2025 Jan-Feb RETA Breeze

2024-25 BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Michael Hawkins, CARO Midatlantic Refrigeration, LLC

FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT

NATIONAL PRESIDENT David Gulcynski, CIRO, CRES Dot Foods, Inc EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Bill Lape, CARO, CIRO, CRST SCS Tracer Environmental

Hello all and I hope everyone is well! With winter closing in on spring, your National Board of Directors will start planning to meet at RETA HQ to discuss business and make decisions regarding our organization. There is plenty of good stuff in the works and I am excited about our future. I sat in on an International Committee meeting a couple weeks ago. This Commit tee is strong and is working with the Marketing Committee to get the RETA brand out to the world. During this meeting there was lots of discussion on how to make this happen. The one thing that caught my attention was a comment made by Brandon Jones, “Education is our core strength and the reason the international refrigeration community is looking at RETA”. I completely agree and our library of educational materials is where it all starts. This commit tee and RETA HQ are looking at what we need to do to make sure our educational materials are going to be ready to go out into the international market. It is a complicated task but I am confident we will get it done! While it seems like yesterday we were in Grapevine, TX for conference, Stephanie Date and the Conference Committee are already hard at work preparing for this year’s Conference is Spokane, WA. This conference will be a heavy equipment show so manufacturers and vendors will be able to bring in all the equipment they need to showcase their products. A call for topic abstracts has gone out to the general membership, so if you have an educational topic you would like to speak on at conference, contact Stephanie at HQ, she can point you in the right direction. Scott Melton, Don Tragethon and the Education Committee are busy working on an IR1 book review and re-writing the CO2 Study Course. Scott’s article in this edition of the Breeze goes into much more detail

about those projects, who is leading the charge and what is coming down the pipe from the Education Committee. Our other committees, Publications, Marketing & Certification, are active and staying busy as well. I try to sit in as many of the committee meetings I can and cannot thank the leaders, volunteers and HQ staff enough who consistently keep the work moving in a positive direction. Thank you!! I would like to announce a new committee that will start working this year, The RETA – RSES Culture Committee. Jerry Clark, Past RSES International President, has agreed to be the Committee Chair. This committee is in its infancy stage and will consist of both RSES & RETA folks. The idea behind and goals for the committee will be to develop our organizations future and blending of traditions. Both organizations are so much alike, yet each has their own individual traditions. I am excited about the results that will come from the Culture Committee and look forward to share those results as the year progresses. Once again, our organization has a bright future and I am confident we have the right people working towards that future. Thank you for reading and take care!

TREASURER Ray Urban, Jr, CARO Lineage Logistics SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Jeremy Murfin AC & R Specialists

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jeremiah Armstrong

Brakebush Brothers Melissa Cassell General Refrigeration Dale Clinton, CIRO, CRST Stellar Brynn Cooksey Air Doctor Heating and Cooling Mike Davis Republic Refrigeration Ron Fetterley, CARO, CIRO, CRST Applied Process Cooling Corporation Jayson Goff CoolSys Brandon Jones, CARO Tyson Foods Eric Kaiser TruTech Tools, Ltd Jim Kovarik Gamma Graphics Service Jose Marchese Koldcraft Refrigeration Services Casey McConnaughy Johnson Controls Technical Services

Dave Gulcynski RETA National President

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