Ward has clearly


earned the multitude of ac- colades written by so many about him over his long career. Personally, I found Ray to be an energizer for strategic thinking, and it was that that I needed so much as a 37-year-old when president of IAAM (84-85). Ray helped me tremendously. He had a passion for the association and for doing the right thing to ensure fairness, continuity, establishing objectives, setting priorities, and thoughtfully interjecting new ideas. From the time we worked closely together when I chaired the Long-


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Range Planning in 1981, Ray’s knowledge of IAAM’s past was ex- traordinary and served to help not reinventing the wheel, i.e., but mov-  process were beyond description. Ray went on to become President, and one of our greatest leaders, teachers, and mentors. He continued giving to the industry afterwards and until he couldn’t. His guidance was golden to many. His friendship was rock solid with industry repre- sentatives having little experience to those of us with a half century of it. I spoke to Ray’s wife Rose on nearly every stop in San Francisco the last few years as I went back and forth to Asia during the time of Ray’s deteriorating health. I was always thrilled to hear from Rose that he     days. Rose was his angel and remains so.”  Venue Management Ltd., Shenyang New World Expos (Management) Ltd., Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.


“Bill Cunningham will


be remembered by a small percentage of our mem- bers. However,


important


to know was that Bill had an extraordinary impact on the IAVM. I had the hon- or of writing about him in the last issue of FM, with no indication at that time of his serious health issues. Using extracts from my ar- ticle, Bill was a true indus- try visionary and we were fortunate that he became an IAAM president (73-74). Almost immediately, the as- sociation’s wheels of change began to rotate faster than ever. In my opinion, Bill


ran for IAAM’s president because he had intently observed during his early years within IAAM and at the time of his election that he had      - es. Way ahead of his time, he clearly saw the need for collaboration,   change he made in my opinion in 1973, cutting to the chase, was that


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