Barb Ulschmid Departing G&G After 9+ Years
By G&G Staff
Its with great excitement for Barb Ulschmid and selfish sadness among G&G staff that we announce Barbs last day with G&G on Sept. 23. After more than nine years of wonderful service with us, Barb is moving on to a new position that will afford her even more opportunities to enhance her many skills.
We are immensely proud of her time with G&G, and the tremendous growth shes had since she first came to us in the summer of 2007. Her meeting planning and office manager role within G&G has been invaluable to us.
But most of all we will miss her friendship, her warm heart, her family (who helped us a lot with projects over the years everything from putting plates on trophies to mowing the lawn), her can-do-it attitude, going the extra mile for annual meetings and always knowing that our members came first in all she did.
It goes without saying that she truly contributed to G&Gs success every day of our more than nine years together, which is almost half of the time that G&G has been in existence.
Working in association management means constantly meeting deadlines, finding ways to lessen stress one week (or more) before an annual meeting, making sure just the right food is ordered for just the right group, nudging volunteer members when deadlines were missed and so much more. Barb did this all with enthusiasm, subtlety, patience and humor. In this business, ALL those attributes are necessary.
Barb, your contributions the past nine years will help keep us on the right track here at G&G in the future. We thank you. We will miss you. Best of luck (although you wont need luck you have talent) in your new position and we hope it brings you all the same joy you brought to us all these years.