b'Change your opinions, keep your principles; change your leaves, keep your roots.~Victor Hugo PRESIDENTSId like to close this out by thanking all ourcontractor and associate members, the Association MESSAGEOffice, as well as all the committee chairs, pastpresidents, and members of the board for theirongoing efforts in keeping this association running.Greeting MICA members! Have an amazing summer I hope to see everyone in Omaha this fall!My thanks go out to Doug and Diane for helping make our June convention great. My personalapologies to those of you suffering the altitude but I dont think we could have asked for better weather.Sincerely, The location was beautiful and seeing anyone in theLee Stuckenschmidt,events and meetings was great! If you did not takeMICA President the opportunity to feed the giraffes at the zoo, you missed an opportunity. A little bit about myself; like at least some of the other members of this association I came to this industry through family and the industry has done a lot to shape the way I look at things in my life. Who else would enjoy the experience of looking up into an exposed ceiling and grading the work? I am (fairly) certain my wife Debi has stopped rolling her eyes when I make a comment. I have been livingMICALEADERSHIP: and consuming the idea of mechanical insulation for as long as I can remember. My official career in thisPresidentLee Stuckenschmidt,industry started by doing warehouse work forSystems Undercover, Eaton, CO. Systems Undercover during summer breaks doingPresident-ElectKevin Rambo, all the sorts of work seemingly purpose-built for aF & H Insulation Sales & Services, Kechi, KS. teenaged gopher. Since starting in the dirt and dust of our inventory, I have benefitted and grown inVice-PresidentCarl Petersen,many ways from the opportunities and experiencesDelta Thermal Services, Mankato, MN. of this industry for which I am truly grateful.Associate PresidentLouis Walton,Proto Corporation, Hewitt, TX. Many of you know my parents, Ray and Deb. Ray was the 49th president of MICA in 2005/6. As oneMICABOARD OF DIRECTORS: of the kids who grew up in the industry attendingTed Nickel, Mavo Systems, Inc., White Bear Lake, MNMICA events, I was and remain honored to haveMatt Lillig, Cornerstone Services Group - NE,been asked to sit on the board and to now becomeOmaha , NEthe president of MICA for the next year. Steve Sack,Sprinkmann Insulation, Inc, Peoria, ILOn that idea, my thoughts on a theme for my yearMatt Hymer, Midwest Materials Co., as President revolve around the ideal of respectingJoplin, MO the traditions that have brought us here while weTim Hughey, Colorado Mechanical Insulation, continue our evolution as an association. TraditionsEnglewood, CO. respect those who built the world before us but change is inevitable but how we direct those Adam Sease, Gagnon Inc., Bettendorf, IAchanges continue to define what we may become. Gordon Vierck, Luse Thermal Technologies, Aurora, IL3'