SB QST @ ARL $ARLB069 ARLB069 Section Manager Election Results Announced ZCZC AG69 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 69 ARLB069 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT November 20, 2002 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB069 ARLB069 Section Manager Election Results Announced ARRL West Central Florida Section Manager Dave Armbrust, AE4MR, narrowly won re-election as ballots were counted in three contested races. Armbrust--the first and only person to serve as WCF SM--edged out Gerald Dee Turner, N2MNC, by just two votes--490 to 488. Elsewhere, results were not nearly as close. In South Carolina, incumbent SM Patricia Hensley, N4ROS, lost out to James Boehner, N2ZZ, of Aiken, in her bid for a new term. Boehner, an ARRL Life Member and a physician, outpolled Hensley 431 to 239. In Western Pennsylvania, incumbent John Rodgers, N3MSE, won re-election 485 to 410 over David Leiser, K3NPX. ARRL Field and Educational Services staff members counted and verified all ballots November 19 at ARRL Headquarters. Incumbent ARRL SMs in six other ARRL sections did not face opposition and have been declared elected for new two-year terms. They are Phil Temples, K9HI, Eastern Massachusetts; Dale Bagley, K0KY, Missouri; Bill McCollum, KE0XQ, Nebraska; George Tranos, N2GA, New York City-Long Island; Thomas Dick, KF2GC, Northern New York; and Jean Priestley, KA2YKN, Southern New Jersey. Terms of office for all successful candidates begin January 1, 2003. Kansas also will get a new SM on January 1. Orlan Cook, W0OYH, has announced his retirement from the Kansas Section Manager's position as of the end of this year after serving for five years. ARRL Field and Educational Services Manager Rosalie White, K1STO, has appointed Ron Cowan, KB0DTI, of La Cygne to complete the year remaining in the present term of office. Cowan has been serving as an Assistant Section Manager and as Section Traffic Manager. NNNN /EX