executive director’s report tony campisi
SAVE THE DATE!
Don’t Miss our 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration October 8, 2015 | Down Town Club, Philadelphia PA
What a year it was. The Pisburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl! The Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup! And on NBC, Saturday Night Live made its debut.
I’m not talking about 2014 of course. I’m talking about 1975— the year our chapter was incorporated and commenced programming as one of the earliest chapters of Community Associaons Instute.
Gerald Ford was President of the United States of America. Vietnam was over. Betamax and Rubik’s Cubes were launched. A curmudgeon named Archie Bunker came into our living rooms on the top rated television show in the naon for ve years running. And a guy named Steve Jobs started work on the prototype for the rst Apple Computer.
Who could have predicted back then how our world would change in the next 40 years? Vietnam forever changed the naon. Steve Jobs forever changed the world.
I turned just six years old in 1975 and had no idea what a community associaon was. The rst me I ever heard of a common interest ownership community was when Charlie Brown invited his friends to Thanksgiving dinner at his grandmother’s condominium on “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!”
A lot has happened between 1975 and today. The chapter has grown to the 4th largest chapter among 61 chapters worldwide. Pennsylvania’s legislature adopted the Uniform Condominium Act in 1980 and the Uniform Planned Community Act in 1996. Some of our chapter’s earliest leaders help author those Acts. Our chapter, run by volunteers for the rst 15 years or so, hired its rst sta person around 1990. The number of community associaons skyrocketed, especially since the turn of the century. The Western PA Chapter of CAI merged with the Greater Delaware Valley Chapter of CAI in 1998. The Northeast PA Chapter did the same in 2002 and the statewide organizaon was born.
As we celebrate this milestone anniversary, we’ll take a look
back...at the signicant events in chapter history and at the members and leaders in the industry who helped the organizaon grow and prosper.
We’ll also look ahead at the next great challenges we will face as an organizaon and as stakeholders in what has become a dominant form of living in the United States in in our region.
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We’ll cap it all o with a gala celebraon at Philadelphia’s Down Town Club on October 8, 2015. So save the date and plan to join us for our 40th anniversary celebraon!
Rest assured, however, that retrospecves are not all that we will engage in this year. Taking a look at our history, and the journey we’ve made, is fun but it is also useful in helping to shape the next year, the next decade, the next milestones.
The chapter sta, board of directors, and our over 100 volunteers are always looking for that next big idea. The new piece of technology to make our lives and jobs easier. The next program to help beer educate our members. The next tool or resource to help build beer communies and make the next 40 years as fullling as the last.
And, of course, we will sll be looking forward to the next me Philadelphia brings home the Stanley Cup...whenever THAT might be!
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