I’m sure I speak for all of the current and past Officers when I say that we owe Barb Henderson the biggest Thank You we can muster for her outstanding job as Newsletter Editor.

Over five years, 20 issues, and 240 pages she has captured and distilled the spirit, excitement and vitality of the Islander Association for all to enjoy. She faithfully set and kept her schedule, gently prodding us all to give her stories and pictures, and reminding us to get our reports to her on time.

She developed a format which is professional, readable, and redolent with the style and grace we love about Barbara. She takes the pictures, she writes copy when we don’t provide it, and she works to make sure that every new member gets promptly on the mailing list. The long hours of composition, sizing stories and pictures, squeezing and stretching to get that nice balance are only half the story.

Then she shepherds the printer to get electronic files to printed paper followed by the effort to get it addressed and mailed. With a color electronic copy posted on the web site an issue is complete – and the thinking for the next one begins.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, is hardly enough. You earned the Schneider Trophy for service to the Association in 2002 – and have kept on for two more years. You have set a standard we shall strive to uphold, and have contributed greatly to the glory that is the Islander 36 Association.

Congratulations on a job well done.