When the ARRL
board of directors meets in Connecticut next month, there will be several new
faces at the table, as well as the "back bench" for vice directors.
In
addition to this being the first board meeting for new CEO Howard Michel,
WB2ITX, there will be new directors present from the Hudson,
New England, Northwestern, Roanoke
and Rocky Mountain Divisions. Three of those new directors defeated incumbents,
while one moved up from the vice director's chair to succeed a director who
resigned and the fifth was elected in a division in which the incumbent was not
seeking re-election. There will also be two new vice directors.
This represents
a change in leadership in one-third of the ARRL's 15 geographic divisions.