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Washington Athletic Club - Dedicated 1930 - Mission To enrich the quality of life of our members Vision To be the premier city athletic club in America Values Leadership, Excellence, Integrity, Service, and Sensitivity Peter Christian, Vice President Food & Beverage pchristian@wac.net Wendall Smith, Vice President Human Resources wsmith@wac.net Postmaster Send address changes to: Editor, WAC Magazine, P.O. Box 1709 Seattle, WA 98111-1709 WAC and Washington Athletic Club are registered trademarks of the Washington Athletic Club. cnelson@wac.net @cnhuskies13 Chuck Nelson President & CEO Executive Staff Chuck Nelson, President & Chief Executive Officer cnelson@wac.net Paul Lowber, Chief Financial Officer plowber@wac.net Wayne Milner, Senior Vice President Athletics, Special Projects & Community Partners wmilner@wac.net Michelle Pinson, Vice President Membership & Marketing mpinson@wac.net MAY / JUNE 2019 7 Celebrating innovation It is human nature to want to get better, to look for ways to move forward. To set a goal or satisfy an ambition to have a positive direction, to build a purposeful inertia and improve. We do it in our personal lives, and we look for it in our professional lives and companies and businesses and, yes, private clubs. It is one of the WAC's guiding forces—constantly looking for ways to get better. To improve requires change. We can implement best practices from others. We can learn so much from the world and apply it to our own interests, read what the experts have to say, be listeners and observers, and assimilate lessons learned. Or we can make up our own stuff! We can create, invent, pioneer, and tinker. We can fail and succeed and ultimately figure out what works and what doesn't. In the process, we improve on what is but also develop and introduce something new, distinct and exciting. Isn't that the fun part? And aren't we impressed with people who can and do innovate? Sometimes innovation changes the world. Sometimes it's just fun. Either way, we all benefit from it and are thrilled it is happening. We love to highlight our wonderful members and the contributions they make to our community. So allow this issue of WAC Magazine to celebrate innovation and our own innovators! Publisher: Michelle Pinson Content Director: Darrick Meneken Art Director: Lara Gwaltney Associate Editor: Mae Folsom Jacobson Designers: Tiffany Smith & Ashley McGowan Marketing & Creative Services Manager: Erin Danner For advertising information: Kirk Tourtillotte Advertising & Marketing Sales Varsity Communications, Inc. p 888.367.6420, ext. 114 • f 888.273.1763 kirk@varsitycommunications.com WAC® MAGAZINE MAY / JUNE 2019 Volume 38, Number 3 ISSN 1091-7985 Washington Athletic Club ® 1325 Sixth Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 206.622.7900 / fax 206.464.3058 www.wac.net / magazine@wac.net 206.464.4631 / fax 206.464.1392 Subscription: $18 / Single copies: $3 Published bimonthly, plus holiday issue. Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, WA.