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Norma Dooley 2023 NADOA President
How do I begin to start this greeting for the New Year except that I am extremely excited about this being NADOA’s 50 th anniversary!! What an honor it is to serve as your President for 2023. NADOA is an association with a membership of extraordinary professionals who come together to share their knowledge of this industry with each other so we all may benefit to move ahead in our profession. Our industry has been hit hard over the past few years; although in 2022 we saw a surge of growth happening again. I hope this will continue throughout 2023 and thereafter. As most of you know by now, Institute will be held at the Omni Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. I am sure some of you are asking why there; I originally sited Louisville back in 2012 and fell in love with the city, its history and charm. I knew that was where I wanted my Institute if I were ever elected as NADOA President and hope you will be able to see what I saw when you join us at Institute in September. We held our first Board and Institute Committee meetings the weekend of January 20 th . Planning is underway with some truly great ideas to make your experience at Institute an awesome educational experience and a GOLDEN anniversary to remember. A trio of FABULOUS Institute Chairs is guiding the Committee in their planning: Liz Fajen, Michelle Harris-Fairclough, CDOA, and Yoli Bazan, CDOA. The Committee is working hard putting together an OUTSTANDING program with excellent speakers, as well as planning a memorable Thursday evening event and some fantastic food to enjoy. I was so happy to see so many new volunteers this year eager to help put their stamp on Institute.
I just got back from attending NAPE in Houston. It was a great trip considering it took 6 hours to get there from Fort Worth on Wednesday due to the icy weather conditions here. But it was so worth it – Betty Davidson, Lisa Buffaloe and I had a ton of visitors at the NADOA booth and have at least 20 new members signing up. It was very interesting explaining to some people what NADOA and a DOA are. They were amazed at all the things we do. We were able to talk with many of the colleges that were there and gave them some information to use in their energy classes to help promote
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G rowth T hrough E ducat i on - J anuary / F ebruary / M arch 2023
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