| Editor’s Welcome |
The mission of IHRSA is to grow, protect,
and promote the industry, and to provide its
members with benefits that will help them
Let me present you with a question that actor be more successful.
Dennis Haysbert poses in a new television ad for
Publishing
Editor-In-Chief: Craig R. Waters
Allstate Insurance. “Will you remember this as
Publisher: Jay M. Ablondi
Managing Editor: Rebecca K. Maverick
the Great Recession,” Haysbert intones in his
Editor: Jennifer H. McInerney
Associate Editor: Patricia Glynn
deep baritone, “or as the recession that made
Editorial Assistant: Mia Coen
you great?”
Contributing Editors:
Dawn Allcot, Patricia Amend, Jon Feld,
Julie M. King, Lesley Mahoney, Jean Suffin,
Stephen Wallenfels, Kristen A. Walsh
Before you answer, stop for a moment, take a little look around,
Advertising, www.cbimediakit.com
and give the notion some thought.
Vice President of Advertising & Membership Sales:
Michele Eynon
If you’re one of the lucky ones—an attendee, this month, at
Senior Account Manager:
IHRSA’s 29th Annual International Convention and Trade Show— Jessica Gutstein
take a look at the people around you, savor their excitement, sense
Advertising & Associate Membership Manager:
their energy. If you’re one of the less lucky ones, flip through the
Christine Paterson
Advertising Sales Executive:
pages of this issue of CBI.
Donna Garrity
At the convention, you’ll find ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, Business Development Publications:
Olympic gold medalist Silken Laumann, and former Los Angeles
Will Finn
Police Department (LAPD) officer Kristina Ripatti among the
Publications & Associate Coordinator:
Meghan Burnham
featured speakers. You’ll also find them represented here.
Art Direction, Design, Production:
Berman has spent more than three decades cov-
HM Studios, Boston, MA
Kerry
ering the winners and losers in football, baseball,
internAtiOnAl heAlth, rACQuet
b
rett tennis, and hockey, most recently for the 44th Super & sPOrtsClub AssOCiAtiOn
Bowl, and has learned a fair amount about what it
President & CEO: Joe Moore
takes to succeed in any undertaking. Laumann won
Chief Operating Officer: Anita Lawlor
her first Olympic medal for rowing in the ’84 Games,
Executive Vice President of Public Policy:
Helen Durkin
and, despite a tragic accident in 1992 that necessi-
Executive Vice President of Global Products:
tated five surgeries, continued to compete, and win,
Jay Ablondi
through the ’96 Games. Club business internAtiOnAl
Ripatti, a 10-year veteran of the LAPD, has
editOriAl & Advertising OffiCes:
c/o ihrsA
managed an even more dramatic resurrection.
seaport Center
Paralyzed from the chest down when she was shot,
70 fargo street, boston, MA 02210 usA
in 2006, while attempting to arrest a suspect, she’s
800-228-4772 usA & Canada
617-951-0055 | 617-951-0056 fAX
achieved the seemingly impossible—rebuilding her
e-mail: cbi@ihrsa.org
body to surf, compete in marathons and triathlons, participate in a www.ihrsa.org
Race Across America fundraiser, become a mother for a second time,
to order reprints of articles,
and prepare to attend law school.
call 800-228-4772 ext. 192 or
Then, both here, in CBI, and there, in San Diego, you’ll find the
visit www.ihrsa.org/cbi
winning results of the first annual IHRSA-CBI Club Photo Competi-
tion. A total of 57 companies, representing 72 individual facilities
in eight countries, competed.
Take a look at the vital and vivacious women pictured on page 48,
®
participants in a Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club boot camp;
or the breathtakingly beautiful Ethiopian child on page 54, one of
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usPs 766-570) is published monthly ©2010
the beneficiaries of the Fifth Avenue Club’s largesse; or the yoga
by the international health, racquet & sportsclub
students suspended mid-air on page 56 at Crunch; or the expanse
Association, seaport Center 70 fargo street,
of brightly colored exercise equipment on page 59, a hallmark of
boston, MA 02210. All rights reserved. Periodicals
postage paid at boston, Massachusetts, and
Retro Fitness. additional mailing offices. Canadian sales
These photos—and the people, places, and activities they
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subscription rate for members is $48 per year,
depict—do more than describe a single club. They convey a clear
which is included in the dues. Additional subscrip-
sense of the health, vitality, and promise of our industry, as it exists
tions $24.95 per year (usA) and $75 (international).
today, more accurately and completely than any statistics can.
POstMAster: Please send change of address
to Club business international, c/o ihrsA,
“Will you remember this as the Great Recession, or as the
seaport Center 70 fargo street, boston,
recession that made you great?”
Massachusetts 02210
So what do you think? —|
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