Connecticut Chapter member G. Marshall Sanford succeeded Gary Rorabacher as SPAAMFAA President. The Society’s national membership now totaled more than 2,400.

The Genesee Valley Chapter hosted the Society’s 30th Annual Convention & Muster in Rochester, N.Y from August 10-13. The four-day program included tours of the Eastman Kodak Museum and Kodak Park manufacturing complex, including its private industrial fire department. One of the educational seminars which had become an important part of SPAAMFAA conventions featured former American-LaFrance designer John Grybos, who styled ALF’s 400 and 500-Series fire apparatus, and the pioneering JO/JOX cab-forward aerials.

The 1988-1 issue of Enjine!-Enjine! featured a special four-panel color insert — a panoramic view of a row of Ahrens-Foxes at a Great Lakes Chapter muster taken by Ken Soderbeck. A shelving unit for the SPAAMFAA Archives at the AACA Library and Research Center in Hershey, Pa. was purchased with funds from the Helene Soderbeck Memorial Fund.