We moved from a volunteer structure into the boardroom of one of our nation's most prestigious professional association management groups. It's not all done yet, but we have begun. We have made all the right moves. We are assembling the resources to stand newly capable in the face of our huge agenda. While celebrating and congratulating ourselves, let's also collectively acknowledge the nuts and bolts of it.
Transformation has a price.
The challenges remain ahead. With our new structure we are at last developing increased capacity to meet them. My commitment as your president, with the limitation of what is reasonably possible, is to keep you fully and frankly informed. Dr. Nan Dunne Boggs reminded me that this is a daunting goal. She, more than any other member of the Board, has kept her self in constant and time consuming communication with more members than any of us.