NBTA Elections Heating Up

Running unopposed, Mark Johnson, travel manager at Cessna Aircraft Co., Wichita, appears destined to become the next president of the National Business Travel Association--but a hot race is shaping up for other executive positions. Lea McLeod of Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, Ore., is vying with Cynthia Perper, Colgate-Palmolive Co., New York, for the VP position, and eight travel managers are running for three open spots on the board. They include R.M. Carlson, Union Oil Co., Bree, Calif.; Dorothy Froix, Sundstrand Service Corp., Los Angeles; Nancy Grabow, CMP Media Inc., Manhasset, N.Y.; Robert Lichtman, Bay Networks Inc., Santa Clara; Mary Mahar, Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Mass.; Tom McCabe, EG&G Inc., Wellesley, Mass.; Teresa McVickers, University of California-Berkeley; and Hal Taff, ADAC Labs, Milpitas, Calif. Members will vote for two directors, but the the third-highest vote-getter will fill the unexpired term of the person elected to the vice presidency.

NBTA's 1,200 direct members can vote by absentee ballot through July 7 or in person at the July 13-16 meeting in St. Louis.