ASTA Announces Official Election Results

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. October 14, 2008

ALEXANDRIA, VA, July 24, 2008. ASTA announced today the following ASTA members have been certified by Mary Peters, CTC, ASTA National Vice President and Secretary, as elected to serve in the respective offices indicated.

Newly elected national directors-at-large who will serve for a two-year term, in alphabetical order:

o Lila Ford, CTC

o Mike McCulloh

o Chris Russo

o Kari Thomas

o Carol Wagner

National Directors serving the second year of their two-year terms include:

o George Delanoy

o Lynda Maxwell, CTC

o Irene C. Ross, CTC

o K. Hope Wallace, CTC

The full Board of Directors will convene in September and will elect from the above nine directors-at-large the new Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is composed of the President, Vice President & Secretary, Treasurer, the Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) President and ASTA's Executive Vice President and COO (non-voting).

ASTA's governance structure calls for a Board of Directors that consists of nine national directors elected at-large for two-year, staggered terms, three chapter presidents, the chair of the International Chapter Presidents' Council (ICPC), and two Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) members. At its recent meeting, the Chapter Presidents Council elected the following chapter presidents to sit on the Board: Scott Pinheiro (Northern California Chapter), John Lovell (Michigan Chapter) and Pat Byrne (Upstate New York Chapter).

The following is a list of uncontested chapter positions:

Arizona Chapter

President - Laura C. Rodriguez-Verbera

Vice President - Vacant

Secretary - Pat Fulton

Treasurer - Donna L. Delpier, CTC

Central and North Florida Chapter

President - Bob Robar

1st Vice President - Ingeborg Gaitch

2nd Vice President - Lorene Stone

Secretary - Annette C. Palmer

Treasurer - Nancy Pennington, CTC

Midwest Chapter

President - Joanne Gardner, CTC

1st Vice President - Jorge E. Sanchez

2nd Vice President - John Werner

Secretary - Marilyn Allegra

Treasurer - Laurette Karuhn

Missouri Valley Chapter

President - Nora Faifer

Vice President - Wilson Doak

Secretary - Vacant

Treasurer - Cheryl Kent

New Jersey Chapter

President - Ricky J. Ardis

1st Vice President - David Spinelli

2nd Vice President - Mark Shapiro

Secretary - Charlene Ocone-Pecora

Treasurer - Patricia McCoy

Pacific Northwest Chapter

President - Alex Trettin

Vice President - Robert Roach

Secretary - Teri L. Trettin

Treasurer - Beverly Schukar

Rocky Mountain Chapter

President - Joanne L. Thompson

1st Vice President - Jane E. Folsom

2nd Vice President - Tim Lange, CTC, CTIE

Secretary - Lisa A. Maddux, CTC

Treasurer - Rich Sattizahn

South Florida Chapter

President - David Gedansky

Vice President - Mike Greenwald

Secretary - Daniel Itzcovich

Treasurer - Rosa M. Montes

Southeast Chapter

President - Susan Aft

Vice President - Pauline Rogers

Secretary - Ruth Wagner Miller, CTC, MCC

Treasurer - Rolfe D. Duggar, CTC

Director 1 - Linda Nelson

Director 2 - Arthur Salus

Director 3 - Janet G. Brown

Southern California Chapter

President - Daniel Genung

Vice President - Jason Coleman, CTC, ECCS, CLS, DS

Secretary - Donald Mentzer

Treasurer - Chris Van Beveren

Southwest Chapter

President - Frances A. (Fran) Lindsey

Vice President - Robbi J. Hamida

Secretary - Melinda Kelly

Treasurer - Yolanda Meador

Upper Midwest Chapter

President - Wendy Weigel

Vice President - Lori Raduenz, CTC

Secretary - Bonnie Lee

Treasurer - Nancy Wintermute

The mission of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) is to facilitate the business of selling travel through effective representation, shared knowledge and the enhancement of professionalism. ASTA seeks a retail travel marketplace that is profitable and growing and a rewarding field in which to work, invest and do business.