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The 2023 IPMS National Contest Awards Ceremony posted on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/YqJiuR_qp-g?si=wMUwEMH2qYRGB9Qb

These minutes reflect the discussion during the 3rd Quarter 2023 Executive Board meeting held on Sunday, July 9, 2023.

Minutes

  • DL called the meeting to order at 6:03PM, CST.
  • DL requested committee reports from the IPMS/USA Office Manager, Membership and Event Sys Admin, Military & Veterans Services, and the NCC.

 Staff Reports

  • Office Manager’s Report (emailed to the board)...
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To all members of IPMS/USA, and the greater scale modeling hobby community:

Our President, Dave Lockhart, recently offered an editorial intended to emphasize the supportive partnership history of IPMS/USA within the hobby, to motivate scale modelers to consider the benefits offered by joining our organization, and to urge the membership to more fully participate in all that IPMS/USA has to offer.  Unfortunately, his choice of words clearly missed the intent, and he offered a sincere apology upon realizing the mistake.

Our hobby is rapidly growing. It’s also expanding exponentially in subject matter and technology to include a broad new generation of modelers.  We realize that messaging is generational in its nature and takes time and contemplation to fully...

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These minutes reflect the discussion during a Special Session Executive Board meeting held on Thursday, June 8, 2023.

Minutes

  • DL called the meeting to order at 7:09PM, CDT.
  • DL addressed the Board regarding his President’s Message published in the March/April 2023 Journal.  DL expressed his sincere apology to the Board and to the full membership of the Society for his poor choice of wording in the message....
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