JAPAN KARATE ASSOCIATION / AMERICAN FEDERATION

ELECTION RESULTS. As most of the instructors know, after the formation of the group written ballots were sent out to all the clubs that form the JKA/AF to elect corporate officers. On August 9, 2008, there was an executive committee meeting in Lafayette, Louisiana, in which those ballots were tabulated. The following results were recorded:

Takayuki Mikami, was elected Chairman; Jerry Kattawar, Jr., was elected Vice Chair (Executive Director); Maria Hrabec, was elected Managing Director; Scott Decuir, was elected Secretary; Kyriakos Papadopoulos, was elected Treasurer; Tony Nakamura, was elected Communications Director, and Bill Staten, was elected Auditing Director.

Furthermore, Steve Robichaux, was elected At Large Director, Fathi Jarushi, was elected At Large Director, Doug Walsh, was elected At Large Director, Danny Guidry, was elected At Large Director, Thomas Fields, was elected At Large Director; and Khalil Sorbi, was elected At Large Director.

Furthermore, Shih-Min Hsu was elected Director from Birmingham Shotokan Karate; Dan Almon was elected Director from Capital City Karate Club; Dennis Keyes was elected Director from the Cleveland Shotokan Karate Club; Joe Muzzi was elected Director from the Greenville YMCA Shotokan Karate Club; Michael England was elected Director from the JKA of North Texas; Joe Giluso was elected Director from the JKA of Ponchatoula; Timothy Dupree was elected Director from the JKA of Thibodaux; Angel Carr was elected Director from Southern Shotokan; Dewey Swink was elected Director from JKA of Hammond; Ricky Pampo was elected Director from Karate Club at LSU; Lane Nevils was elected Director from the Lafayette Karate Club; Ramy Badawi was elected Director from the Louisiana Karate Association; Bruce McGee was elected Director from the Maumelle Karate Club; Mai Nguyen was elected Director from Xavier University Karate Club; Richard T. McKenzie was elected Director from the Minden Karate Club; Dimitri Papadopoulos was elected Director from the Jewish Community Center Karate; Wayne Hammond was elected Director from the Monroe Karate Club; Candis Durand was elected Director from the New Iberia Karate Institute; James K. Ellis was elected Director from Nichols State Karate Club; Glenn Taylor was elected Director from the Shreveport Karate Club; Devin Fadaol was elected Director from Tulane Karate Club; Phylis Logsdon was elected Director from University of South Alabama Karate Club; Tim Ethridge was elected Director from Vicksburg Shotokan Karate; Ben Anderson was elected Director from W. Tennessee Karate Association; Rose Shuff was elected Director from University of Louisiana Lafayette Karate Club; Stephen Powers was elected Director from Auburn University Karate Club; Cleo Sorbi was elected Director from the ISKA; Arun Rao was elected Director from University of Illinois at Chicago Karate Club.

All clubs not reporting their elected directors were given time to file their results or verbally contact the managing director with their nominations and those clubs were to still be allowed a representative at all meeting conducted by the Board. Any club who applies for and is granted membership into the JKAAF shall automatically be allowed one representative Director on the board, which should be disclosed on the club’s application form. Congratulations to everyone who was elected.