Western Federation of Professional Surveyors REPORT BY MICHAEL NADEAU, PLS, CFedS, DIRECTOR, WFPS As I begin this report, I want to take a moment to honor and dedicate it to my predecessor on the WFPS board, Ron Whitehead. Since my last report, as many of you already know, Ron passed away on Sept. 25, 2023. Before I took over, Ron served as your representative to the WFPS for more than 20 years. While we don’t know the exact duration, we estimate it was over two decades of dedicated service to UCLS through WFPS — along with countless other contributions to the profession, not only in Utah but throughout the West and across the country. When people describe someone as the “salt of the earth,” Ron truly embodied that phrase. I can’t pinpoint exactly how long I knew Ron — probably since I began attending UCLS board meetings as the Salt Lake chapter president in 2007. Let’s call it 16 years. When I was elected chairman-elect of UCLS in 2010, I had the privilege of traveling with Ron to WFPS board meetings across the Western U.S. The following year, when I became UCLS chairman, the new chairman-elect wasn’t keen on attending the WFPS meetings. Without hesitation, Ron declared, “Mike will keep going this year then.” And the rest, as they say, is history. Little did I know, Ron was grooming me to one day take his place on the board. In 2012, Ron personally asked me to run for Utah’s WFPS director. I was taken aback and said, “No way! That’s your position; I could UCLS Foresights 22
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