Incoming 2012-3 CFC Governors

[Michael von Keitz]

2012-3 Governors – Names ( edited and updated to 14/7/07 )

1. Provincial Rep. Governors – 37 + 3 Vacancies ( note – all executive who are provincial representative governors or past presidents, except President and Past President, remain such );.

AB 4
Rick Pedersen
Simon Ong
Vlad Rekhson
Terry Seehagen
BC 5
Lyle Craver
Mark Dutton
Paul Leblanc
Ken Jensen
Alonso Campos
MB 2
Ken Einarsson
( Vacant )
NB 2
Ken Craft
George Hensel
NL 1
Alick Tsui
NS 1
Chris Felix
NU 0
NWT 0
ON 19:
GTCL – 8
Michael Barron
Ilia Bluvshtein
Egis Zeromskis
Vladimir Birarov
Bob Armstrong
Nikolay Noritsyn
Marcus Wilker
Chris Field
SWOCL – 6
Lee Hendon
Chris Mallon
Garvin Nunes
Patrick McDonald
Rob Clark
Frank Lee
EOCA – 4
Aris Marghetis
Robert Laszlo
Kevin Pacey
Gordon Ritchie
NOCL – 1
Ellen Nadeau
PE 1
Fred McKim
QC 3
Hugh Brodie
Marc Poulin
Félix Dumont
SK 1
( Vacant )
YT 1
( Vacant )

Total 37 + 3 Vacancies ( Yukon Territories entitled to a governor, but one not appointed; other 2 Territories are not yet entitled to a governor; Saskatchewan and Manitoba with one vacancy each )

Note: Changes from 2011-2 are that B.C., New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec all have 1 more governor. Yukon Territory is entitled to 1 governor ( They were also last year, but a governor was never appointed ). So there are 37 + 3 Vacant prov. rep. governors this year, compared with 35 + 1 vacancy last year.

2. Governors at large – 20 + 2 Vacancies

A - Executive – 2
President - Michael von Keitz
Immediate Past President – Bob Gillanders
B. – Non-Executive Officers – 2
Masters' Representative – Vlad Drkulec
Women's Coordinator – vacant ( Iulia Lacau-Rodean to be ratified )
( ( a) Director of Fund-raising ( vacant ); Public Relations Coordinator ( Armstrong ) and Rating Auditor ( Leblanc ) are prov. reps. ( b) Tournament Coordinator - Dénommée )
C – Other Organizations – 2
Chess Foundation of Canada - Lynn Stringer
Canadian Correspondence Chess Association - Valer Eugen Demian
D - Canadian Champion and Runner-Up – 2
Bator Sambuev
Eric Hansen
E – Former CFC Presidents ( some Life Governors ) – 13
( i ) Life Governors - 9
• Phil Haley
• Les Bunning
• Terry Fleming
• Francisco Cabanas
• Peter Stockhausen
• Maurice Smith
• Yves Farges
• Halldor Palsson
• Bruce D Thomas

( ii ) Presidents in the past 5 years ( Excluding the Past President ) – 4
Bob Gillanders (also see Immediate Past President above)
Eric Van Dusen
David Lavin
Hal Bond

3. Total Governors - 57 + 5 vacancies ( pending the appointment of 2 outstanding officer positions and 3 provincial governorships )

Note: You can see from the above:

1. There are 9 former president life governors ( 2 term presidents, or appointed );
2. The President, when elected, is no longer a Provincial Representative governor – on becoming president, he becomes a governor-at-large. He has the power to appoint a replacement governor for himself from his home Province.

This list is complete as of 14/07/07.

[Michael von Keitz]

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