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Associate's Degree Clark State CC 1973, student body president. Freelanced 1973-95. An official for the Summit Co.Court of Common Pleas 1978-79. Became a federal official for the U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio. Currently the chief reporter Northern District of Ohio. President OCRA 1984-85, held all offices for association. President of NCRA in 1994-95, held all but 1 office. Was chair of the NCRF following time on the NCRA board. RPR, RMR, CRR and a Fellow of the Academy of Professional Reporters. Awarded the Glenn Stiles Distinguished Service Award and the Martin Fincun Spark Award 1990. Committee participation includes, Proactive Planning Task Force, Committee for certification of reporters for OCRA and Ohio Supreme Court, constitution and bylaws committee chair. For NCRA I was on the finance committee, the legislative committee, realtime committee, technology committee, realtime contest committee, three-year term committee on Professional Ethics, chair two years; CAPR for three years; nominating committee chair, constitution and bylaws committee chair, quality improvement committee chair, executive committee and many others.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Steno Only As Voting Members

During the past several years, from time to time the NCRA Board has been in favor of amendments to the C&B which have been proposed to allow voice writers or videographers to become Registered Members of the Association, which, if passed, would allow these new categories of members to vote and run for and hold offices on the NCRA Board. The membership has voted every time to defeat these proposed amendments.

As I'm sure you will recall from last year's business meeting in Washington, D.C., the motion to rescind a motion of the Board dealing with testing voice writers and digital audio recorders narrowly missed passing, once again indicating to the Board that the membership does not favor permitting these people to be members or having NCRA test them. After all, giving them the NCRA seal of approval would do nothing more than help them take jobs away from stenographic reporters. I promise that I will never vote to allow people who use other methods to make the record to become Registered or Participating Members of NCRA.
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  1. Carib RajApril 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM

    I think it is a great adventure for you to head back to the Board of Directors for NCRA. I am positive that you will do our profession and the association a great service once you are back on board. Best wishes to you always, Roger

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  2. StenoWizardApril 28, 2010 at 7:51 AM

    Glad to read the plain language so reporters are crystal clear about where you stand. I'm tired of all the prevaricating and maneuvering trying to understand where our board members REALLY stand.

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