IAFC Conference Program to Cover Broad Range of Topics in Cincinnati
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IAFC Confrence
—photo courtesy Mayhem Photographers.
Cincinnati-on-the-Ohio, one of America’s finer cities, will be the scene of the 105th Annual Conference of the International Association of Fire Chiefs beginning on September 10th with the official opening and ending on September 14th with the newly elected president handling the gavel at the final business session. Registration for the conference begins on Saturday, September 9th and will continue through Wednesday, September 13th in the Cincinnati Convention Center where all conference sessions will be held.
The official opening of the conference starts at 3:30 p.m. with Chief John L. Swindle, president of the IAFC, and Host Chief Bert A. Lugananni presiding. Swindle, Lugananni and other Cincinnati officials will offer their greetings to the attendees. Following this, the traditional memorial services will be held.
Business session
All the major business sessions and conference proceedings will be held at the convention center complex. The first business session will be presided over by Chief Swindle starting at 10 a.m. Monday, September 11th. It will be followed by presentations from Chief Kenji Ojoka, Tokyo, Douglas Harman, city manager of Alexandria, Va., who will discuss “The City Manager’s View of the Fire Chief,” and William V. Donaldson, city manager, Cincinnati, who will cover “The City Manager’s View of the Fire Service.”
The second business session at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday will be conducted by Chief Jim Shern, first vice president. Business included in this meeting will cover a report on the IAFC Foundation by John F. Hurley, the foundation’s resident and a status report on the Executive Development II Grant by Chief David B. Gratz.
Wednesday’s third business session has Second Vice President R. S. Rockenbach presiding over a Fire Safety Education Panel that includes Trudy McKeon Daly, Hartford Insurance Company, Cathy Hynson, R. N., Ashland, Va., and Laura Buchbinder of the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration.
The Medical Advisory Committee will hold a separate business meeting at 9 a.m. on Monday. The various committees of the IAFC will meet as indicated in the following program.
Workshops, which have become standard for the IAFC conference in recent years, will take over the entire afternoons of Monday and Tuesday, with a separate session for each major committee: metropolitan, urban, volunteer, and medical.
The Metropolitan Chiefs will look at “Public Fire Protection Evaluation” and “Hazardous Materials—Problems and Solutions.” Another feature for this group will be an update on the National Fire Academy given by Superintendent Dave McCormack.
The Urban Chiefs program had not been established at the time of this writing, but the Volunteers Committee has come up with an interesting program. On Monday, there will be a panel discussion on the work done with breathing apparatus and fire fighters’ gloves by OSHA and NIOSH. Tuesday’s session will be given over to “Women in the Volunteer Fire Service.”
The Medical Advisory Council’s workshops consist of three presentations on EMS systems and one each on EMS communications and the EMT apprenticeship program.
The ladies program begins with a reception honoring Mrs. John Swindle and the wives and guests of the officers and directors of the IAFC at the Caprice Suite, Netherlands Hilton Hotel, on Sunday at 1 p.m. Monday includes a luncheon at the Hilton followed by a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the actors and actresses living the daytime soap operas, plus some clips of the earliest daytime dramas. Tuesday is a free day for the ladies, but no-host tours of selected area attractions are available.
However, the Ladies Hospitality Room will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at the Hilton. Information, demonstrations and light refreshments will be available.
Social activities
Social activities will really begin on Sunday night when the Box 15 holds its reception at Stouffer’s Towers Hotel beginning at 8 p.m. The reception includes dancing and refreshments— admission by invitation only.
Carrying on a tradition that was established at the IAFC conference in Boston 13 years ago, the Fire Equipment Manufacturers and Services Association will hold their renowned FEMSA Night in the Ballroom, Stouffers Hotel, on Tuesday at 8 p.m. Admission is open to all conference registrants (badge necessary) and their wives. Music and entertainment will consist of a six-piece band, a stand-up comedian, a singer who is a local TV personality, and Bob Thomas, the well-known virtuoso of banjo and guitar. Refreshments will be served as in the past.
Monday night will be hosted by Chief Lugananni and the Cincinnati Fire Department—a Septemberfest. It will be held outdoors at Yeatman’s Cave immediately to the east of the coliseum.
