PRESIDENT'S PAGE

My term as IFT President is nearing the end. When I accepted the nomination to run some two years ago, little did I know what this office entailed. And who could have projected the events of September 11? I officially took office on September 1, taking the baton from Mary Schmidl, and began to direct an aggressive program full of vim and vigor. But ten days later, the world changed, businesses and organizations were forced to alter plans, and the finally admitted recession seemed to catalyze a s…