Our President, Bill Graedel passed away suddenly on Tuesday, March 18, at 75 years of age. Although Bill was not mobile enough to participate in the heavy tasks, his strength was taking care of all of the back office tasks that are so necessary to keep the organization running smoothly. Bill was great at handling the paperwork, making and receiving lots of phone-calls plus working the multitude of connections that he had throughout the local counties. He seemed to know everyone that mattered. He was a person that was easy to talk to and always ran an organized meeting. He will be greatly missed by everyone in our organization.

The drugstore that housed our post office box is closing. We were forced to find a new location for a post office box. We were unable to maintain our old box number. The new mailing address for the society, effective May, 2006 is:

IERHS

P.O. Box 3950

Spokane, WA 99220-3950