 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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