Wishing Broadbooks well in his career change and welcoming Graham to the APME board

Jon Broadbooks

Jon Broadbooks, who has been a champion for APME and a super board member, is turning the page and leaving the newspaper business.

Broadbooks, executive editor of the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., is moving to a new office in town to work for the Illinois Association of Realtors as communications director.

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1157706016/SJ-R-editor-Jon-Broadbooks-resigns-to-take-new-job

We wish him well and thank him for his great work, which included serving as program chair for APME St. Louis, a great conference in 2009.

Gary Graham

Taking Broadbooks' seat on the board will be Gary Graham, editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.

As is our practice, we asked the next top vote-getter in the most recent election to fill a vacancy. Graham finished in that spot in the Denver voting.

Welcome Gary. His addition gives the Northwest even more clout. The contingent now includes Laura Sellers-Earl, Bill Church, Jim Simon and Graham — all from Oregon and Washington.

See everyone in New York.

-- Bob Heisse