The firm of Sramek Hightower hosted the meeting, with partner Karola Moore as the point person.  A productive meeting was held, as member firms from across America sent representatives.  The group welcomed Jack Curnow from Curnow & Co., Bellingham, Washington, its newest member firm.  Also attending were Richard and Ann White from Timaru, New Zealand.  Richard serves as President of the worldwide group of IAPA, and he and Ann traveled on to London for the annual IAPA Executive Committee meeting.

Among other things, the group discussed recruiting, and heard reports of results from the IAPA booth at the recent AICPA Practitioners Symposium in Las Vegas, which was manned by Minty Rosenhouse (Dallas) and Clint Bateman (Houston).  Plans are already under way for next year's Americas Group meeting tentatively planned for Phoenix.

Following are some pictures from the meeting.

Pictured above are (L to R):  Richard White (President of IAPA), Herb Alexander (Americas Group representative to IAPA), Minton Rosenhouse (Vice President of Americas Group), Clint Bateman (President of Americas Group), and Jim Mulroy (Secretary of Americas Group).

Members and spouses take a break for lunch.  Clockwise from left are (top picture):  Jack Hunter, Debra Hunter, Olivier de Jong, Clint Bateman, Karola Moore, Jim Anderson, Rachel Anderson, and Heather Hunter; (bottom picture):  Richard White, Herb Alexander, Joel Aronson, Lynne Werner, Roger Werner, Maura Alexander, Pam Aronson, and Ann White.

Members deliberate. (Top picture):  Jack Curnow, Bob Sramek, Joel Aronson and John Abitante.  (Bottom picture):  Karola Moore, Clay Hightower, and Ray Grundhauser.

Discussing the effects of global warming on international tax and accounting.