Siflinger and White nominated for Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010

We are pleased to announce that housing industry leaders, Marvin Siflinger and Eleanor White have accepted IREM's nomination for the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010. Siflinger is recognized as a national leader with over 40 years of experience in the field of public administration and housing and community development. Siflinger has successful senior management experience relating to organizational development and reinvention, strategic planning, annual business planning, staff development, profitability and media relations. White is recognized as a national leader in the fields of real estate and affordable housing, with over 40 years administering and participating in HUD multifamily programs and multifamily real estate financing and management, 28 years in the public sector at the federal and state levels (15 years as a Federal employee at HUD), and since 1995 in the private sector. She has administered the full gamut of housing programs, brings a keen understanding of how these programs function from both the Federal and State perspective, and has had the opportunity to initiate innovative programs of subsidy, financing, asset management, diversity, organizational management, assisted living, and social services. She is an author of the Chapter 40R and 40S programs in Massachusetts. We are honored to have the opportunity to recognize Siflinger and White for all of their contributions to the housing industry. Please join us on November 4th for dinner and the Presentation and Awards Ceremony held at Anthony's Pier 4 restaurant in Boston. We are also very excited that our IREM National president, Randall Woodbury, will be joining us at the annual IREM Golf Tournament on September 13th. Woodbury, CPM is corporate secretary and vice president in charge of property management for Woodbury Corporation, a family real estate firm since 1919. The firm specializes in developing and managing retail, office and hotel properties in the Western United States, mostly for its own portfolio. Nationally, Woodbury has served IREM on various committees, as a regional vice president and as a member of the executive committee. At the chapter level, he has served in many capacities including president of Utah Chapter No. 33 in 1992. He was honored by the chapter in 1993, 2000 and 2005 as its "CPM of the Year". Please join us in giving Randall a warm welcome to our great city and chapter. Please feel free to contact Kelley A. Hannon at our Boston Office at (617) 436-7565. In addition, further information on the above events or to view our complete 2010 scedule can be found at www.iremboston.org. Rob Crowley, ARM, CPM, is the 2010 president of IREM Boston Chapter # 4.