Finally, there is the 105th Annual Conference Banquet at the Netherlands Hilton Hotel in the Pavillion Caprice starting at 7 p.m. The evening includes the installation of officers which will be followed by entertainment.
Conference Program
Saturday, September 9
9:00 a.m.—IAFC Board of Directors meeting, Netherlands Hilton Hotel
12:00 noon—Luncheon, Board of Directors of IAFC, AMD, FAMD and FEMSA, Netherlands Hilton Hotel
2:00-7:00 p.m.—Registration, Cincinnati Convention Center
Sunday, September 10
9:00-7:00 p.m.—Registration, Convention Center
9:00 a.m.—Volunteer Committee meeting, Room 209
10:00 a.m.—Metropolitan Committee meeting. Room 206 Constitution and Bylaws Committee meeting. Room 203 Nominations and Elections Committee meeting, Room 203
10:00 a.m.—Arson Committee meeting, Room 229 Membership Committee meeting, Room 202
12:00 Noon—IAFC Foundation Board of Directors Meeting, Netherlands Hilton Hotel
1:00 p.m.—Urban Committee meeting, Room 211
1:30 p.m.—Fire Department and Safety Committee meeting, Room 203
Employee Relations Committee meeting, Room 229
Fire Prevention Committee meeting, Room 208
2:00 p.m.—Resolutions Committee meeting, Room 201
3:30 p.m.—Conference opens, President John L. Swindle, presiding
4:30 p.m.—Memorial Service
8:00 p.m.—Box 15 Club Reception, Stouffer’s Towers Hotel (admission by invitation)
Monday, September 11
7:30 a.m.—Division Breakfasts
8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.—Registration, Convention Center
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.—Exhibits, Convention Center
9:00 a.m.—Training and Education Committee meeting, Room 229
Medical Advisory Council, business meeting and technical session, Room 201
10:00 a.m.—First business session. Convention Center, President John L. Swindle presiding
10:45 a.m.—Chief Kenji Ojoka, president, International Fire Chiefs Association of Asia and Fire Chiefs Association of Japan; chief, Tokyo Fire Department
11:00 a.m.—The City Manager’s View of the Fire Chief, Douglas Harman, city manager, Alexandria, Va.
The City Manager’s View of the Fire Service, William V. Donaldson, city manager, Cincinnati, Ohio
12:00 noon—Recess for exhibits visitation and luncheon—Division luncheons
1:30 p.m.—Workshops convene (all workshops to be conducted in the Convention Center, second floor meeting rooms)
4:00 p.m.—Civil Defense Committee (Emergency Preparedness Committee) meeting, Room 227
4:30 p.m.—Research Committee meeting, Room 229
5:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.—Septemberfest, Yeatman’s Cove
Tuesday, September 12
7:30 a.m.—Division Breakfasts—Southeastern and Missouri Valley
8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.—registration
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.—Exhibits
9:30 a.m.—Second business session, Convention Center, First Vice President James H. Shern, presiding.
10:30 a.m.—Report of the International Association of Fire Chiefs Foundation, John F. Hurley, president
Status Report on the Executive Development II Grant, Chief David B.
Gratz, IAFCF project director
11:15 a.m.—To be announced
12:00 noon—Division Luncheons—Eastern Division
1:30 p.m.—Workshops convene
8:00 p.m.—A Night With FEMSA, Stouffer’s Towers Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Wednesday, September 13
8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon—Registration
8:30 a.m.-noon—Exhibits
9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon—Voting booths open adjacent to second-floor meeting rooms, lobby, Convention Center
9:30 a.m.—Third business session, Second Vice President R. S. Rockenbach, presiding
10:30 a.m.—Fire Safety Education Panel Hartford Junior Fire Marshal, Trudy McKeon Daly, Hartford Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn. Burger King (to be announced) Use of Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary for Fire Safety Education, Cathy Hynson, R. N., Ashland, Va. Working Together—Public Fire Education 1978, Laura Buchbinder, National Fire Prevention and Control Administration
12:00 noon—Washington and the Fire Service (speakers and program to be announced)
12:30 p.m.—Announcement of election results 2:00 p.m.—Exhibitors demonstrations. Plum Street, behind Convention Center
6:00 p.m.—No Host Reception, Netherlands Hilton Hotel, foyers of the Pavillion Caprice and Hall of Mirrors
7:00 p.m.—105th Annual Conference Banquet, Netherlands Hilton Hotel, Pavillion Caprice; Chief David B. Gratz, master of ceremonies. Entertainment to follow
Thursday, September 14
9:00 a m.—Final business session, newly elected president presiding
Workshop Programs
Medical Advisory Council
Monday
Emergency Medical Services Systems, Marshall B. Conrad, M.D., medical director, St. Louis, Mo., Fire Department
The Department of Transportation and Emergency Medical Service Systems, Leo R. Schwartz, chief, Emergency Medical Service Systems Branch, Enforcement and Emergency Services Division, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.
