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ARRL Northwestern Division Director Greg Milnes, W7OZ, SK. |
Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF, will complete the year remaining on Milnes' term as Northwestern Division Director. |
NEWINGTON, CT, Dec 19, 2005--ARRL Northwestern Division Director Greg E. Milnes, W7OZ (ex-W7AGQ), of Hillsboro, Oregon, died December 17. He was 66. Milnes reportedly had suffered a heart attack a day earlier while returning home from a trip.
"It's a great sadness that we all feel here at the League at the passing of Greg Milnes, our Northwestern Division Director," ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, said today. "I've worked with Greg for a number of years, and I know he was conscientious and tried to do the best for Amateur Radio, and it's going to be a real loss on our Board of Directors."
Northwestern Division Vice Director Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF, of Vancouver, Washington, becomes the Director and will fill the remainder of Milnes' term, which runs through 2006. Haynie is expected to appoint someone to fill the vacant Vice Director's chair in the near future--in all likelihood prior to the ARRL Board of Directors meeting January 20-21.
An ARRL Life Member and a retired Oregon Circuit Court judge, Milnes has served as Northwestern Division Director for seven years. He acceded to the post in December 1998 after then-Director Mary Lou Brown, NM7N, died unexpectedly, and he had since been re-elected to new terms.
Milnes was known to many in his Division as the long-time master of ceremonies for the SeaPac Northwestern Division Convention banquet. During the past year, he had served on the ARRL Board's Administrative and Finance and Elections and Ethics committees, and he previously chaired and was a member of the Volunteer Resources Committee. Milnes also was a member of the ARRL Foundation Board of Directors. A member of DXCC, he belonged to the Western Washington and Willamette Valley DX clubs. He also was a member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association and the International Friendship Amateur Radio Society.
ARRL CEO David Sumner also expressed his sadness at Milnes' untimely passing. "I came to know and appreciate Greg best on two trips to the Northwestern Division," he said. "The first was for Mary Lou Brown's memorial service shortly after she died in eerily similar circumstances (they were both stricken at an airport on their way home from trips). The second was to the convention in Seaside, Oregon in 2004 when Greg made a special point of taking me to see Rush Drake, W7RM, for one last time."
Survivors include his wife, Loretta. A memorial service will be held December 30 in Hillsboro, Oregon. The family has invited memorial contributions to the ARRL Foundation, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111.
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