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ISAE Mourns the Loss of Janell Marshall, Board Member and Friend
It is with great sadness to inform you that Janell Marshall, ISAE Board Member and longtime member, passed away Saturday evening, January 19, 2019.
According to preliminary plans, the following arrangements have been made for Janell. Visitation will be at Runge Mortuary & Crematory in Davenport, Iowa from 2:00pm – 5:00pm on Sunday, January 27, 2019. Services will begin at the funeral home at 10:00 am Monday, January 28, 2019 followed by burial with military honors at the Rock Island Arsenal. Please review her obituary here when it has been updated and completed, to see if any times or services have changed for Monday.
Cards can be sent to her mother’s home address at:
Mrs. Jan Henning
1709 Fairmeadows Drive
Bettendorf, IA 52722
A Message From 2019 ISAE President, Rob French
 Years ago, one of my duties as a Cook-Witter intern included tracking legislation for a handful of association clients. I didn’t know much about the association world, but through these various clients I was exposed quickly. I was later fortunate enough to be hired by an association that highly valued its staff professional development (Illinois Chiropractic Society) and my ISAE membership automatically paid and attendance at educational events expected. Through the ISAE, I not only learned skills for my own position, but also about my office colleagues. I gained a greater understanding of how my role fit with the rest of our staff, and through that how we could be a stronger team.
Today, I find myself sitting in the Executive Director chair for one of those same clients (Illinois Economic Development Association) from my internship while assuming the Presidency of yet another (ISAE). I owe a great deal to my mentors (CW, ICS) and to the ISAE for the education and opportunities given to me. It is an honor and privilege to serve as president of this organization, and I hope I can give back to this group which has given me so much.
Last year our President, Eric Klinner, set the stage by having us re-evaluate who we are and what we do. It is an important question that all of us in the association world have to ask. Beyond that, we actively shifted how we thought about ownership and unity: this wasn’t the President’s agenda, it was the IEDA’s agenda – it was “ours.” Task forces were assembled with a diverse makeup and narrow focus. Long time members and fresh faces got together and took a fresh look at our educational offerings on one day, while another group streamlined our legislative focus another.
Many committees found themselves with new co-chairs, with new ideas, which gave us brand new programming. One specific example is a presentation we have scheduled for you on February 22, The Advocacy Playbook (For the Rest of the Staff). We will cover what advocacy means to you, how to best communicate advocacy to membership, and what does that lobbyist do all day?
Like any organization the ISAE belongs to its members, and we are blessed with a uniquely skilled membership that can really make an organization soar. Whether it’s a successful program that’s been launched or template that has been made, we invite you to get involved and share your ideas. I look forward to seeing what we build in 2019!
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