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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y F A L L 2 0 1 8 13 H Hello to all of my fellow CAS members. I want to share my experience of working on the CAS Board with you. I have been and am still blessed to have had the opportunities and outcomes that I am very proud of in my life. As a result of some of that experience, I was invited to become a member of the CAS in 1995. Coincidentally, I had been a member of the ATAS Peer Group Executive Committee for a few years and had become quite active in the world of board meetings and organization management. My motivation for this activity has always been an attempt at giving back to an industry that has sustained me and fulfilled me. In turn, this activity has become a source of some of the sustenance. I was elected to the CAS Board as an Alternate Board member (This category has since been eliminated) in 2004. Richard Lightstone CAS was just re-elected as President and he had also been doing the editorial work on the CAS Journal with Aletha Rodgers CAS. I volunteered to assist them in the editorial work. This was a transitional period for the organization. We had just begun our relationship with the Ingle Group (siblings Jody and Jeff) and their manager of sales, Dan Dodd. With constant guidance from the Board, we embarked on the new and improved CAS Quarterly in 2006. My job as co-editor was to find contributors and oversee the production and coordination with the Ingle Group and our Board. Prior to this, we did the entire newsletter in-house and just had the printing work outsourced. This included ad sales and mailing. The CAS was at around 325 members strong at the time and the workload was no joke. Aletha moved from production to motherhood and eventually retirement and I enticed David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE and Matt Foglia CAS to join my ranks as co-editors. I was elected as the Secretary of the CAS in 2007. This position required me to contribute more responsibility and time. I continued to work as a production mixer and held both CAS positions for several years. My house served as the CAS office and my wife Robin as the CAS office manager. I was Secretary for the term limit that was in place at that time and then ran for Treasurer as the CAS Treasurer at the time, R.D. Floyd CAS (R.I.P.), was leaving the area. This was also the period that I was transitioning from mixing to teaching. The Writers Strike of 2007-08 sent me in a new direction, teaching, and I moved to Savannah, GA, in July 2008. I was elected as Treasurer just as the CAS was transitioning to QuickBooks Online A Message from the Board b y P e t e r D a m s k i C A S FOOD FOR THOUGHT