IPMS/USA is proud to announce that Mike Oberholtzer has accepted the position of Treasurer.  He has been an IPMS member since the late 1980’s, served as treasurer for the IPMS Chicago Sprue Stretchers for more than 15 years, and is a senior national judge.  Mike has worked in all areas of banking from the teller line to Information Technology and at banks both small and gigantic.  He is currently a Senior Vice President and Senior Director of the Project Management Office at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, uses accounting software daily and is very comfortable working with auditing and accounting firms large and small.  We feel Mike is a good addition to the IPMS/USA organization and look forward to working with him.

As any member who has attended the past few Business Meetings at the National Convention could tell you, the Make and Take program has been an ongoing item of discussion in terms of cost and benefits to the Society. While the intent of MnT has always been to recruit new/young members, no correlation has been established between participation in a MnT and subsequent enrollments. In spite of this, the program was continued because of the local goodwill it was perceived to generate.

However, recent changes by our suppliers of Make and Take kits have severely limited the selection of kits, placed restrictions on their distribution, and significantly increased our costs. In fact, for the past several years, these costs have averaged around $10,000 annually, or looking at it another...

The 2016 National Contest Rules and Categories have been updated on the NCC web pages.

The results from the 2015 IPMS/USA Executive Board Election have been tallied and are as follows:

• President
  • Ron Bell - 321 votes
  • Bruce Drummond - 90 votes
  • Abstain - 2 votes
  • Write-in
    • Doug West - 1 vote
    • Doug Reed - 1 vote
    • Gil Hodges - 2 votes
• First VP
  • David Morrissette - 395 votes 
  • Abstain - 10 votes
  • Write-in
    • Art Loder - 1 vote
    • Don West - 1 vote
    • Rafael Hernandez - 1 vote
    • Richard Montgomery - 1 vote
    • Ron Bell - 1 vote
    •  Bruce Drummond - 1 vote
    • Joe Caputo - 1 vote
    • Anyone else - 1 vote

  Second VP

  • Mike Van...