COAST GUARD INVESTIGATIVE ASSOCIATION FALL – 2011 NEWSLETTER President’s Message and to Jim Echoff for manning the Hello! I hope all is going very well for you registration desk for many hours on Friday. and your family! CGIS Director Dan Butler was our guest In many ways, the past year has been speaker at the dinner. He is a dynamic and somewhat challenging and also very successful for our association. Our first energetic person and is fully supportive of CGIA and was informative as to the CGIS challenge was to find a place to have our future. His biographic data is appended as reunion; secondly, arrange for a CGIA Attachment A. representative to attend CGIS Regional Meetings to present information and answer questions regarding our association; and Secondly, in January, CGIS Director, Jack Cornett, sent me the dates of the CGIS thirdly, get the Agent of the Year Award project off the ground. Fortunately, all three Regional meetings, which were scheduled between April and June of this year. Then, projects were accomplished with resounding in February Coast Guard Headquarters success. announced a new Director of CGIS, Mr. Daniel Butler, and Jack Cornett was The first challenge was accomplished in March with the signing of a contract with reassigned as the United States the Crowne Plaza Charleston Hotel in Representative to Interpol as an advisor for Charleston, S.C. This turned out to be an Environmental Impact issues. excellent choice as the meeting rooms were This change of command put the question of more than adequate and the hotel rooms a CGIA representative attending CGIS were outstanding. The hotel staff was very Regional Meetings in doubt. However, we helpful and always available when something came up that needed to be were able to have a representative appear at one meeting and as a result of that addressed. My thanks to Toby Chapeau, appearance two individuals immediately Jim Loesch, Jack Pressler, and Don Roark, applied for membership, and were approved. for their assistance in making the reunion We look forward to having a representative successful. Thanks also to George Finch for conducting the annual audit of our finances
COAST GUARD INVESTIGATIVE ASSOCIATION FALL – 2011 NEWSLETTER President’s Message Hello! I hope all is going very well for you and your family! In many ways, the past year has been somewhat challenging and also very successful for our association. Our first challenge was to find a place to have our reunion; secondly, arrange for a CGIA representative to attend CGIS Regional Meetings to present information and answer questions regarding our association; and thirdly, get the Agent of the Year Award project off the ground. Fortunately, all three projects were accomplished with resounding success. The first challenge was accomplished in March with the signing of a contract with the Crowne Plaza Charleston Hotel in Charleston, S.C. This turned out to be an excellent choice as the meeting rooms were more than adequate and the hotel rooms were outstanding. The hotel staff was very helpful and always available when something came up that needed to be addressed. My thanks to Toby Chapeau, Jim Loesch, Jack Pressler, and Don Roark, for their assistance in making the reunion successful. Thanks also to George Finch for conducting the annual audit of our finances and to Jim Echoff for manning the registration desk for many hours on Friday. CGIS Director Dan Butler was our guest speaker at the dinner. He is a dynamic and energetic person and is fully supportive of CGIA and was informative as to the CGIS future. His biographic data is appended as Attachment A. Secondly, in January, CGIS Director, Jack Cornett, sent me the dates of the CGIS Regional meetings, which were scheduled between April and June of this year. Then, in February Coast Guard Headquarters announced a new Director of CGIS, Mr. Daniel Butler, and Jack Cornett was reassigned as the United States Representative to Interpol as an advisor for Environmental Impact issues. This change of command put the question of a CGIA representative attending CGIS Regional Meetings in doubt. However, we were able to have a representative appear at one meeting and as a result of that appearance two individuals immediately applied for membership, and were approved. We look forward to having a representative
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