2020
July 15, 2020 is a date I will remember with satisfaction, honor and joy for many years to come. On that day, our Immediate Past President Mike Savas passed the gavel, and I became the 106th President of the Texas Land Title Association.
As my time to serve as president of this organization approached, I looked back at the list of past presidents and imagined how it was for them when they took office. J.C. Crisp was TLTA’s first president, serving from 1908-1910 – a time when the automobile was hi-tech and movies were accompanied by piano music played from the front of the theater.
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As we’ve settled into our new routines, it’s increasingly apparent that we’re in this for the long haul. While our economy shows faint signs of its former vigor, until there’s a vaccine, the things we took for granted in our professional lives—travel, in-person meetings, get-togethers with clients and associates— will remain the exceptions to the rule. “Virtual reality” has set in.
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In 1942, following the Allied powers’ first decisive victory in over a year, Winston Churchill made a statement that I’ve heard repeated (in varying forms) over the last couple of weeks: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
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I certainly would have been very surprised if you told me that only nine months after you honored me with TLTA’s presidency at the annual conference, I would be on my second week working from home, doing my part along with millions of other Americans to navigate the challenges of our battle with the COVID-19 virus.
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I was at TLTA recently, and as I walked from workstation to workstation visiting with TLTA staff hard at work, I was impressed by two things:
- The energetic pace at which our TLTA team are working to advance some of the title industry’s highest priority projects, and
- The eagerness with which the professionals at TLTA responded to the new initiatives I was there to discuss.
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