"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
President’s Letter
Well, here we are already in the second month of the new year, and it continues to
look like a great year for the chapter. The January mock trial was a great success and
attracted a great deal of recognition for the chapter here in Columbus and the
surrounding area. I hope we can keep up the momentum for the rest of the year,
including a very successful April seminar.
I want to take a moment here to extend congratulations from myself and the chapter to
Mike Purington. Mike successfully passed the sixth test of the CRM certification and
now can add CRM behind his name in addition to the CDIA certification he already
has. So if you see or talk to Mike, take the time to congratulate him personally on his
achievement. This brings our total chapter CRM count to 5, and there currently 6
others who are beginning the process or have already started. This I think is a very
positive step.
As I have been actively searching the job boards for a new records position, it is
becoming increasingly apparent that a CRM certification is gaining a higher recognition
among potential employers. They are stating in their requirements that you be a CRM,
working towards, or be willing to go through the process. So I recommend to all of you
to go out to the ICRM website (www.icrm.org) and review the requirements. I see it as
the role of ARMA and particularly the chapter to promote records education and
professional status for its members, and becoming a CRM is the culmination of that
process.
There is currently a study group that has been formed for those seeking certification,
and I hope that this will be an ongoing situation. I think that is enough soap-boxing for
the moment. I hope to see everyone at the February meeting, and if not have a great
month until I’m forced to write again.
- Roger
Nominations For Elections
MAXIMIZE YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET- YOURSELF
Arma is looking for highly effective leaders to join the Greater Columbus Chapter
Board of Directors.
The Nominations committee will form this month, which is chaired by the Immediate
Past President. The committee will identify candidates and solicit nominations for the
following board positions…
President-Elect/Program Chair: Responsible for arranging speakers for monthly
Chapter meetings; works in close coordination with Corresponding Secretary and
President to arrange monthly Chapter meetings; attends monthly Chapter board
meetings and Chapter meetings. This is a 3-year commitment.
Recording Secretary; Responsible for recording the Board of Directors meeting
minutes and the distribution of the minutes to the Board and the newsletter. This is a
one-year commitment.
Corresponding Secretary: Responsible for arranging all meetings, taking all
reservations and coordinating needs of the speaker at the meeting locale. Informing
the newsletter director of all meeting location information and details. This is a oneyear commitment.
Membership Director: Responsible for overseeing recruitment efforts, follow up on
potential chapter membership inquiries, encourages current members to retain and
conserve their membership. This is a two-year commitment.
Webmaster: Responsible for updating content, change the date revised, approve new
material, format the information, upload the content to web site, approve design
changes and new links and pages, manage the contract with the ISP and web host.
This is a one-year commitment.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU BECOME SUCCESSFUL THE MOMENT YOU START
MOVING TOWARD A WORTHWHILE GOAL?
YESTERDAY’S DREAM… TODAY’S POSSIBLITY…TOMORROW’S REALITY
The original Franklin County Courthouse.
Courtesy of Ghosts of Columbus Past
http://columbusoh.about.com/library/blgone.htm
As it were
Fire destroyed early records of Columbus
Article written by Ed Lentz, History Columnist for ThisWeekWesterville community publication, Commentary & Opinion
section, January 22, 2004.
On Feb. 1, 1879, Beal E Poste, chief clerk to the county records of Franklin County,
Ohio avoided a horse-drawn streetcar and walked up the steps to the Franklin County
Courthouse at Mound and High streets.
This was not the government building that is at that site today. It was not even the
courthouse that older residents may remember sitting on that site for years before its
removal in the 1970s. Rather, this was a Greek Revival temple that had been built on the
site in 1840 fir a town of a few thousand people.
In 1879, Columbus was a city of more than 50,000 people in a county of more than
85,000. Like many public buildings in the city the courthouse had been too small for quite
some time.
To cope with the problem of where to put valuable records in a building with no
remaining space, county officials had built a massive, on-story brick vault adjacent to the
courthouse come years before. The primary way to enter the vault was through a double set
of iron doors in the recorder’s office. An iron-shuttered window was in the wall across from
the doors. The vault was 14-feet by 16-feet with a stone floor, hollow brick walls and a brick
ceiling supported by iron pillars.
Inside the vault on wooden shelves were the mortgage and deed records of Franklin
County, as well as the original plat map of the city as laid out by Joel Wright. The vault was
considered to be absolutely fireproof and safe from burglars and other intruders. It wasn’t.
