RETA Breeze Sept/Oct 2025

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

grapevine, you have missed out on some recent news from HQ, check your company’s spam filter. It may be a simple fix on your end. If not, please reach out to RETA-RSES HQ and let them know you are not receiving the messages. One message in particular you may or may not have received is the news of Jim Barron’s retirement. Jim has been the RETA Executive Director for the past 12 years. Jim is also a Past RETA President (2009) and Certification Committee Chairman. As an important member of the refrigeration industry for over 40 years, Jim has played a significant role in shaping how operators and technicians do their job safely. Jim was a key player in creating RETA’s current certification programs. If you run into Don Tragethon, ask him to tell you the story of how he helped rope Jim into bringing ANAB into our certification programs. I cannot begin to list all the contributions Jim has made to our organization and industry. The RETA-RSES Executive Committee will be making a special effort to highlight Jim’s career during the business meeting at conference. Until then, I would like to acknowledge Jim and his accomplishments personally, and say, thank you, Jim for everything you have done for our organization. Thank you for reading and take care!

Hello all—I hope everyone is well! As I write this final message as President, I am amazed how quickly the year has passed. The 2025 National Conference is upon us, and fall is in the air. Throughout the year I have had the opportunity to attend several Committee meetings. The Education Committee continues to produce results, and one of the highlights from RSES is the new Introduction to HVACR book, now available through RSES. If you have not already done so, please check it out. The Marketing & Membership Committees both have a great number of good ideas coming down the pipeline; and I am looking forward to seeing some of those come to fruition over the next several months and into the next year. A big change that I have seen from these two committees is the number of social media posts about RETA-RSES, what has happened as well as what is coming up. If you see a RETA–RSES post, take some time to read and share the post so we can reach out to folks who are not already members. There are thousands of people in the HVAC and refrigeration industries who do not know what RETA and RSES are, social media is a strong avenue to reach those people. Our Publications Committee continues to provide great articles for the RSES Journal and RETA Breeze. There has been a big change this year in communication to membership about the release of publica tions, as well as special announcements coming from RETA-RSES HQ. Instead of coming from an email address ending in “. com,” the messages are coming from an email address ending in “.org.” This has caused some of the informational communi cations from HQ to go to some company spam filters. If you learned through the

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

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jeremiah Armstrong, CIRO 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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