RETA Breeze Jul-Aug 2025

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

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

above and beyond or have dedicated a great deal of time to RETA and the industrial refrigeration industry. A few of these activities include the business meeting, the RETA Rumble, the awards banquet and the 30 Under 30 recognition program. There are also events and meetings for specific groups like the WiNR Reception, Chapter Leaders Reception, First Timers Reception and new this year, will be the RETA Inclusion Network for African Americans (RINAA) meeting. All these group meetings are designed to get the leaders and future leaders in our organization together to meet each other and discuss how we can make RETA better. For more information on each, feel free to check the website for details. Stephanie Date at RETA HQ can always provide more information as well. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at conference this year and am excited about meeting new folks from both RETA and RSES. Thank you for reading and take care!

Hello all and I hope everyone is well! Here we are in the heat of summer and everyone within the industries of HVACR and industrial refrigeration are busy! Home and business air conditioners are being serviced, repaired or replaced; and food processing and cold storage warehouses are plugging away, keeping the masses fed. We all have our work cut out for us. It doesn’t matter if you are selling, repairing or installing equipment, building a new cold box for a restaurant or school, or maintain ing a cold storage plant, we all have our hands full. And now, in the heat of August, many of the food processing plants across the US will be working harder than ever. With that said, we also have a lot to look forward to as well. It will be fall before we know it and the RETA National Conference will be in full swing in Spokane, WA. I am especially looking forward to this confer ence as it is on my side of the country and being on the West Coast is always special for me. I am sure you are getting blasted with emails and social media posts reminding you about the conference. I am going to give it another plug. There will be a lot going on at this year’s conference. As usual there will be plenty of educational experi ences, committee meetings, networking opportunities and the exhibit hall will give you the opportunity to meet with manufac turers, contractors and vendors. For those of you who have never been to a national conference, it’s a great experience to meet folks in your industry who can identify with the challenges you have in your career. Some of the other activities that take place during the conference will give you the experience of being part of an organization that promotes recognizing companies and individuals within our industry who go

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, CMS Air Doctor Heating and Cooling Mike Davis Republic Refrigeration Ron Fetterley, CARO, CIRO, CRST Applied Process Cooling Corporate Jayson Goff, CMS CoolSys Brandon Jones, CARO Tyson Foods Eric Kaiser TruTech Tools, Ltd Jim Kovarik Gamma Graphics Service Joe Marchese, CMS Koldcraft Refrigeration Services Casey McConnaughy Johnson Controls Technical Services

Dave Gulcynski, CRES, CIRO RETA-RSES International President

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