The NEBB Professional

NEBB President's Comments

I am now on my final quarterly article, and my presidential year is more than half over. Where has the time gone? Every past president has told me that the year would be over and gone in the blink of an eye, and they were not wrong.

By the time you are reading this, all of the arrangements for the Charleston conference will be done, venues set, schedule locked down, and all the food and entertainment lined up and ready to go. We are going to have a great time! The NEBB staff has worked tirelessly to make this conference happen - we started on this way back in 2020 just as COVID ramped up. That didn’t stop our team though! They persevered and got it all done. And now we are ready for YOU! Make sure to sign up as soon as registration opens so you don’t miss out.

Thanks to the local MEBB Chapter, we will have a fishing tournament this year. This will be a first come, first served sign up as boats are limited. It will be an inshore Red Drum adventure! We will also have golf on Thursday November 3rd as usual. A huge thank you to Jeff Schools for helping to get this all set up for us. The courses in South Carolina are truly beautiful!

We went back to holding a mid-year meeting this year and the results were outstanding. Having all the committees at the same site without the additional worries of technical sessions, events, and other duties provided our teams the focused opportunity they need to get their own work done, as well as work with other committees on joint venture items for seminars, the NEBB Learning Center (NLC), and publications. We were also able to provide training by staff to all the volunteers, in person, which is hard to do without a meeting and venue like this. I want to thank all of our volunteers for the incredible work they are doing. You are appreciated more than you know!

Lastly, I would like to thank the chapters and their coordinators for such great work this year communicating with me, providing critical feedback, and working together to make sure our chapters are strong and thriving. Our future is bright, and you are a large part of this organization’s success!

As we begin to shift back to “normal”, continue sharing NEBB, promoting NEBB, and being NEBB. I hope to see you all in November!

Jon Sheppard
NEBB President

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