{"id":490,"date":"2021-06-22T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/?p=490"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:14:49","slug":"bill-stephens-elected-new-president-of-fm-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/2021\/06\/22\/bill-stephens-elected-new-president-of-fm-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Stephens Elected New President of FM PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<IMG height=512 width=428 src=\"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/images\/Bill Headshot.jpg\"> <BR><BR>\n\n<H3> President&#8217;s Message <br><BR>\n\nby Interim President Bill Stephens, PG <br><BR>\n\n<H4> After many years of faithful and effective service, immediate past President Joe Marchesani decided it was time for him to take a break from his leadership role at FM-PA. We wish him all the luck in his future endeavors. The Board members present at a recent meeting voted unanimously to install me as interim President until the official meeting at the annual symposium. I hit the ground running with the idea that we needed to get prepared for what will likely be a &#8220;Hybrid&#8221; Symposium, part in person and part Zoom, at a totally new facility. In our last in-person symposium, we had an issue develop with the availability of the venue we had at F&amp;M for many years. Last year, with the COVID shutdown, we were forced to adapt and put on a symposium entirely remotely using Zoom; with the effective leadership of your Board of Directors, that symposium went off without a hitch. Now we are tasked with not only finding a new venue, but one where we can have in person and remote attendance for the Fall 2021 Symposium. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Message by Interim President Bill Stephens, PG After many years of faithful and effective service, immediate past President Joe Marchesani decided it was time for him to take a break from his leadership role at FM-PA. We wish him all the luck in his future endeavors. The Board members present at a recent meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasloto.com\/FM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}