When Chief Clerk Poste opened his office and crossed the room to open the doors to the
vault, he noted to his horror and consternation that the outer iron door was hot to the touch.
When he opened those doors, a plume of smoke entered his office from the gap between the
outer and inner doors. Opening the inner doors released a huge cloud of smoke into the
courthouse. Beyond the smoke, Mr. Poste could see the contents of the vault were burning.
The local fire department responded promptly and soon extinguished the fire. But the damage
had already been done. Someone had entered the vault, folded several of the oldest record
books back on their spines, covered them with coal oil, lit them and closed the doors upon
leaving.
The only reason the fire had not spread faster and consumed the contents of the entire
vault were that the building had been built too well. The brick structure was virtually airtight.
The fire burned for a bit and then smoldered and smoked. When Mr. Poste opened the door,
the fire began again in earnest but was then rapidly extinguished. Damage from the fire was
significant. Many of their records of deeds were lost, as were the original records of land
sales in 1812 by the proprietors of Columbus. The records of more than 11,5000 properties
were lost.
In the months that followed, it became clear that security was not the strongest suit in the
recorder’s office. The vault itself was fireproof, but the staff was in the habit of leaving the
outer iron doors unlocked. The inner door was secure with a simple Yale lock. There were
keys to the lock, but in the previous six months, on e of the keys had been in the hands of
four different people for from one to 10 days.
One man was arrested and charged with the crime. But after a preliminary hearing, he
was released and no one else was ever charged. To this day, the identity of the person who
set the fire is not known.
In the next few years, some good came from this terrible experience. Several private
firms had been actively abstracting the county’s records for a number of years. So the lost
information- protecting the rights of the property owners- was available and restored, at least
in summary form. And the fire was the final piece of evidence needed to convince
officeholders and the public that the time had come to build a new courthouse.
By 1885, that new courthouse was open and would last considerably longer than its illfated predecessor. But the original plat map of Columbus was destroyed. The records
burned in this fire, combined with the records lost in the Columbus City Hall fire of 1921,
meant that much of the remaining evidence of how Columbus was originally settled was
gone.
There is much about the early history of the city that we still do not know. We may never
know, unless someone has kept copies of some of those lose records and passed them
down through their family from that time to our own. I would like to believe that that is the
case and that that person will drop me a note some day. It will be well worth the wait.
FEBRUARY ARMA BOARD MEETING – GREATER COLUMBUS CHAPTER
Face-to-face meeting held February 10, 2004 at Easton Community Room
Board members present – Larry Bauman, Eugenia Brumm, Diana Dellinger, Roger
Hansen, Yvonne Harris, Jim Tullis, Debbie Voronkov. Guest – Michael Brandt
Roger opened the meeting at 6:15 pm. Minutes from the January board meeting
and the treasurer’s report could not be approved due to lack of a quorum.
Checkbook balance as of January 30, 2004 was $10,493.56.
Programming – Yvonne reported that there were twelve persons attending the
ARMA Webinar on Vital Records and Standards held February 10th at Accenture.
Thanks to Kathy Beatty and Accenture for hosting the Webinar with the pizza and
salad lunch.
February 19th – The Chapter presents Bessie Schina, University Records Manager
from Wright State University whose topic is “Have I Deleted Anything Lately?”
Registration is at 2:30 pm at the Concourse Hotel.
March 18th – topic is “Information Assets – The Hows, Whats and Whys” by Mr.
Goeble. Yvonne is looking for a location for the June meeting, which is our
election of officers.
Marketing – Larry has added to his marketing lists the Ohio Library Association.
Other discussion suggested “CEO” – the magazine from Columbus’s Chamber of
Commerce, Business First and The Columbus Dispatch. See if we can get an
article on records management published or at least see about advertisement for
upcoming seminar.
Seminar –No new information reported. The seminar is set for April 2nd. Dean
McKinney from BMS CAT will speak on “Records Recovery 101- Disaster Recovery
Planning”. Chris Bauer of Tennessee will be speaking on “This is Your
Company’s Wake Up Call”.
Newsletter – No new information reported.
Community Service – Still looking for new community service ideas, especially if
they involve records management. Yvonne suggested any non-profit groups that
could use help.
By-Laws – This committee is working diligently to update our chapter by-laws,
they are now on the fourth draft. Target date is by May or June. Members
include: Yvonne Harris, Debbie Voronkov, Mike Johnson, Cathy Garrett, Kelly
Kemmerling.
Educational Grant Committee – No report.
