Mt. Vernon Chapter

Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Time: 6:00 p.m. dinner; 7:00 p.m. program

Location: Pastazza Restaurant Bellingham, WA
(2945 Newmarket St. inside Barkley Village)

Speaker: Ira Penn

Ira A. Penn is a former Senior Management Analyst with the U.S. Federal Government.  He retired in 1997 after over three decades in Federal records management.   

Active in ARMA International at the Association level, Ira was the Editor of the Records Management Quarterly from 1984 until 1998.  He received the Britt Literary Award in 1979, the Award of Merit in 1982, was inducted as an ARMA Fellow in 1990, and was presented with a Life Membership in 1998.  

Ira was also active in the Institute of Certified Records Managers.  He was in the first group of records managers to receive the CRM designation and served on the ICRM Examination Development Committee for six years and on its Board of Regents for ten years.  He was the recipient of the prestigious Leahy Award in 1990 and was given the Institute’s Award of Merit in 1992. 

During his records management career Ira wrote scores of articles, gave hundreds of speeches, and was a principal author of the Records Management Handbook.

Program: You Don’t Have To Get Sick In Your Office

You’ve got headaches, stomachaches, and backaches.  Are you sitting in the Emergency Room?  No.  More likely you are at your office desk.  When people think about the causes of severe stress they think of major life disasters such as death, sickness, and divorce.  They rarely think of their job.  And yet the working environment that one is subjected to every day probably produces more stress on a continuing basis than all the major disasters combined. 

In this presentation you will hear not only about the causes of stress in the office, but about what you can do to eliminate them.

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