President
Haynie Wins Third Term, Other Officers Re-Elected
 Front (L-R): ARRL Vice President Kay Craigie, N3KN, ARRL
CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, and ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP. Rear (standing
L-R): ARRL Membership Services Manager Wayne Mills, N7NG, ARRL General Counsel
Chris Imlay, W3KD, and ARRL First Vice President Joel Harrison, W5ZN. |
 ARRL President Haynie displays a "Don't yell at me, I'm
a volunteer" pin that Central Division Director Dick Isely, W9GIG, distributed
to Haynie, the two ARRL VPs and his fellow Board members. |
NEWINGTON, CT, Jan 20, 2004--Meeting January
16 and 17 in Windsor, Connecticut, the ARRL Board of Directors re-elected
President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, to a third two-year term. There were no other nominees
for the post, and the Board expressed its confidence in Haynie by re-electing
him without opposition. Haynie, who lives in Dallas, Texas, succeeded Rod
Stafford, W6ROD, as the League's volunteer leader in 2000. The Board re-elected
Stafford as ARRL Vice President for International Affairs.
Winning new, two-year terms without
opposition were ARRL First Vice President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, and Second Vice
President Kay Craigie, N3KN. Board members agreed with a proposal to eliminate
the third vice president's position being vacated by Fried Heyn, WA6WZO, who
was named as an ARRL Honorary Vice President. The Board indicated it was doing
away with the third VP slot as a cost-saving measure and because the position
was considered superfluous--positions that Heyn also endorsed.
Other ARRL officers elected without
opposition were CEO and Board Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ; Treasurer Jim
McCobb, W1LLU; Chief Financial Officer Barry Shelley, N1VXY; Chief Development
Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH, and Chief Operating Officer Mark Wilson, K1RO. The
Board created a new position of Chief Technology Officer and named Paul
Rinaldo, W4RI, to fill it. Rinaldo heads the League's Technical Relations
Office in Fairfax, Virginia.
The Board agreed to up the number of
directors on the ARRL Executive Committee and also named members to the panel.
Chosen to sit on the EC were Directors Rick Roderick, K5UR, Delta Division; Jay
Bellows, K0QB, Dakota Division; Walt Stinson, W0CP, Rocky Mountain Division;
Frank Fallon, N2FF, Hudson Division, and Dick Isely, W9GIG, Central Division.
Haynie chairs the EC, and Harrison and
Sumner sit on the panel as non-voting members.
In addition, the Board filled three expiring
seats on the ARRL Foundation Board. Fallon, Stinson and Southeastern Division
Director Frank Butler, W4RH, were elected. Stinson is a newcomer to the
Foundation Board.
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