Dear ARA Member:

I’m pleased to announce that GML Enterprises has joined the list of ARA Suppliers generously hosting Regional Education Events during 2008. GML’s event will take place September 13 at its facility in Atlanta.

 

If you have not yet done so, I enthusiastically urge every member attend an ARA Regional Education Event during 2008. The 1- and 2-day events, held around the country are fantastic opportunities to partake in informative seminars, improve your awards knowledge, network with fellow ARA embers, enjoy great hospitality, and receive a facilities tour of the sponsoring company.

 

Even better, if you are enrolled in the ARA Certification Program you will earn CEU credits. All seminars will conform to ARA’s standards for quality and adhere to its policy of non-product promotion and compliance with anti-trust regulations.

 

Please see the New and Notes and ARA Calendar sections below for upcoming ARA Education Events—and also upcoming Branch events in Florida and Louisiana . Make plans to attend one convenient to your area.

Sincerely,

Cathy Garcia
President
Awards and Recognition Association

Upcoming ARA Regional Education Events

Host: Rowmark LLC, June 19–20
(Location: Rowmark Kremer Learning Center, 2040 Industrial Drive, Findlay, OH)

Thursday, June 19
   “Working with CorelDRAW Efficiently” byPradhan Balter, Retlab Graphics 

Friday, June 20
   “Sign-Making and ADA Compliance” by Reuven Rahamin, Accent Signage Systems

Click here for details about the Rowmark Education Event and to register.

Host: GML Enterprises, September 13
Host: Continental Trophies, October 4
Host: Identification Plates, October 11 [more info]
Host: Laserbits, October 24

Click here to see the entire schedule of ARA Regional Education Events in 2008.

ARA Certification Program

Current transcripts were recently mailed to enrollees in the ARA Certification Program. These transcripts are your record of CEU credit that you have received from seminars, outside sources, educational CDs/videos, and papers you may have written or seminars you presented. This is your opportunity to check your CEU total to determine how far along the path you are toward attaining your CRS or CRM.

 

Please review your transcript carefully. If you find any errors or omissions, please photocopy or scan the transcript and mail, e-mail, or fax it to the attention of the Manager of Exhibits. Circle the seminars in question or make notes on the transcript. It is important to also send copies—please keep the originals—of the yellow receipts of the Seminar Evaluation and CEU Reporting Forms to verify your attendance at any unrecorded seminars. Options: Mail to ARA Manager of Exhibits, 4700 W. Lake Avenue, Glenview, IL 60025-1485, or fax Attn: Manager of Exhibits at 888/374-7257 (Use 847/ 375-6480 if faxing from outside the USA), or e-mail dweinstock@connect2amc.com.

 

Two ARA Seminars at the Texas Trophy and Awards Show
ARA Past President Fran Carville, CRM, of Carco Awards will present “Marketing on a Shoestring” at the Texas Trophy and Awards Show. The show takes place July 30–August 2 at the Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston, TX. Carville’s seminar takes place Friday, August 1, from 8 to 9:30 am. ARA Speaker of the Year Robert Hensley, Engravers Network, will also present “Applying CorelDRAW Techniques to Create Identification Products” on Saturday, August 2, from 8 to 9:30 am. Click here for details about these seminars and to register.

Please note that a separate registration is required to attend the Texas Trophy and Awards Show. To register, click here.

ARA Announces New Member Savings Program

ARA is proud to announce a free new member benefit that can save your business thousands of dollars a year. ARASavings.com is an ARA initiative that creates new savings opportunities for you with national pricing on products and services you purchase in your daily operations. ARA Savings and its suppliers will assist you in making cost comparisons, which will enable you to avoid wasting valuable time talking with suppliers and representatives. ARA Savings researches pricing and services on your behalf, along with ongoing monitoring to ensure you the best value for your money. Call ARA Savings’ Mark Schiavone at 941/330-8050 to discuss the ways to cut your expenses. For more information and to register, please click here.

Key: * - Indicate an ARA show

June 19–20 * ARA Education Event Rowmark LLC Findlay, OH [more info]	June 19–21 Awards & Custom Gift Show Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, MD www.nbmshows.com/
July 10–12 * ARA Florida Branch Event Clarion Airport Hotel Jacksonville, FL floyd@bjtrophy.com (352/732-2249) or irasco@bellsouth.net (904/725-4440)	July 17–19 Awards & Custom Gift Show Long Beach Convention Center Long Beach, CA www.nbmshows.com/
July 30–August 2 Texas Trophy and Awards Show Moody Gardens Hotel Galveston, TX 682/429-5248 Cribbon1@sbcglobal.net Note: ARA seminars will be on August 1–2	August 23* ARA Education Event Western Trophy & Sign Supply Portland, OR [more info]
September 13 * ARA Education Event GML Enterprises Atlanta, GA [more info]	September 13–14 * ARA Louisiana Branch Event Shreveport/Bossier City, LA acadtrop@bellsouth.net (337/235-7408)

October 4 * ARA Education Event Continental Awards & Trophies Newark, DE [more info]	October 11 * ARA Education Event Identification Plates, Inc. Mesquite, TX [more info]
October 11–13 Euro Trophex MECC Exhibition Centre Maastricht, The Netherlands +44 (0) 1442 230431 E-mail: colingallimore@aol.com	October 24 * ARA Education Event LaserBits, Inc. Phoenix, AZ [more info]
November 15 * ARA Canadian Conference Sheraton Four Points Mississauga, On. Canada [more info]	February 23–27, 2009 * 2009 ARA International Awards Market Las Vegas Convention Center 800/344-2148 [more info]

The June 2008 issue features color awards, products, components, and gifts from ARA companies. This issue also features profiles of the 2008 ARIEF Scholarship winners. ARA distributes its official magazine electronically in addition to its standard printed-and-mailed issues. If you didn’t get a copy via e-mail, please let us know by sending a message with your store name and address to info@ara.org.

 

If you’re an ARA member, log in to the “Members Only” section using your member number, and select ARA “Ask an Expert.” Find the topic and expert you’re looking for and submit your question(s). More often than not, an ARA expert will have the solution you need.

 

? I own an engraving business and love reading Dr. Type’s articles in Recognition Review. He recently mentioned and showed an example of a design from a CD from Dover Publishing on calligraphic ornaments. I looked it up on Amazon and found other books with fonts such as Victorian, Gothic, Script, Art Nouveau, etc. Does Dr. Type recommend any of them? Are they fonts I could use in Corel Draw and be taken from the CD included with the book?

 

Bob “Dr. Type” Trogman responds: Thank you for reading my articles. Amazon.com is a good source for Dover electronic fonts. Not only do you get about 24 fonts per disc, you also get a book that has a complete showing of the contents of the disc. I know the man who has digitized the font discs and have all of his work that was done for Dover. The price is right and the fonts are good quality. All of the fonts are truetype and will work well with Corel or any other application.