Following a worldwide balloting that ended on February 10th, the IARU International Secretariat announced today the ratifications of the nominations of Timothy S. Ellam, VE6SH/G4HUA, to serve as President of the IARU for a five-year term beginning on 9 May 2009 and of Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, to serve as Vice President of the IARU for a five-year term also beginning on 9 May 2009.

Mr Ellam, a long time Canadian Amateur residing in Calgary, Alberta, was until now Vice President of the IARU. He is well known in the Canadian Amateur administration circles as he has been active with RAC and its proceeding organizations for many years.
He will be replacing Dr Larry E. Price, W4RA, who has been IARU President since 1998 and has decided to retire at the end of his current term in May.

Mr Garpestad, a resident of Oslo, Norway is presently President of the IARU Region 1. He also has a long history of working for Amateur Radio at different levels over the years.

Our congratulations to Tim and Ole and we are looking forward to working with them.

We also want to thank Larry for many decades of hard work preserving Amateur privileges and working to get us some more.

73,

Daniel A. Lamoureux, VE2KA
Vice-Persident International Affairs,
Radio Amateurs of Canada

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