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FEATURE Page 6 Annual Membership Meeting BICSI HIGHLIGHTS AND BOD INDUCTIONS In addition, the 2019 Board of Directors was announced to the membership. Congratulations to: • U.S. Northeast Region Director Matthew Odell, RCDD • Incumbent U.S. South-Central Region Director Mark Reynolds, RCDD • Newly Elected U.S. Southeast Region Director Lee Renfroe, RCDD, ESS, TECH • Incumbent U.S. Western Region Director Pat McMurray, RCDD, DCDC, NTS • Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer John D. Clark Jr., CAE • President Jeffrey Beavers, RCDD, OSP, CFHP • President-Elect Todd Taylor, RCDD, NTS, OSP • Incumbent Secretary Carol Everett Oliver, RCDD, ESS • Treasurer Robert "Bob" Erickson, RCDD, NTS, OSP, WD, RTPM • Newly Elected Canadian Region Director Fernando Neto, RCDD • Incumbent Global Region Director Honorico "Rick" Ciordia, RCDD, DCDC, RTPM, PE • U.S. North-Central Region Director Chris Scharrer, RCDD, NTS, OSP One of the high points of every Winter Conference is the Annual Membership Meeting. Here new BICSI board members are inducted, and the current president provides an overview of BICSI's accomplishments from the past year. BICSI's 2018 successes highlighted by President Jeff Beavers, RCDD, OSP, CFHP, included: • Provisional License approval from the Florida Department of Education's Commission for Independent Education for our Cabling Installation, Design and Project Management Programs • Release of the 6th edition Outside Plant Design Reference Manual, which won the 2017-2018 Award of Merit in the Society for Technical Communications (STC) Technical Communications Competition • Creation of a new Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region • Launch of BICSI Project Refresh—a complete renovation of BICSI World Headquarters.