BLE Focus

From left: R.C. Scully, BLE Division 390 (Windsor, Ontario); and Jack Murphy, BLE Division 421 (Buffalo, N.Y.).

A view from the back of the convention hall shows the large television monitors delegates viewed when considering changes to the Constitution & Bylaws. The monitors also showed instantaneous outcome of delegate votes.

Brother B.J. Suir of BLE Division 531 (New Orleans) sits in a camping chair due to medical reasons. He suffers from back pain caused by a two-train collision he was involved in during 1999.

Delegates and their spouses during the banquet the evening of September 27.

Locomotive Engineer Ben Lee, a delegate representing BLE Division 166 (Charlotte, N.C.).

Representatives of the Grand International Auxiliary (GIA) in the observers section of the Grand Ball Room during proceedings of the BLE Convention. From left: Mabel Grotzinger; Carrie Cornman; Bobbie Clark; and Glenda Sikorski.

A large banner in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel welcomes BLE delegates to the convention.

International Division Executive Staff member C.E. Anderson holds up a sample ballot as he explains voting procedures to delegates.

From left: Jim Chapelle, New Jersey State Legislative Board Chairman (Division 53, Jersey City, N.J.); Richard Darcy, Local Chairman of BLE Division 373 (Trenton, N.J.); and Bob Vallochi, General Chairman of New Jersey Transit (Division 53).

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