View from Stone Mountain: Historic Day for the ISTM

Brenda Bagwell

Pictured left to right: Gordon McIntyre (Heritage Accounting, Inc), Brenda Bagwell (ISTM Administrative Director), and David O. Freedman (ISTM Secretary-Treasurer) during their monthly meeting.

Dear Friends,

I am writing today from our new office located at 2386 Clower Street in Snellville, Georgia (or 33°51'48" N and 84°5'30" W). I am sure most ISTM members did not realize that for the past 14 years our headquarters was located in an office at my house. When I began my journey with ISTM, we had 616 members and, as of this writing, we have 2,257 members from 74 countries! So, as you can see, the society has outgrown our one-room office. If you are ever in the Atlanta area - we do hope you will have the time to stop by for a visit - we would enjoy showing you our little corner of the world.

With regards to the new office, if any of you have pictures from our past conferences and would not mind sharing a few with us it would be much appreciated. We would like to assemble a "video history" of the ISTM and how it has grown and changed over the years. You can send these to us via email (istm@istm.org) or by mail. Our complete address appears below.

Plans are well underway for the 3rd Regional Conference to be held in Melbourne, Australia this upcoming February. If those of you in the northern hemisphere find yourselves needing a touch of summer in the dreary winter months you should make plans to attend this meeting. The program looks very good and I can say from experience that Melbourne is a wonderful city (see the accompanying article on page 4 about the Melbourne meeting). We will be offering the Certificate of Knowledge Exam at this meeting as well. You can find information on both of these activities by visiting the ISTM web page (www.istm.org).

Do your contact details or travel clinic details on our website need updating? If so, we ask that you log onto Member Services. Then, under ‘Member Management’, choose either ‘Update your contact information’ or ‘Manage clinic listings’. From there it is very easy to update your information. Please be reminded that the membership listing and the travel clinic directory are not connected, so if, for instance, you update your contact information and this affects your clinic directory listing, you will need to update the clinic directory listing as well. Also note that the member directory information is available to members only and not the general public. I know some of you have expressed concern about this in the past.

It was wonderful to see so many of you during CISTM10 in Vancouver - thank you to all who stopped by to say hi - it is always so good to see you. It is hard to believe that the conference has come and gone already! It reminds me of holiday meals that you spend days preparing and then finish eating in about 15 minutes. If you were unable to attend, you missed a great meeting and we missed you! Once again, it was so nice to see old friends and greet new ones at the meeting. We do hope all of you will stop in at the office (well, not all at one time, please - it is not that big of an office!) when you are in the area. Until next time, remember, "the most wasted of all days is the one without laughter" (e.e. cummings).

Take care,

Brenda and Brooke

Brenda is Administrative Director of ISTM.
Brooke Gouge is the Administrative Assistant.

ISTM 2386 Clower Street, Suite A-102 Snellville, GA 30078 USA Phone: +1-770-736-7060, Fax: +1-770-736-0313, Email: istm@istm.org Office hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Eastern U.S. time) Monday - Friday