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WESTERN
STATES AUTO THEFT
INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATION
SOUTHERN CHAPTER
30th ANNUAL TRAINING SEMINAR
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SEPTEMBER 30th - OCTOBER
3rd, 2001
 Following
a quick break, we jumped right into our training, with keynote speaker
Gordon
Graham, speaking on Risk Management. If you have never heard
Gordon speak, then you have missed one of the most entertaining and enlightening
training sessions presented.
For the next two days, up to 16 hours of P.O.S.T. certified
training was available to the Seminar participants in some of the 24 available
classes given. For a list of the classes available to Seminar attendees,
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| On Tuesday night, the banquet was held in the ballroom.
After dinner, Bill Lovold
introduced the WSATI Southern Chapter Officers,
Seminar
Committee Members, and the WSATI Southern Chapter Past
Presidents who were in attendance. Bill also thanked several
people not on the Committee for assisting with the registration, including
Terry
Cramer (Terry Cramer's wife), Phyllis Graber,
and Tracie Mortenson. He then introduced
WSATI Central Chapter President P.J. O'Donnell,
Northern Chapter President Gary Gray, IAATI
President
Dave Ecklund, IAATI-WRC President
Bill Larocque, Arizona Auto Theft Investigators
Association President
Joe Brosius, and Colorado
Auto Theft Investigators Association President
Roy
Rudisill.
Several presentations were also made after dinner.
Jerry
Boyer presented Dennis Frias with the
Richard A. Smith Memorial Award for
all his years of dedication to WSATI. IAATI President David
Ecklund presented IAATI Western Regional Chapter President Bill
Larocque with the 1988 IAATI Regional Charter of the WRC.
Following the presentations was the long awaited raffle.
Bill had Frank Graber, who was in charge of
the donors and sponsors, come up.
Frank thanked the many donors and sponsors
who helped with the conference. Frank also thanked the vendors
who not only showed their products at the Seminar, but also in most cases,
donated products for the raffle.
Bill Lovold then introduced
B.J.
Johnson, his former LAPD BAD CATS partner and current retired resident
of Palm Springs. B.J. had in his possession his original IAATI membership
card that expired in 1957. Bill gave B.J. the priveledge of making
the first draw of the night and naturally B.J. drew his own ticket.
A lot of great raffle gifts were given out to the attendees even if Carol
VanNatter could not figure out a way to spin the ticket barrel without
tickets falling out (another story).
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