The year has started off with quite a few visits to our Sections and Chapters. Thank you to Central California, Idaho, Riverside San Bernardino, Central Coast, Southern California, and San Diego Sections/Chapters for hosting me this past month. I am looking forward to wrapping up this month’s travel with a [...]

It is an honor to serve as the Western District President and I’d like to thank the membership in trusting me with this role. We had a successful meeting with the Texas District in Keystone that included a great mix of the Western and Texas District traditions as well as [...]

In case you missed Mark’s presidents message at the Business Luncheon, you can read it here: It‘s been my privilege to serve as our District President these past two years! This past year we were able to continue advancements in all five of the Western District Strategic Plan goals. These [...]

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for allowing me to serve as your President these past two years.  It’s been my privilege to meet so many of our members across the District, whether at a local Section meeting, a regional conference, or our Annual Meeting.  What I [...]

It's been my privilege to serve as Western District President these past two years. The Board was quite active all year, allowing us to advance all five goals of the District’s Strategic Plan (student initiatives, career development, technical excellence, social/networking, and promoting the profession). The Student Endowment Fund surpassed its initial goal [...]

ITE by the Numbers by Mark Spencer As I wind down my tenure as ITE Western District President, I am thinking of many things. One item in particular is how unified we are despite the diversity of the Western District.  We often talk about ITE and whether it’s the same if [...]

The Olympics and the ITE Western District Annual Meeting - Challenge Yourself! I am watching the Olympics this week and like many of us, I am convinced I can do that! I don’t mean a 1080 flip in the half pipe, or driving a bobsled that is not inside the Matterhorn. [...]

Highlights from the Student Leadership Summit, Oregon State University, January 19-21, 2018 I recently attended the fifth annual ITE Western District Student Leadership Summit at OSU in Corvallis, OR. This was the first time the Western District SLS was held outside California and every year the SLS gets better and better. There [...]

This month our E-News features a spotlight article on the Riverside–San Bernardino Section and updates from the 2018 LAC on the upcoming joint Western-Texas Districts Annual Meeting in Keystone, CO,(June 24-27, 2018). As I meet with local Sections throughout the District, I often speak about our many ways of engaging [...]