This note to me is from a meeting planner who also teaches a class in the Travel and Tourism School at the College of Dupage located just outside of Chicago.  

A meeting planner, Marianne, emailed me asking me to speak to her students last minute. However,  I was too busy with appointments in the city that day to make it back into the suburbs to speak and had to decline “initially”.

However, I had felt an overwhelming desire to help our future and really wanted to speak to the kids. Therefore, at the last minute,  I cancelled all of my appointments to make a point of being there to help our future.  The following note makes it all worth while and I hope it will inspire you to do the same when you “receive the call”!

Jim, Jim, Jim…..

I can never thank you enough for addressing the Incentive Travel Planning Class last evening.

Amanda and I spoke this morning and she told me you were “great”!  That you presented the perspective of the DMC discipline as it needed to be presented and then built the tenuous relationship back up from there.

I'm booking you right now for the Fall!!!!!  I will be teaching a fundamentals of Meeting and Event Planning at that time, but same DMC issues will prevail and I want all the students who come through my classes to understand that there are lifelines out there - great ones - and there is nothing better than a client who raves about the success of his meeting/event.  And you know it is because you were smart enough to partner with the right people.

Bless you!  And thank you again and again.

Best regards,

Marianne

Marianne McNulty, CMP, CTIE
Your Right Source, LLC/ The Meeting Connection
241 Belle Vue Lane
Sugar Grove, IL 60554-9477

One is never too busy to help our industry’s future.   I was also happy to see the PCMA is supporting this group at the College of Dupage.  They provide a student program and also student memberships.  The PCMA publications and sign up forms were everywhere!  I was surprised, however, to not see one MPI magazine or publication.  I would recommend that MPI gets more involved to help these kids.  They are truly motivated, and are truly our next generation of meeting professional. 

Chicago-based Kitchen Film Productions, Ltd. is proud to announce that
they and Echelon Entertainment 2 based in Glendale, California have
reached an agreement for the worldwide distribution of their first
feature film, “Legit”.

“Legit” is the story is about a man who decides to do the unthinkable:
get out of the mob. With the city of Chicago as its’ backdrop, follow
the story of one man who tries to beat the odds without ever having to
fix the numbers.

“Legit” director and company President, James W. Boinski said, “after
reviewing multiple offers from various distributors, we feel that
Kitchen Film Productions and Echelon Entertainment 2 are a perfect
match.”

Echelon Entertainment 2  is  a motion picture development, production,
and distribution company with an eighteen year history in international
sales. 

By signing with Echelon Entertainment 2, “Legit” will join a
library of current films that star Martin Landau, Jennifer Tilly, and
Mike Myers.  “We are very excited to be adding 'Legit' to our current library of films.
This acquisition adds something unique to our catalogue, and we look forward
to representing it around the world,” said Amanda Filla, Senior VP of Acquisitions.

For more information, visit www.EchelonEnt.com and the official movie
website at www.legitthemovie.com.

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Ravinia Festival’s 2006 season runs from June 1 through September 16. For ticket information, call (847) 266-5100. The complete season lineup follows. Note that artists and programs are subject to change. Repertoire being performed at Ravinia for the first time is marked with an asterisk (*). Artists making their Ravinia debut are marked with a plus

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JUNE 2006

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