For the third time, the Winter Convention/Annual Meeting was held in Florida – in Kissimmee – February 11-13. The busy program included a visit to the E-One fire apparatus plant in Ocala and a big Saturday muster. “The National” returned to its ancestral home in Syracuse in August. The Great Lakes Chapterhoisted the first full-fledged SPAAMFAA muster ever held outside the United States in Windsor, Ontario Canada, just across the river from Detroit.

The Board of Trustees made the decision to hold the Summer Convention and Muster in Syracuse everythird year from now on, instead of every other year. Also beginning this year, the Silver Trumpet was now mailed to all SPAAMFAA members giving them two quarterly publications as well as a semi-annualMembership Roster and a Resources Guide. Just one new chapter – Blue Ridge – was added this year.