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Dear WTS Members and Friends,
The
2006-2008 International Board and Committee Chairs are excited to be
serving WTS over the next two
years. The board members and committee chairs are listed in this
newsletter. Here are some highlights of what your new board is
working on:
• Congratulations and sincere
thanks to the
Dallas/Ft.
Worth chapter, WTS staff
members, and others who helped to make the 2006 WTS
Annual Conference a success.
• Now that we are transitioning
from a volunteer/management company to an executive director/staff
organization, we need to understand how the changes will affect
WTS and prioritize what we need to
accomplish. As a result, we have embarked upon a strategic planning
process and hired a facilitator to help us. The strategic planning
process involves all WTS
entities: Chapters, WTSS,
and the Advisory Board. The goal is to present the strategic plan
to the membership in May 2007.
•There are 22
US
gubernatorial elections being held on Tuesday, November 7th and WTS has 29 chapters in 17 of those
states. Beverly Mason and Sophie Hartshorn, the International
Appointments Co-Chairs, are starting the process to identify potential
candidates for gubernatorial appointment.
•We certified our 39th chapter
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WTS Central Virginia. They
are 23 members strong. Please welcome them to the WTS family. Cynthia Hughes Adler,
International Chapter Development Chair, helped the Central Virginia
Chapter obtain its certification and continues to work with other
potential WTS chapters.
•
WTS
will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2007 and Jamie Rennert, International Director, is
leading the task force that is formulating the celebrations. Stay
tuned and hear what they have in store for us.
• The 2007
WTS Conference is being held in San Diego, May
2nd-4th. The conference theme is "Reinventing the
Wheel." Linda Culp and David Schumacher, the 2007 Conference
Co-Chairs, are promising a spectacular event. If you are interested
in presenting a paper at the conference, abstracts should be submitted by
September 30th.
We
look forward to working with each of you to enhance the WTS experience for members and to further
advancing women in the transportation industry.
Sincerely,
Ann L. Koby
International President
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