Sunday, July 2, 2023
I am so saddened for all of us. John was a leader in AALAS and in many professional ways. My best memory of John is the year he saved the TriBranch Symposium. I heard on the radio early one dark morning that the Adam's Mark had sold itself to a developer and would become a Target. Metro New York was going to run the following year's Symposium, so I called John and told him what I had heard. We both said "But we have a contract!!!" and then John went to work. He called me again a few hours later, having verified the news, and said he was going to get working on this. He did. John not only saved the symposium, he took it to Atlantic City, at the convention center, and pulled together a very successful meeting. Thank you John for your amazing leadership, and for the foresight to keep the meeting going in such a grand manner. You made this profession of LAS a warmer and kinder place.
Amy Ingraham
