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Its that time of the month
again…where I look thru our archives to find a snap-shot of time
that may be interesting to the members of the Long Island Chapter of
Ashrae. As I Was looking through one of the giant binders we have I
happened upon a 1990 Ashrae News Paper. This paper came directly
from Headquarters in Atlanta and was full of honors and awards.
As I scrolled through these
pages I found an entire article on a lady named Doris Flandorffer.
It was an article describing how she retired after 34 years of
service to the Society. I thought it was interesting that we had
kept this article, after all this lady was the “Secretary to Mr.
Boggs”. Mr. Boggs was the Executive Vice President of the Society
which we know to be based out of Atlanta. Well it was not until 1980
that the decision was made to Move the Society to Atlanta. Doris
started her Ashrae career right her in New York and even served on
committees here in the Long Island Chapter. She started locally and
continued to grow with Ashrae for over 30 years. In that time she
changed titles several times from Assistant to Mr. Boggs to
Assistant to the Board of Governors. She never missed an ASHRAE
meeting except one in 1964, which means she attended over 120 Board
of Directors meetings. She was considered an expert in Ashrae
regulatory documents, the Rules of the Board of Directors and the
Society Bylaws.
Although I could not find too much
information about Doris out on the Web, when I did a search I did
see her name span decades worth of Ashrae paperwork. She clearly was
involved in many aspects of the keeping our society in compliance
with the rules it created over the years.
When Doris retired she was quoted as
telling all the young people who want to get involved with Ashrae
“learn as much as you can about the organization, what it does, why
it exists in the world, and what value it serves, try to do your job
as best you can.” These words can be used in our professional life
as well as our personal and the volunteer work we do. We are all
here as members as Ashrae for various reasons, but most importantly
we are here to help the society grow and to continue striving for a
better tomorrow.
Carolyn Arote
Chapter Historian
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