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www.stnonline.com 2012 2012 STN EXPO, EXPO, EXPO! As you can imagine, we at STN are preparing for the 19th annual event in Reno, Nev.
Aside from the informative workshops and trade show, attendees will find out who will receive the 2012 Peter J. Grandolfo Memorial Award of Excellence. Nominations for the sixth-annual award include a 200-word essay on why the nominee should be considered for the awards sponsored by Sure-Lok. Te deadline for submissions is June 22. Be sure to visit
www.stnonline.com/attendees/peter-grandolfo-award-submission for details. Grandolfo was transportation director at Chicago Public Schools and an NAPT board member. He also
frequently spoke at state and national conferences, including the STN EXPO. He passed away unexpectedly in January 2006. Peter’s widow, Linda Grandolfo, a special education teacher in Chicago, said about her husband: “He was the consummate educator, always kind and patient and willing to not only teach, but to always learn. He had an amazing sense of family and friendship.” In other STN EXPO news, our Play2Win trivia game is in full swing. Te game consists of multiple-choice
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questions — a new question every weekday — about the school bus industry. Te more correct answers, the more chances for players to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the STN EXPO. Last year, Linda Slemp participated in Play2Win and won. Te executive secretary of the Illinois School Transportation Association was able to attend the EXPO for the first time. “What a great time I had [at the EXPO]. I learned so much. When I arrived back to work after the EXPO, I think my friends got a little tired of me raving about the fun educational week I had,” said
Slemp, who is also a state certified instructor. A 35-year industry veteran, Slemp didn’t struggle with answering the trivia questions. “I knew the answers to most of the questions
right off the top of my head,” she said, adding that she is playing the game again this year. Are you? Te game ends June 29. To enter, visit
www.stnexpo.com.
Obit Highlights Trailblazer Joe Mirabella’s Industry
Accomplishments If you didn’t know who Joe Mirabella was, he was
a Vietnam veteran and a school bus industry veter-
an who was a trailblazing thought leader. In late February, Mirabella, long-time director of transportation for Cherry Creek Schools near Denver, passed away after suffering a heart attack. He was 67. Be sure to visit
www.stnonline.com/home/latest-news/4162-former-colo- rado-student-transporter-napt-board-member-mirabella-passes to read more about Mirabella’s contributions to the industry as well as comments by colleagues who worked with him on different ventures.
STN Blogs Are Booming We continue to update our Blog section
with submissions by industry professionals as well as by the STN staff. With so many issues impacting the pupil transportation indus- try, it’s no wonder there is a lot to say about budget cuts, state and federal
laws, how
departments can improve their working rela- tionships and so much more. We continue to receive entries by the likes of John Fahey, Tim Ammon, Christe Smith and Darrel Christie. Don’t know who they are? Visit
www.stnon-
line.com/blogs to find out.
STN Vlogs: The Next Multimedia Frontier No, this isn’t a typo. A vlog is a video version of a blog, and we are working hard to bring
this interactive medium to
stnonline.com. Vlogs will consist of exclusive interviews, our weekly news roundups and anything else that is interesting, relevant and timely to cap- ture on video. Recently, we posted our first vlogs featuring Editor-in-Chief Ryan Gray, who reports on industry current events that will surely pique the interest of viewers like you. Stay tuned!
14 School Transportation News Magazine May 2012
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