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30 CINEMONTAGE / Q3 2018 Local 600 moved across the street. All three floors now are used exclusively by Local 700 and, with the first floor now housing the Editors Guild Archive, she also serves as the staffer working with the Archive and History Committee. "I have a profound respect for all my colleagues at the Guild and on the Board of Directors," Iglesias-Dietl explains. "The events and outreach programs would be impossible without the staff 's enthusiasm and wholehearted participation. National Executive Director Cathy Repola is ever supportive and creates a warm and caring work environment; and [Director of Membership Services] Shanda Zuniga, my immediate supervisor, always has an open door, encourages my new ideas and helps me see them through to fruition. I am grateful to all of them and for the privilege of being part of an amazing team for 30 years." Like Iglesias-Dietl, Dosch learned of the Guild's administrative assistant position through a chance meeting. From the beginning, she says, "My job has always been to facilitate and execute the actions of the executive director and the Board of Directors." Then- Executive Director Kutak soon recognized her interest and talent for technology and computers and, in 1994, put her in charge of revamping the Guild's membership database. "Ron saw that I had an eye for the future," she recalls. "Nobody asked me to do things; I saw what could be done and I advocated for it." Doing so, she succeeded in setting up the information and communication backbone that allows the Guild to function efficiently. In 1996, Dosch was named Executive Administrator, her current position, and in 1997 — with picture editors Steve Cohen, ACE, and Jay Scherberth — she launched the Guild's first official website. Over the years, the organization has developed three or four database systems; at present, it is a web-based system interactive with both the Editors Guild and CineMontage websites. "So much that has been introduced came from hearing what members, staff and field reps had said they needed," she explains. "I found ways to put their ideas to work in the technology." Most importantly, Dosch created the mechanisms for the Clockwise from left, Administrative Assistant Lisa Dosch, Accounting Manager Meleney Humphrey, Field Representative Maureen O'Connell, Assistant Executive Director Cathy Repola, Membership Coordinator Adriana Iglesias and Field Representative Hank Schloss in 1994.