November 17, 2008 - The Society of Cleaning and Restoration
Technicians (www.scrt.org) held its Semi-annual Board of Directors meeting in
Atlanta, GA November 15, 2008. The
2009 Officers elected include:
- President Gary Glenn
- Operations V.P. Pete Duncanson
- Membership V.P. Tom Sherman
- Secretary Chris Taylor
- Treasurer Patti Savelle
Other board members elected include: Fritz Thompson, Ken
McIntosh, Mike Brummett, Bruce DeLoatch, Jeff Bishop, Ruth Travis and Lenny
Mingus. New to the SCRT Board is Don McNaulty. Advisory Board members elected are Carey Mitchell and Paul
Bakker.
“I am honored to be re-elected for a third term,” said Gary
Glenn. “And I am excited about the
prospect of growing the organization even more by adding additional chapters
throughout the U.S. and expanding our technical outreach by announcing three
new specialty divisions of our association. They are Minimum Moisture Cleaning, Bio-Hazard Remediation,
and Rug Cleaning and Identification.
Members with special interests in these subjects will be able to go to
the member’s only” section of the SCRT website and download technical articles
and other important information relating to these specific subjects. SCRT wants to continue to be the “go-to”
association for expert technical information.”
Plans for 2009 also include launching more regional or state
chapters in addition to the existing two in Michigan, two in Ohio and one each
in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, North Carolina and
Missouri/Kansas and offering more tangible benefits such as discounts for
conventions, classes and supplies to SCRT members.