Distributors' group starts search for new president as Nappi moves.Ralph J. Nappi, who has been with the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of Machine Tool Distributors' Assn. (Rockville Rockville, city (1990 pop. 44,835), seat of Montgomery co., W central Md., a NW suburb of Washington, D.C.; settled c.1760s, inc. as a city 1860. It has several scientific research and technology laboratories that focus on the aerospace, electronics, nuclear energy, , Md.) for 19 years and has served as its president for 12 years, will depart the 300-company-membership trade association in mid-October n. 1. the middle part of October. Noun 1. mid-October - the middle part of October period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" . He will move to become president of NPES NPES Non-Propulsion Electronic Systems NPES Nuclear Planning and Execution System (US DoD) NPES Association for Suppliers of Printing and Publishing Technology , the Assn. for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (Reston, Va.). The AMTDA AMTDA American Machine Tool Distributors Association board of directors' executive committee is serving as the search committee to find a new head staffer. The board is chaired by James C. Addy, CMTSE, president of Addy Machinery Co. Inc. (Clinton, Mich.), and the search process is being led by board member and former chairman (1994-95), John F. Hackenberg, CMTSE, president of J&H Machine Tools, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.). The board requested that a present AMTDA staff member be represented during the search; Debbie Vieder, AMTDA director of education and communication, fills that role. Nappi, 47, will remain in his current role throughout the next semiannual Semiannual An event that occurs twice in a calendar year. Notes: A bond with semiannual coupons would issue payment once every six months. See also: Annual, Bond, Coupon Bond meeting of the distributors' group, this year held as a joint meeting with AMT--The Assn. for Mfg. Technology, Oct. 2-5 in Washington, D.C. The organization he moves to represents over 400 companies that manufacture and distribute equipment and supplies used in printing and publishing, and it also houses the offices of a graphic-arts-show company and an education foundation. Ralph Nappi became president of AMTDA in late 1993. He had been its vice president and was highly regarded by the members and staff when he accepted a post with another trade association in Chicago. Before he could depart, however, then-president Robert A. Gale resigned, and Nappi was induced induced /in·duced/ (in-dldbomacst´) 1. produced artificially. 2. produced by induction. induced, adj artificially caused to occur. induced induction. to stay as head staffer at AMTDA (www.amtda.org). The current president will also remain with AMTDA for its next major trade show, the Mid-Atlantic Machine Tool Show, scheduled for Oct. 18-20 outside Philadelphia. Amer. Machine Tool Distributors' Assn., Rockville, Md. 301-738-1200 |
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