March 2022 APEC Southern Illinois Kilowatch
A Page Turn for APEC Southern Illinois
March 1, 2022
By Sid Daller
As some may know or not yet know, there will be some changes occurring in the APEC Southern Illinois Chapter Leadership soon. With that in mind I would be failing in my duties to not shine a small light on the efforts of Joe Birschbach over the last few years in reigniting the Southern Illinois Chapter.
As many of you know, Joe took on the task of trying to start this chapter back up with little more than the chapter distribution list and grew it into the success it is today on the second Friday of each month, September through April. Since restarting, we’ve been able to talk about everything from residential solar and passive solar heating, to touring Continental Tire, to talking about small business opportunities and even combined heat and power. So from all of us at APEC, thank you Joe for pouring time and energy into getting speakers, making phone calls, and doing all of the little things it takes to keep the wheels turning! We will keep marching the mission of bridging the technology gap forward.
Related to some other organizational growth, I also want to introduce Jaimee Chen, who has been helping in the background for a few months now into a more formal Vice President role, with myself stepping into a board member role, along with Larry Erwin and Joe Birschbach, in support of our new leadership. Last but certainly not least, I want to announce our incoming chapter president Bill Auksel. Bill will be able to offer more of an introduction during our upcoming meeting so I will leave him the opportunity for him to introduce himself. We are all very excited for these changes and I look forward to working with our larger group. I’m providing the leadership breakdown below effective at the end of this program year.
President – Bill Auksel
Vice President – Jaimee Chen
Secretary – TBD
Board Members – Joe Birschbach, Larry Erwin, Sid Daller
Feel free to reach out to anyone of us if you have presentation topics, new members that wish to join, or other ideas to create additional value for those involved here.
Best,
Sid Daller