New Business – Website content, Access and Security – Question raised – do we
know how many hits we receive on this website? Discussion as to whether to
have more security and give passwords to ARMA members. Tabled until more
representation.
Nomination Committee – Eugenia as our Chairman of the Board will make
contacts for Vice President, Membership and Webmaster. Nominations will be
announced in March and April. The ballet will go out in May and the vote taken in
June.
Library – Suggested previously use of chapter money to purchase educational
materials that could be shared. One idea is to spend $1500, to purchase Mark
Langemo’s CD training along with a few other items. Our chapter’s purpose is to
educate, so Roger will put together a list of resources we may already have.
Tabled until vote could be taken.
Guest policy – Idea to allow each member to bring a guest (boss, etc) for one free
meeting, especially in May for ISO Compliance. Another idea – charge $10.00 for
member, $15.00 for organization so several could attend. Table voting until
March.
Decision to have more teleconference meetings to have enough for quorum, with
possibly two “face-to-face” meetings during the year.
The meeting adjourned around 7:30 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
- Diana Dellinger, Board Recording Secretary
Happy New Year ARMA!!
ARMA Professionals,
Spring is quickly approaching and I for one…am looking forward to
sunshine and rejuvenation!
While we still have a few cold, grayish days left this winter, it would be a
great time to fill in a Member Profile form so I can highlight you in an
upcoming Newsletter!
In fact, nothing says we can’t publish more than one per month so I will
include as many profiles as I receive.
In an effort to live by my requests to you (I didn’t have any others to
submit) – this month features one of your tamest members – me!
Remember as your reading through it – what happens at ARMA stays at
ARMA! ;-)
- Al Jameson
MEMBER PROFILE
Name: Al Jameson
Current Employer: Results Engineering
Main Work Responsibilities and Accomplishments: District Sales Manager with responsibility
for sales and management in our Document Management and Accounts Payable Workflow
practices. My vertical focus includes Finance, Retail, Insurance, Logistics, and State Government.
Challenge and opportunity often being the same… much time is spent understanding and partnering
with sophisticated software in Image Capture, Document Management and Workflow to leverage
Best-of-Breed client solutions.
Recent Accomplishments: Building a Catapult with my 5th grader for a school project. The
assignment clearly stated that parents were only to ‘help’ and the catapult could be built with
household items. RIGHT!! I spent 32 hours and $100.00 at Home Depot just to get the thing to
work.
Before Working Here – An IT Security Firm serving clients in the Midwest and East Coast.
Personal and Family Information: Married with two girls – any advice?
If I won $25 Million in the lottery, I Would: Open a bait store in Tennessee and drive the biggest
pick-up truck you’ve ever seen. I’d give 13 night-crawlers for the dozen price and Moon Pies would
be free. Might need a divorce lawyer though – wife doesn’t like to fish or eat Moon Pies.
Favorite:
TV Shows:
Movies:
Books:
Music:
Places to Visit:
Survivor (I’m simple)
The Cowboys (circa John Wayne)
Anything from Dale Carnegie
Country and classic rock
Anywhere out of cellular range
ARMA Experiences: I haven’t traveled with you guys yet. Is that what you mean? ;-)
My Pet (s): German Shepherd and a Guinea Pig. Thank God the rabbit died.
I Collect: Bills. I am better at accumulating bills than anyone else.
Anything Else: I have never been convicted of anything.
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Roger Hansen, President
[email protected]
Owens Corning (740) 321-3019
Eugenia Brumm, Chairperson of the Board
[email protected]
Owens Corning (740) 321-3009
Yvonne Harris, Vice President
[email protected]
Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund (614) 628-8260
Kathy Beatty, Treasurer
[email protected]
Accenture (614) 629-2700
2003/2004
Greater Columbus
ARMA Chapter
Board
Of
Directors
Diana Dellinger, Recording Secretary
[email protected]
Roxanne Laboratories (614) 276-4000 ext. 2343
Jim Tullis, Corresponding Secretary
[email protected]
Central Business Group (614) 228-712
Deb Voronkov, Great Lakes Region Representative
[email protected]
State Teachers Retirement System (614) 228-7123
Andi Snyder, Community Relations
[email protected]
Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund (614) 628-8450
Sherri Nichelson, Seminar Leader
[email protected]
Owens Corning (740) 321-300
Larry Bauman, Marketing
[email protected]
AEP (614) 883-7460
Mike Purington, Web Master
[email protected]
Owens Corning (740) 321-3023
Al Jameson, Newsletter
[email protected]
Results Engineering (614) 638-5220