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ANY ASSOCIATION.  IN THE JANUARY 2006 ISSUE OF QST WE UNVEILED A NEW LOOK
FEATURING THESE FOUR PILLARS.  YOUR RESPONSE AS MEMBERS WAS MOST
GRATIFYING.  YOU RECOGNIZED THAT THE CHANGES WERE NOT MERELY COSMETIC, AND
THAT THEY SIGNALED A DESIRE ON OUR PART TO MORE CLOSELY REFLECT THE ARRLS
MISSION IN THE PAGES OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP JOURNAL.  WHEN THE FOUR PILLARS
WERE CONCEIVED, WE RECOGNIZED THAT THEY COULD NOT BE FULLY DESCRIPTIVE OF
THE SCOPE AND BREADTH OF THE ARRL AS THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR AMATEUR
RADIO.  IT WAS ALSO OBVIOUS THAT SOME BASIC ELEMENTS OF AMATEUR RADIO ARE
PRESENT IN MORE THAN ONE PILLAR.  PILLARS ARE NOT SILOS THEY ARE THERE TO
SUPPORT THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE, NOT TO ISOLATE ACTIVITIES OR GROUPS FROM ONE
ANOTHER.  YET AS TIME WENT ON AND WE GAINED MORE EXPERIENCE AND FEEDBACK IT
BECAME APPARENT THAT ONE BASIC ELEMENT DESERVED ITS OWN PILLAR TECHNOLOGY.
TECHNOLOGY IS CERTAINLY A PART OF EVERY OTHER PILLAR.  AN APPRECIATION FOR,
AND CURIOSITY ABOUT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS ONE OF THE DEFINING
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