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Jerry Engh on the mend….
We thought his many friends in the Devon world would want to know: We saw Jerry Engh at Lakota Ranch today. Jerry suffered a stroke a few weeks ago but he’s not only up….he’s running. And supervising things at Lakota from a 4-wheeler. He does have some mild paralysis but my non-professional diagnosis is that it will pass. The major problem, Jeremy tells us, is holding his Dad down. Jerry says he expects to be on hand for the joint meeting of the two Devon associations in September…a meeting that should heal the breech between the two organizations.
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It’s about time….
The boards of directors of the major Devon organizations in the United States have now voted, in principal, to a merger of the two associations. While the proverbial “devil is in the details”, this is the first time after two years of flirting, that a date for the marriage has been set. The expectation is that the final agreement will come at a joint membership meeting of ADCA and NADA in North Carolina September 26th-28th. NADA split off from ADCA six years ago in a bitter dispute over then-president Gearld Fry’s plans to enlarge the board and change some of its officers. He left ADCA and established the North American Devon Association,…