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PRESIDENT’S
CORNER
DENISE BECKER, CMCA, AMS, PCAM
CAI-NJ 2017 PRESIDENT | HOMESTEAD MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., AAMC
"It would be remiss if I didn’t give
honorable mention to all of the
Past Presidents before me, who
paved the way and supported me
throughout my term as President."
“Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
It’s a far gone lullaby sung many years ago.
Mama, Mama, many worlds I’ve come since I first left home.”
Robert Hunter – “Brokedown Palace”
A.
A. Milne of Winnie-the-Pooh fame once wrote:
“how lucky I am to have something that makes
saying goodbye so hard.” How lucky (and grate-
ful) indeed.
This has not been an easy year, my friends, but we made
it through and we are (hopefully) all the better for it. Another
year on the bright blue ball, another year with loved ones,
another year of learning and experiences, and another
year of some good times.
When I wrote my first column for
Community Trends
®
back in January, I had a few goals for the year. First and
foremost, my primary goal is to not mess anything up. As
we close out the year, I hope that I can say that I was suc-
cessful in that goal.
I also asked each and every one of you to be mentors/
ambassadors for CAI. My goal was to increase involve-
ment, increase membership, and make 2017 even better
than the years before. Again, I hope that I was also suc-
cessful in that goal.
And now, some
THANK YOUS
! To the chapter staff –
Larry, Angela, Jaclyn, Laura, Erika and Brooke – I could not
have made it through the year without you. Thank you to
my fellow Board members for putting up with me this year.
We may not have agreed on everything, but everything
we did, we did for the betterment of the chapter. Thank
you to all of our chapter members, for your continued par-
ticipation, your sponsorship at events, your willingness to
give your time to volunteer to serve on a committee, speak
at one of our educational seminars, and for everything else
that you do. Our members are really what make this chap-
ter special. And a very special thank you to my friend and
column editor, Jon Katz. We had a lot of fun putting these
columns together!
It would be remiss if I didn’t give honorable mention to
all of the Past Presidents before me, who paved the way
and supported me throughout my term as President. I will
be joining you in the comfy chairs shortly.
I wish to welcome the new CAI-NJ board members who
will be replacing Gabriel Vitale and myself on the board as
our terms are up with CAI-NJ. I wish you much success and
look forward to seeing the differences you will make for
our chapter. I feel it was forever ago that I stood up in front
of the membership and pledged my oath to be the best
board member I could be for our chapter. And Gabe, my
dear friend, it has been a great six years serving with you.
To everyone else who I am missing, those who I have
met along the way, or those who just joined as a member
this year, attended an educational seminar, a networking
event, or the Annual Conference & Expo, thank you, thank
you, thank you. Your continued membership will get us to