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  Second Vice President. The Venue Management School, as it is prop- erly called now, is one of the greatest achievements of our Association, - viduals entering the profession of venue management, but it has also spawned similar educational programs in Australia and Europe.   designed-as-we-went, and, somewhat, patterned after other schools taking place at Oglebay Park in Wheeling. Textbooks were in the form of enormous three-ring binders and we taught, using overhead trans- parencies instead of PowerPoint. I enjoyed the camaraderie, sharing of management practices, good times in Glass Works (and elsewhere), and the relative isolation that Oglebay Park provided. – Bob Mayer, CFE


Forever Memories Oh, the memories! Honored and proud to have been one of the orig- inal founding Board of Regents and longtime instructors. I am always thankful to give back to this amazing industry that gives so much to so many. Oh, the Wheeling Feeling! Forever memories. – Donna Dowless


Can We Get A Year Three?     IAVM’s crown jewel. I was new to the industry and was a sieve for the practical insight from instructors and appreciative of how they engaged with the students all week. In addition, it was a week of ex- changing ideas, camaraderie, new contacts, golf, and drinking. Every- one wanted a year three. As an instructor, I loved the competition for student ratings of in-


structors. It emphasized the importance of the content and delivery. I  unsure of myself that I read my whole presentation. You can imagine how I was rated. Even so, three years later I was invited back. Being an instructor allowed me to give back and share, like the membership did from the time I joined in 1983. – Pat Christenson


First Instructor, First Year A little over 30 years ago, I was asked to participate in this project. I     classes. At the time, I was heading up the Entertainment Division at Ogden Corp. I had been an arena manager in Rockford, Illinois, for    to the US Congress [Ways and Means Committee] representing the industry during the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Very few things in my career gave me more joy than my participa- tion in the Oglebay Project. Good people from all over the country working together to try to “pass on” our experiences, mistakes and all. We had great meetings deciding on curriculum. The atmosphere was


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incredibly collegial despite the fact that many of us had reputations as “divas.” We did a lot of “seat of the pants” in the early years. When we


arrived, we discovered we had not provided for an introduction to the exercise. My colleagues turned to me and asked if I would do it. I spent the evening in my room trying to whip up some remarks giving context to our industry. I tried to respect both our history and its pioneers. I still have the notes. So, my place in the archives of this “cluster” is that I was the very


          couple of times, I think). Knowing how far this project has come, and how for all of us it was


a work of the heart, is truly an endeavor I take pride in. I collaborated with the best and the brightest of this wonderful industry and we got a great outcome. Thomas Edison once said, “Vision, without execution,   for the kinship we gained along the way, and, if you want me to give the speech again … I’m ready!


– Doug Logan


Learning More Than Teaching  and teaching at VMS for 25 years. The school was one of my favorite IAVM activities and one of the most important to my career. The op- portunity to teach and learn in an environment surrounded by some of the best and brightest in our industry was really special. I have al- ways learned so much more than I have been able to teach. Helping to - tunity. I am grateful to all the smart and dedicated people who worked together to make the GI such an important part of VMS. I was invited to go back for an encore assignment and transition this year, and I am looking forward to my “one more year.” – Kevin Twohig, CFE


VMS: Very Many Special people  Australian strikes up conversation with mild mannered Canadian. They discover they are both headed to Wheeling, West Virginia. Shuttle driver loads up Kim, Craig and grandma. Hearing “for- eign” accents, our driver selects the scenic tri-state route for the tour- ists. Many miles, rusty steel mills, and roadside attractions later, having deposited grandma on her Wheeling front porch, we head up the hill to Oglebay (“bee” not “bay”), past grazing deer and lush green golf holes. The Canadian exhausted from hours of interpreting Australian to a West Virginian, and so begins a lifelong learning adventure. VMS for me stands for Very Many Special people, places, and       you missed our class skit that year, you missed Alex Trebek and Vanna 


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