Communications in Emergency Medical Service Systems, Eugene Nagel, M.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Md.
Emergency Medical Service Systems in a Small Fire Department, Chief Joseph Morgan, Clayton, Mo., Fire Department
National Emergency Medical Technician Apprenticeship Program, Floyd E. Yocum, Jr., national director. Emergency Medical Technician Apprenticeship Program, International Association of Fire Fighters, Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan
Monday
A Look at Public Fire Protection Evaluation, Joseph Redden, director, Public Protection Division, National Fire Protection Association, Boston, Mass.
Update on the National Fire Academy, David McCormack, superintendent, National Fire Academy, Washington, D.C.
Hazardous Materials, Problems and Solutions
Jacksonville’s Efforts to Meet Hazardous Materials Problems, Captain R. Q. Gore, Jacksonville. Fla., Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team
CHEMTREC, John Zercher, Manufacturing Chemists Association, Washington, D.C.
Organizing the IAFC Hazardous Materials, Committee, Chief Warren E. Isman, Montgomery County, Md., chairman, IAFC Ad Hoc Hazardous Materials Committee
Tuesday
Repeat of Monday’s program
Volunteer
Monday
Panel on OSHA and NIOSH work with breathing apparatus and fire fighter gloves, Commissioner James W. Kerr, Falls Church, Va. moderator; Tom Seymour, OSHA, Washington, D.C.; NIOSH representatives to be announced
Blizzard of 77, Buffalo, N.Y., Fire Commissioner Karl K. Kubiak, Buffalo, NY.
Tuesday
Women in the Volunteer Fire Service
Women EMTs and Paramedics, Chief David C. Grupp, Long Grove, III., Fire Department
Women on the Tailboard, Chief Jack Armstrong, Warminster, Pa., Fire Department
—Photo by hotter Studio.
—photo by Paul L. Wertheimer.
What Women Can Do for the Fire Service, Cathy L. Hynson, R. N., Ashland, Va.
Ohio’s Medical and Retirement Plan for Volunteer Fire Fighters, Chief Linie Hausfeld, Minster, Ohio, Fire Department
Workman’s Compensation and the Volunteers, Former Chief Robert W. Little, York, Jr., Pa.
What Can the Volunteers Do for the Good and Betterment of the IAFC?
Urban
Monday
Subject to be announced
Tuesday
Subject to be announced
Life Member
Monday
Subject to be announced
Fire Prevention
Monday
Building Codes—Adoption, Enforcement and Use (speakers to be announced)
Tuesday
Fire Safety Education
Communications
Tuesday
Subject to be announced
Ladies Program
Sunday, September 10
1:00 p.m.—Reception honoring the President’s wife, Mrs. John Swindle, and the wives and guests of the officers and directors of the IAFC, Caprice Suite, Netherlands Hilton Hotel
Monday, September 11
12:00 noon—Luncheon, Pavillion Caprice, Netherlands Hilton Hotel, followed by a special presentation, “Inside the Soaps,” by John Potter, producer of “Search for Tomorrow.” This is a behind the scenes look at the lives of the actors and actresses living the daytime dramas, with film clips of early soap operas.
2:30 p.m.—Entertainment by Bob Braun, Cincinnati television personality, with a show featuring chatter, good company and light entertainment.
Tuesday, September 12
All day free for personal activities, shopping, sightseeing. No host tours of selected area attractions are available. Although some tours require advance registration, information, tickets and times will be available from representatives near the registration area in the Convention Center.
Wednesday, September 13
Free time
Note: The Ladies Hospitality Room will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, at Parlor G, Netherlands Hilton Hotel. Information, demonstrations and light refreshments will be available.
