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Volume 6 Issue 1	Spring Edition	April 2006
Volume 6 Issue 2	Summer Edition	July 2006
Volume 6 Issue 3	Fall Edition	November 2006
Volume 7 Issue 1	Convention Edition	February 2007

Division 3 President's Comments
By:  MSgt (USAF Ret) Raymond A. Wiltshire

Hope you all are doing well and had a great Holiday . With the New Year comes our AFSA Conventions. Our Division 3 Convention is right around the corner, 29-31 March 2007 at the Best Western, Asheville Biltmore. We will be electing a President and two Trustees this year. So far, Trustee Dick Pfeiffer has announced his intention to run, and I will announce today my intention to run also. I encourage anyone else interested in running for these positions to please accomplish a AFSA Form 100-10E, Resume of Candidate For Elective Office (which is available on the AFSA web page), and send it  to all Chapter Presidents and Executive Council Members prior to the Convention. Then bring 70 copies with you and give to the Convention Manager first thing on arrival so they can be placed in the delegate folders. I hope we have many people running for these positions. All the information for the Convention can be found at www.division3afsa.org.  I hope you are all selling ads to help defray the cost of the Convention. Hope to see many of you in Asheville .

    Coming up prior to our Convention will be the AFSA International Executive Council Meeting on 2 & 3 March. President McCauslin has asked all Division Presidents to attend rather than being represented by our DPR’s. Must be something important. I will give a complete briefing at the Convention in Asheville .

    It’s time to also start thinking about the upcoming International Convention in Orlando Fla. at the Caribe Royale 18-22 August 2007. This year we will be electing a President, Vice President, Active Duty Affairs Trustee, Legislative and Veterans Affairs, and a National Guard Trustee. There will also most likely be another briefing by the Organization Committee on ideas how to reorganize our Association. We must be there in force to voice our opinion on this important issue.

    We had another great year in Division 3. We had many recruits and retentions this year thanks to some dedicated folks and Chapters.  However, we have a lot of work to do. We all need to work a little harder to capture all our members that are leaving us. We Must do a better job on our retentions!!!  Please don’t get me wrong, we have done much better over the past few years, but we can all see the obvious, our recruiting has been excellent, but we can not continue to lose our members at the pace we have been. We can and must get better. Thanks to Rick Aldridge and his Membership Committee for their efforts. They have the tools and can help you get it done.

    Take care and thank you for being a part of the best Association that takes care of the best people. Now spread the word.

   Remember, we all must recruit and retain to sustain our Association.

                                                Ray