efam 2009

Kansas Division at the

IAAP Education Forum and Annual Meeting

July 26-30, 2009Minneapolis, MN

Heading for lunch after registering

Convention Center Skyway

Heading into Convention Center

Delegates’ Briefing with Jeff, parliamentarian

Election voting instructions

Delegates’ seating at business session

Parade of Nations – Opening Session

National Anthem and Presentation of Colors

President Horton opens EFAM

Avery awards presentation

Colleen – Springfield Metro Chapter Bethel – Kansas Division

Avery award winners

Bylaws Committee chair presents amendments

Speaking at the pro mic

SW District Caucus

Recognition of SW District division presidents

Kansas Division Board with Avery award

Kansas Division Dinner

President Martha Leek CPS outside restaurant

Kansas Division at Buca di Beppo

Lots of good food – served family style

Outside looking in – sorting out bills took forever!

Evening of Welcome

Choose your handmade mud-cloth bag from Mali

Evening of Welcome – The State Fair

Hilton Garden Inn where most of us stayed

Mural on side of Convention Center

Church between Convention Center and Hilton Garden Inn Hotel

View from hotel room window

Delegates lined up to vote, while some of us . . .

. . . walked to the river through elevated Skyways(Yes, the river!)

Destination – Mississippi River

Margo on the bridge

Michelle and Sue

Walk back from the river outside – metro bus front encased in wall

Downtown Mpls and one of the many SkywaysMarquette Ave

• Minnesotans kept telling us there are 2 seasons in Minneapolis – winter and road construction!

Building mural by hotel

Orchestra Hall opposite Hilton Mpls Hotel

Water architecture near hotel

Sign inside Convention Center

Leadership lunch

Leadership lunch speaker Steven Iwersen

Tammy and Pat fulfilling delegate duties

President Horton with her well-used “manual” of strange facts about MN during a long vote count

2009-2010 Int’l Board

Newly elected RTF trustees

Lobby of Hilton Minneapolis

Having fun at downtown Target

Started at 6:30 a.m.!!!!

EFAM volunteers

IAAP Book Nook

Warren Evans signing books

Waiting for business to reconvene

Networking

Keynote speaker Warren Evans

Kansas members

Office Expo

Dinner at Hard Rock Cafe

Inside Hard Rock Cafe

Evening of Entertainment: “Cirque Voila”

Bethel at President Horton’s breakfast for 08-09 division presidents – SW District group

President Horton with 08-09 division presidents

Workshops

Returning to workshops after lunch

Park between Convention Center and Hilton Mpls

IAAP banner outside Convention Center

Heartland Chapter

Johnson County Chapter

Kaw Chapter

Minisa Chapter

Kansas Division

Kansas Division 08-09 Board

Banquet table centerpiece

Table No. 89

Bethel (KS), Toni (SW District director), Suzanne (TX-LA)

Minisa Chapter

Bethel and Carolyn Drake, AL Division Martha and Joanne MacKenzie, FL Division 2008 2009

Bethel and Martha with Incoming Division Presidents Conference roommates

Bethel Accepts Division of Excellence Banner

New theme for 2009-2010

Canada members’ donation to RTF in President Horton’s name

Passing of the Gavel to Susan Shamali CPS/CAP

Kansas Division Board with Division of Excellence banner

“The Cherry” at sculpture park

Mpls skyline

Mpls architecture downtown

Old flour mills along river, downtown Mpls

“The Mall” – the happening place

Farmers’ market, Nicollet Mall

Nicollet Mall

Some of the posh neighborhoods

St Paul skyline

St Paul’s Cathedral, St Paul

One of the 4th largest cathedrals in

USA

Inside cathedral

St Paul – hometown of

Charles Schultz

Historical landmark building downtown

St Paul

Prairie Home Companion theater, St Paul

Nadine outside capitol building

St Paul

New Guthrie Theatre with ghosts of the

old theatre

View from the Guthrie Theatre

New bridge that replaces the one which collapsed during rush hour while we were at the

Tampa convention 1 August 2007

Inside Mall of America

One of the food courts

Amusement park inside the mall

Official photographs on display