b'2020-21 Officers, Directorscontinued 2021 Presidents Day Issue MONTANA Chris Kemper CEOs MessageMPMCSA PresidentTerrible Herbst Oil Dirk CooperLas VegasHi-Noon PetroleumNV Associate Board DirectorMissoula Joe McGinley MPMCSA Vice-PresidentMcGinley & AssociatesPRESIDENTS Past & PresentScott CurryRenoBen Taylor Inc NEW MEXICOValierMPMCSA EMA Director & NMPMA President Immediate Past PresidentTom Hennessy Brewer Oil Co Kary TonjumAlbuquerque WPMA Chief T and there is noCityServiceValcon KalispellNMPMA Vice-President MPMCSA Judge Dobrient Executive Director Delek US, Dallas, TXBrad LongcakeNMPMA EMA Director This year has been a challengingMPMCSAAlex Hodges-Swinfordone for all of us, Helena Hodges Oil Co Inc Belen Executive Officerexception for WPMA. The WPMAMONTANA STATE DIRECTORSSteve Haase Immediate (CEO) Executive Committee members werePast NMPMA President CHS Inc/Zip TripBrian AshburnGene Inglesby all saddened to have to cancel the 2021 Spokane Valley, WA Allsup Petroleum Inc, Clovis WPMAEXPO in Las Vegas, an event that Jim KenneallyNMPMA Executive DirectorTown Pump Inchas been held annually since 1953. During Ruben Baca Butte NMPMA, Albuquerque my years at WPMA, it has always been Chris RindalNEW MEXICO held during the week of Presidents Day. Rindal Oil CompanySTATE DIRECTORSLewistown Today, we recognize Presidents Day as aJason RorabaughDoug Adams Rocky Mountain SupplySandia Oil Cocelebration honoring the forty-six Presidents of Belgrade Albuquerque the United States of America. Yet, this Federal Roger SchmechelJim Alleeholiday was originally created to celebrate CityServiceValconFarmington Oil Cothe birthday of George Washington, the first Billings Farmington President of the United States, who was born on Dave WilliamsAlan Franken Agland CooperativeFranken Oil & Distributing CoFebruary 22, 1732. For me, WPMA has been my Wolfpoint Las Vegas Presidents Day for a long time.Gary Harrell MT Associate State Director Bell Gas IncThis Presidents Day will be my twenty-sixthKirk BrumfieldRoswellanniversary with WPMA. As I look back on the Marketing Specialties IncBenny Hodgeslast quarter of a century, I realize I have celebrat-Billings Hodges Oil Co Inced Presidents Day each year in Las Vegas at theNEVADA Belen WPMAEXPO. This year I will not be celebrat-Danny Kendrick NPM&CSA PresidentKendrick Oiling in Las Vegas; I will be celebrating with my Christi Carano CaseFriona, TX family in Salt Lake City, Utah. This will be a Rebel Oil IncNM Associate State Directors definite change from past years.Las VegasNPM&CSA Vice-President Rodney Reynolds Core-Mark InternationalFortunately, WPMA has had many talented Craig AllisonAlbuquerque individuals serving in leadership roles, who have Hunt & Sons Inc Reno Reggie Robersonhelped WPMA grow to become the successfulNPM&CSA EMA DirectorEaton Sales & Serviceassociation it is today. The WPMA presidents Jason CaseAlbuquerque have been very diligent in planning for the Rebel Oil Inc OREGONLas VegasImmediate OFA PresidentPast NPM&CSA PresidentGabriel Zirkle Jeremy BautistaWSCO Petroleum Corp River City PetroleumPortlandLas Vegas OFA Vice-PresidentNPM&CSA Jeff Rouse US President #4 James MadisonUS President #5 James MonroeExecutive Director Carson, Portland A popular Government, withoutWe must support our rights or lose our character, Peter KruegerEMA Director &NPM&CSA, Reno Immediate Past popular information, or the means(57) and with it, perhaps, our liberties . A people who OFA Presidentof acquiring it, is but a Prologue to aPT: fail to do it can scarcely be said to hold a place NEVADA STATE DIRECTORS Matt TruaxFarce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both . 1809-1817 among independent nations .Kyle CallTruax Corporation, Corvallis National honor is national property of the highest Maverik Inc, Nevada OFA LobbyistsKnowledge will forever govern ignorance: And avalue . The sentiment in the mind of every citizen is(58)David CampbellMike Freesepeople who mean to be their own Governors, must armnational strength . It ought therefore to be cherished . PT:Pilot Thomas LogisticsDanelle Romainthemselves with the power which knowledge gives ." 1817-1825Carlin The Romain Group, Portland Source: The People the Sovereigns, James Monroe, 1867.10Source: Letter from James Madison to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822.www.wpma.com /Spring 2021'