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McIntyre resigns
Wienandt to lead society
John McIntyre has stepped down as ACES president after two terms. The society’s Executive Committee named Chris Wienandt, a vice president, to succeed him.
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In a special session May 4, the committee voted to accept McIntyre’s resignation and named Wienandt to the presidency. Both votes were unanimous.
McIntyre, who is assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Sun in Baltimore, a teacher of copy editing at Loyola College and the father of twin college-age children, said he’d made his decision for personal reasons.
“Contributing to the growth and influence of ACES has been the greatest satisfaction of my career, and it is painful to disappoint the expectations of the members who elected me to a third term,” he said in a letter to board members. “I wish it could have been otherwise.
“I have every confidence that Chris Wienandt and the other members of the board, all smart, energetic and devoted to ACES, will serve the society well,” he said.
McIntyre served as an officer of the organization for seven years, first as co-secretary and then as vice president for membership. He was elected president in 2001 and re-elected in 2003 and 2005. He has been a popular workshop presenter at ACES conferences and elsewhere.
Wienandt, the business news copy desk chief at The Dallas Morning News, is a charter member of ACES and was a member of the society’s original Steering Committee, the forerunner of today’s Executive Committee, to which he recently was elected for a fifth term.
His service to the society includes more than a year of work as the local organizer of the 1999 national conference in Dallas and two terms as vice president for conferences, from 2001 to 2005. In that capacity, he was the principal planner of ACES' national meetings in 2002 in Louisville, Ky.; 2003 in Chicago; 2004 in Houston; and 2005 in Hollywood, Calif.
"John’s a tough act to follow,” Wienandt said. “But ACES is a strong organization full of great people, and we will continue to work toward the goals we’ve set for ourselves.”
During its regular meeting May 11, the Executive Committee named Scott Toole to fill the vacancy on the board created by Wienandt’s ascent to the presidency. Toole, who is the news editor of The Express-Times in Easton, Pa., served two previous terms on the board and coordinates the annual silent auction benefiting ACES’ scholarship programs.
An updated and expanded version of this story will appear in the next edition of the ACES newsletter.
