April 19th, 2026

Eboard & Staff Quarterly Meeting

Present: John Noack (JN), Dave Morrissette (DM), David Lockhart (DL), Eugenie Taylor Ray (ETR), Chris Bucholtz (CB), Phil Perry (PP), Joe Terry (JT), David Knights (DK), Scott Hackney (SH), Nancy Kennedy-Hackney (NKH), Nate Pollock (NP), Eric Aitala (EA)

Absent: Mike Oberholtzer, Steven Broughall

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order on April 19th, 2026 at 7:00pm EST by John Noack.

Special Presentation by Will Kuhrt on Juniors/Youth Clubs

Will Kuhrt discussed the success and challenges of the Juniors Club he has started in his area. The club has grown from 3 to 16 members over the last year and has shown the potential for these clubs. He will be conducting a seminar at the 2026 Convention on what they have done and how other chapters can also start Juniors Clubs. Discussion was held on what else IPMS/USA could do to assist in this effort, and many good ideas were brought forward.

Staff Updates and Reports

NP – Nothing new to report at this time. JN asked NP to get with MO on reviewing membership statistics for a project he would like to do.

EA – Website continues to run well, will need to update the forums at some point. Continuing to make progress on the new website. Email issues seem to be resolved for the moment.

NKH – Current membership status is 5218 members. Continues to field questions related to the Convention as well as normal member issues such as logging into WA. Worked on resolving the email issues that were causing emails to go to spam. Continuing to train new assistant on Office Manager duties. Will have 25 & 50 year pins completed by end of May hopefully. As Event Manager has been continuing to attend zoom meetings with convention team and preparing events for them. Has been training the registration team.

Eboard Roundtable/Action Item Updates

PP – Judges have made a “what judges look for” presentation, would like to have it available at Nationals for people to view.

DM – Has contacted reviewers with late reviews to get those turned in. Continuing to get a variety of new things in for review.

SH – Has zoom meetings scheduled to discuss certain parts of the convention with those involved. Mark Stevens has rebuilt the model registration system and it looks really good. Will be holding a “How to do a National Convention Talk” at Fort Wayne this year. Still need more trophy sponsors and to sell more ads for the convention journal.

JT – Responding to emails that come in from the general inquiries form on the website. Has been meeting with the Tiger Meet Coordinator to help coordinate with SIGs. Looking into a possible SIG Leader get-together at Nationals. Encouraged SIG Leaders to participate and support the 2026 Convention through trophy packages and convention journal ads. Worked with EA to establish a SIG Leaders forum section, it is currently up and running with SIG leaders added to it. COI/COE forms have been completed by all Eboard members and returned.

DK – Just returned from the AMPS National Convention. Has been in talks with a company about inserting IPMS/USA fliers into their boxes.

DL – 22 Regional awards completed, needs assistance with the national awards. Members of the Eboard volunteered to help with certain categories. Award submissions continue to be limited, with very few being submitted. Two new chapters have been formed: Tuesday Night Model Club, Cottage Grove, OR and Memphis Belle Chapter in Memphis, TN. Two new potential chapters are also in the works. Certificate of Insurance has been going out, has created a poster for them. Planning a social for the RC’s and Eboard at the National Convention and a breakfast with just the RC’s.

ETR – Some behind the scenes changes by Meta for Facebook that they have been having to deal with. Facebook posts seem to be getting less views, interaction with posts will help with this. This is also affecting the Nationals page, more posts and interaction needed there to keep the information in front of the members. Has been putting together the photography team for the convention.

CB – Journal is on track and on time. Staff continues to do a great job and are looking at some new ideas for each issue that will be discussed. Continuing to work with staff on style guides to improve consistency across the journal.

JN – Nothing to report, expressed his appreciation for all the hard work everyone has been putting in.

Nothing Further the meeting was adjourned at 8:27pm EST.

The next meeting is scheduled for May 17th, 2026 at 7:00pm EST via Zoom.