Calm Before the Storm:
SMI’s 2020 Annual Meeting By Gary McCoy
44 / SPRINGS / Summer 2020
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hose who attended SMI’s 2020 Annual Meeting at the Atlantis in the Bahamas in early March will long remember the unusually strong trade winds. Things were blowing everywhere! Everyone also left with a lot of happy memories of great networking and outstanding educational presentations. Little did anyone know just how strong the winds of change were blowing back home, where the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning to reap a devasting toll on people’s health and livelihoods (a story the continues to be written as we go to press). Part of the celebration in the Bahamas was the installation of SMI’s new president, Bert Goering of Precision Coil Spring. Goering began his two-year term and takes over for Steve Kempf of Lee Spring, who will serve an additional two years on the executive committee as past president. The meeting also served as an opportunity to recognize Mike Betts of Betts Company for serving for 10 years on the executive committee. The entire 2020–2022 executive committee includes Gene Huber, Jr., Winamac Coil Spring, vice president; Don Jacobson III, Newcomb Spring, secretary/treasurer; and David DeVoe, Plymouth Spring, at large.
