More specifically, I have been "elected" to a three-year term, from January 2023 through December 2025, as one of the nine Board of Directors, which manages the business and affairs of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association. I put "elected" in quotes because, ironically, no one actually voted for me. Only three candidates applied for the three open Director positions so, under the bylaws, those three applicants were appointed without the meaningless necessity and cost of a mail-in membership vote.
As long-timers here would suspect, I did not apply for this position based on my non-experience as a builder or restorer of wood canoes. A board directorship is a business position, and I felt that my corporate law and IBM management background, my lifetime participation in multiple aspects of canoeing countrywide, my ongoing daily relationships with the online canoe community via this website, plus the retirement time I now have available to further pursue my lifelong love of canoes and canoe history, could be helpful to the WCHA.
I suspect that several of our members here are currently, or have been, members of the WCHA. They can identify themselves if they wish.
As already posted in another thread, the annual WCHA Assembly will be back at Paul Smiths College this July, tentatively in conjunction with the USCA Freestyle Adirondack Symposium. I believe @Benson Gray is on the WCHA Assembly Planning Committee, so he would know more than I do at this point.
As long-timers here would suspect, I did not apply for this position based on my non-experience as a builder or restorer of wood canoes. A board directorship is a business position, and I felt that my corporate law and IBM management background, my lifetime participation in multiple aspects of canoeing countrywide, my ongoing daily relationships with the online canoe community via this website, plus the retirement time I now have available to further pursue my lifelong love of canoes and canoe history, could be helpful to the WCHA.
I suspect that several of our members here are currently, or have been, members of the WCHA. They can identify themselves if they wish.
As already posted in another thread, the annual WCHA Assembly will be back at Paul Smiths College this July, tentatively in conjunction with the USCA Freestyle Adirondack Symposium. I believe @Benson Gray is on the WCHA Assembly Planning Committee, so he would know more than I do at this point.
