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Boyer To Retire As AOPA President At End Of 2008
------------------------------------------------------------------- AVwebALERT AVweb Breaking News Alert -- June 30, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Boyer to Retire, Craig Fuller New AOPA President AOPA'S BOYER RETIRING, NEW PRESIDENT CRAIG FULLER (http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...9820 6-1.html) AOPA President Phil Boyer, who's been hinting at retirement for several years, announced today that he'll "get my life back" at the end of this year after 18 years as president of AOPA. Replacing him will be Craig Fuller, a former Washington heavyweight who is currently executive vice president at the Washington PR firm of APCO Worldwide. He came to Washington as President Ronald Reagan's assistant for cabinet affairs and served as Vice President George H.W. Bush's chief of staff. Fuller has been a pilot for 40 years and "is as comfortable with fellow pilots and 'hangar talk' as he is facing a Congressional committee," said AOPA Chairman William C. Trimble III. .... Click here to read Boyer's note to the press (http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...820 6-1.html). Fuller learned to fly at Buchanan Field in Concord, California, while still in high school and flew with the UCLA flying club at Van Nuys while earning a B.A. in political science. He has a Master's degree in urban studies from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where business travel in his early public affairs career fostered purchase of a Cessna 172RG Cutlass based at Santa Monica. He now logs 200+ hours a year in his Beech Bonanza A36. He is a director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, active in The Aspen Institute and a former trustee of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library Foundation. He and wife Karen reside in Northern Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. |
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Boyer To Retire As AOPA President At End Of 2008
I had dinner with Phil about 2 years ago. To be honest, he didn't look
anything like his pictures up close. From a distance he looks the same but he's aged a lot. -Robert |
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Boyer To Retire As AOPA President At End Of 2008
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:47:47 -0700 (PDT), "Robert M. Gary"
wrote in : I had dinner with Phil about 2 years ago. To be honest, he didn't look anything like his pictures up close. From a distance he looks the same but he's aged a lot. -Robert Boyer has done a lot for AOPA and pilots. His service certainly entitles him to a well deserved rest. But the close Bush ties of his successor worry me. Time will tell... |
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Boyer To Retire As AOPA President At End Of 2008
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:20:50 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote in : On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:47:47 -0700 (PDT), "Robert M. Gary" wrote in : I had dinner with Phil about 2 years ago. To be honest, he didn't look anything like his pictures up close. From a distance he looks the same but he's aged a lot. -Robert Boyer has done a lot for AOPA and pilots. His service certainly entitles him to a well deserved rest. But the close Bush ties of his successor worry me. Time will tell... Here's a link to the press releases of the firm from which Boyer's replacement comes: http://www.apcoworldwide.com/content...index.cfm?id=2 |
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