| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION University of Utah 1990 David Mead Utah Power Light 1991 Alton Frazier Division of Natural Resources 1992 Don LeFevre Latter-day Saints Church 1993 Val Oveson Lieutenant Governor 1994 Don Gale KSL Television 1995 Gary Wood Historical Researcher The importance of Associate Members to UPA was perhaps best described by Mark Fuellenbach of the Richfield Reaper while presiding atconvention session which wastribute to that group He said This morningbreakfast honors our Associate Members forreason Itperhaps the only time of the year when all the active members of the associa tion takefew minutes to reflect on the part Associate Members play in our organization And Associate Members are mighty important to us They may not sit in our board meetings or get involved in our internal politics and unless we ask em to they seldom help us make future plans he continued But they have con siderable interest in what we re doing or thinking of doing And canremembertime when an Associate Member didngive us his or her help on anything we asked them to do whether it was simply advice or lendinghand in some convention activity or giving usfinancial lift if the project wetaken on waslittle more than we could handle And whether or not active members realize it the conventions we attend benefitwhole lot from the cash transfu sions provided by our Associate Members When you have little time to digest it takeclose look at the program and read the names of those Associates who are sponsoring or cosponsoring meals hospitality suites parts of our agenda and plaques in our Better Newspaper Contest Fuellenbach went on to say Thereanother plus to that toogood many of em not only provide those sponsorships but join us in convention activities That increases the numbers at the various functions and it also provides an opportunity to visit with these people who are interested enough in our business that they ll take the time to join us 318 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
