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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT


Tony Campisi , CAE


Remarks on Turning 50


I had a hard time deciding what to write about for this issue – the first issue of Community Assets marking our 50th year of building better communities. Maybe it’s because I’m over 50 myself and my creative process needs a boost!


So, to jump start my thinking, I went backwards – all the way back 20 years to what I wrote in the Spring 2005 issue of what was then just a quarterly newsletter, not a bi-monthly full-color magazine. It was in that issue that CAI first recognized our 30th anniversary and it was my 15th month in the job as Executive Director.


“You might be asking yourself how someone who has been involved with CAI for just over a year can possibly write an article reviewing thirty years of chapter history,” I wrote. And it was true. Back then, I was the new kid on the block.


As I flipped through that issue of Community Assets, the familiarity of what I saw struck me as really something else.


There were articles by Barbara Saxton and Stefan Richter, both of whom continue to serve as members of the Communications & Content Committee and who continue to write articles for this publication all these years later. There were advertisements from law firms and management companies and business partners who still advertise, still participate, and still support the Keystone Chapter. There were names of chapter volunteers and chapter sponsors that continue to contribute to CAI and the industry twenty years later.


So, while our chapter’s first president, Marc Brookman


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(see page 41), is correct when he says the more things change, the more they stay the same, the consistency that we see within the association known as Community Associations Institute is quite remarkable.


The relationships that have been formed over 50 years of networking and learning and collaboration among members are truly lasting. The camaraderie among members that we see at every event we host is remarkable. The stickiness of whatever it is that binds members and colleagues together as friends over the course of decades defines the very essence of community.


So, Happy 50th Birthday to us…to you and the community we have collectively built. I hope you’ll join us at an event this year to commemorate this milestone.


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