Please make plans to attend the PVF Roundtable General Assembly Meeting on May 20, 2008 at The HESS Club in Houston, TX.  The HESS Club is located at 5430 Westheimer, on the north side of the street between the Galleria and Chimney Rock.

We'll begin with the social hour that starts at 4:30 PM, featuring an open bar courtesy of Sidney Westbrook and Westbrook Manufacturing.  The social hour provides a networking opportunity to meet friends and customers and visit with PVF industry vendors that is unmatched by any other event in our industry. We have received comments from people that have attended the past three or four meetings that have stressed the importance of networking opportunities during the social hour and dinner. They say these opportunities afford them the chance to see important industry contacts that might not be available to them during the normal workday.

We will follow the social hour with a buffet dinner which has become a favorite of our members and guests.  The dinner provides members and guests the opportunity to continue networking.  The relaxed atmosphere of the social hour and dinner cannot be matched at any other industry event.

We will have two keynote speakers this evening, first of which is Mr. Al Schommer, President of Quadrant Valve & Actuator LLC, Broussard, LA; www.gcppvalves.com His topic will be the API standards, their current state, how the standards system works, and the future of API standards in their relationship with world standards.

This is also the meeting where Morris Beschloss and The Wholesaler Magazine will be adding three new members to the PVF Hall Of Fame. These three new members are; PVF Distributors Consumers Pipe and National Oilwell Varco, along with PVF Manufacturer Legend Valve. Mr. Don Caffee will also be joining the 2008 PVF Hall of Fame selectees as an Honorary Member. This honor will be presented to Marilyn Caffee, Don’s widow, by Mr Beschloss. The PVF Hall of Fame induction has become an annual event for the PVF Roundtable and The Wholesaler Magazine and you don’t want to miss it.

We urge you to invite guests to the meeting. We are always trying to increase our membership and guests are generally potential members. Bring your customers or invite your competitors as well as other people from within your company. Don’t miss this outstanding opportunity to network with your industry associates and customers.

Please remember that, because the General Assembly meetings have become so popular, a prompt RSVP is to your advantage.

Please RSVP to the PVF Roundtable website at www.pvf.org. To confirm, just click on Meeting Confirmation and fill out that short form.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Danny Westbrook
PVF Roundtable Secretary/Treasurer