SB QST @ ARL $ARLB016 ARLB016 Vice Director election set in Roanoke Division ZCZC AG16 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 16 ARLB016 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 25, 2006 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB016 ARLB016 Vice Director election set in Roanoke Division The only contest in the current election cycle for ARRL Director and Vice Director seats is in the Roanoke Division. Petitions for the vice director seat have been filed by Patricia Hensley, N4ROS, and the incumbent, the Rev Leslie Shattuck, K4NK. The ARRL Ethics and Election Committee has declared Hensley and Shattuck eligible to run. No challengers stepped forward to face Roanoke Division Director Dennis Bodson, W4PWF, or incumbent directors or vice directors in four other ARRL divisions. Ballots will go out by October 1 to all full ARRL Roanoke Division members in good standing as of September 10. Votes will be tallied at ARRL Headquarters and the winner announced on November 17. Current office holders in the five affected divisions filed valid petitions by the August 18 deadline to run for new three-year terms. In addition to Bodson, the Ethics and Election Committee has declared these unopposed candidates elected: In the Central Division, Director Dick Isely, W9GIG, and Vice Director Howard Huntington, K9KM; in the Hudson Division, Director Frank Fallon, N2FF, and Vice Director Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF; in the New England Division, Director Tom Frenaye, K1KI, and Vice Director Mike Raisbeck, K1TWF, and in the Northwestern Division, Director Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF, and Vice Director Bill Sawders, K7ZM. In 2000 Hensley topped a field of three candidates to become South Carolina SM. She lost her bid for a second term two years later. Shattuck, who chairs the ARRL Board of Directors' Historical Committee, was tapped to fill the Vice Director's seat in 2000 after then-Roanoke Division Director John Kanode, N4MM, was elected as a vice president and Bodson moved into the director's seat. Shattuck, who also served as South Carolina Section Manager (1997-2000), was elected Roanoke Division Vice Director in his own right later that year. Successful candidates for the 2007-2009 term take office January 1. NNNN /EX