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EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR’S BRIEF

We could have exceeded 1,000 on several occasions, but a
Dear Members, percentage of applicants are rejected as screening is done
and some do not meet our standards. Please keep recruiting
What an exciting time for WAD! We are just months away quality applicants for WAD. We get some very good people
from our 100th Anniversary Celebration at the Drake Hotel that way.
in Chicago in September 2025. So many members have
been looking forward to this event, and here it is on our Be sure to put our 99th Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur
doorstep. The Drake Hotel opened in 1920, just 5 years on your calendar. We will be staying at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
before WAD was founded by William Flynn, former Director September 24 through 28, and pricing is very reasonable
of the FBI and former Secret Service Director. with rooms priced starting at approximately US$140. Siti
Naidu will be hosting this conference, and we look forward
WAD has such a fascinating history. You will learn more in to a wonderful time.
the weeks and months to come as we prepare for Chicago.

I announced at our Annual Conference in Chicago that we Respectfully Submitted
were at our highest membership number ever at 977. We
requested our members to think of a friend that would be
a great addition to the WAD membership and ask them to
join. The result is that we have now reached 993 members Bob Heales
as I write this. We are just 7 away from that elusive 1,000
membership number in over 85 countries. Executive Director and Association Manager

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