Since last press date, new nominations and campaign statements have come in, viz.:

Editor - Tim Watson
Director, Region 2 - Scott Boyd
Director, Region 4 - David Maye
Director, Region 9 - Mark Kramer

Editor - Tim Watson

(endorsement statement by President Greg Schlosser)

Tim is a VERY enthusiastic gamer who plays ANY type of game, from the traditional wargames to German style games. He also enjoys computer games and will dabble in miniatures from time to time. He is very knowledgeable and intelligent and is a whiz on the computer. The same can be said about his wife Vickie. What's even better, Vickie is a complete computer enthusiast and is one of the most creative people I've ever met. It is simply amazing what they both can do on the computer. They both handle all ofthe decorations for our Gulf Games conventions and it is simply stunning.

Vickie has extensive experience with Microsoft Publisher and has produced newsletters for several organizations and firms.

I've spoken to them both and they are anxious to take on these duties. I know they will do a splendid job.

Director, Region 4 - Craig Berg

(Craig's campaign statement did not make it into the last issue)

I started my "German" gaming about 4 years ago and in that time have become quite an evangelist. I have the distinction of having started lunchtime gaming groups at my place of work with at least three different groups (all in different buildings).

I've always been rather vocal about the benefits of playing boardgames (quality family time, etc.) and have introduced a number of different people from different places to these wonderful games.

One of the things I have been thinking of doing is exactly what Dave Bernazzani has just pulled off with his Unity Game Day. I know of at least 4 different gaming groups in Northeast Ohio and have been looking around for an affordable place for us to meet, whether it is once or twice a year. As a Regional Director for SGS I would possibly expand the scope of this gathering to other groups in the surrounding areas (I also know of a group in Cincinnati, but that may be too far away for a day of gaming - about 4.5 hours ... but you never know!).

Anyway. I would enjoy being a Regional Director for SGS because I feel like I would be making a difference and helping move our hobby along.

Vice President - Erik Arneson

(Erik's campaign statement didn't make the last issue, so here it is now)

It truly is an honor to ask for your support as VicePresident of the Strategy Gaming society. A brief gaming background. The first games I remember playing are Monopoly, Risk, Clue and other Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers standards. In college, Risk became my pastime of choice. Now, as I quickly approach the age of 30, German-style strategy games have become an obsession. I maintain About.com's Board Games site (http://boardgames.about.com/) and by doing so have grown even more devoted to our wonderful hobby -- the number of great games produced every year is nothing short of remarkable.

As Vice-President of the SGS, I would serve as the President's assistant. working with him to strengthen the SGS and make it an even more vital organization. Many exciting things have taken place in the last year -- such as our new SGS Web site, development of the Worldwide Garners Database, the 8x8 game design competition, an ever-improving Strategist, and (last but not least) strong membership growth -- and I look forward to the opportunity to help add to that list of accomplishments in 2001.

Membership Secretary - Richard Gutenkunst

(endorsement statement by Mark A. Kramer)

Over the past year, Mr. Gutenkunst has fulfilled the Constitutional mandate of tile office of Membership Secretary with efficiency, patience and good humor. If he is in the market for the job for another year, the Society will be well served indeed to have him there.

Director, Region 9 - Mark A. Kramer

When I asked the membership of Region 9 to entrust me with the office of Director last year, the hobby had taken its worst body-blows since the demise of SPI. There was a lot of pessimism that the doomsayers that have been heralding the death of board wargaming for the past 25 years were finally going to [be] right. Well, they were (thankfully) wrong again, as usual. New (albeit smaller) publishers have filled the vacuum left by Avalon Hill and the hobby is in the midst of its second great "selfpublished" renaissance (the first one was the five years before SPI become (sic) of age, between 1967 and 1972).

I said a year ago that the Society was the organization best suited to meet the needs of gamers everywhere. I believe the Society is even closer to fulfilling that promise, Under a more activist leadership at the highest levels, membership is at an all-time high. I would like to think that I have done some small part for this in the half-dozen or so fellow gamers that I have pestered, begged and cajoled into joining the Society.

It was not too long ago that this huge Region did not even have a Director. I believe that I have taken an active part in the workings of Society governance and have made a positive impact doing so. I count as my main accomplishment the motion allowing the creation of Society membership cards. If reelected, I will continue to take as active a role r as I can in the Directorate.

I have lived up to my promise of promoting the Society at local conventions and merchants and if all of those Xeroxed fliers did not result in new members right away, the awareness of the Society has been well raised. I have also successfully negotiated a 20% discount off direct purchases from Pacific Rim Publishing for all Society members (no coupons required and a use for all of those nifty membership cards that the Membership Secretary has been making).

The small (and it will be small) newsletter featuring items of interest to Region members will be sent out before the end of the year.

I think that my first term as Director of Region 9 has been successful and I am hoping that you will entrust me with a second term. If elected, I will continue to advocate the Society at every gaming venue I attend. I will through my modest connections within the hobby and through any region members that I can press into service, further the presence of the Society to the at large members of the Region's gaming community. I shall work to make the Society irresistible to new I ' and rejoining) members by securing discounts and perquisites and other privileges conferred by active membership in the Society. I will offer memberships as prizes at local gaming activities and do my best to persuade other Region members to for forth in a likewise evangelical manner. I will also publish a small newsletter with items of regional interest at least once in the calendar year of 2001 and post it to all Region Nine residents. All of these activities I will undertake at my own expense in the interest of furthering the Hobby and the Society.

Director, Region 11--John Kula

At 6-5" and 290 pounds, it is not inappropriate that I represent the largest region of the SGS-- by land mass. I will continue to support gaming and the SGS, particularly those aspects which are non-American (as opposed to unAmerican). Viva "Quebec Libre" (another fine board wargame from Simulations Canada).