Edict #97
“So, why don’t you just send her right on through. Before you know it, you’ll have old camel ass back in your grubby old mits.”
This last promotion is very close to my heart. Our unlucky recipient has a lot to answer for. She was the person who gave me my first ever shot at government, in a time when it was very difficult to get involved in the running of the club as a new member. Together we recreated the Mentors Programme and reinvented the Yearbook. We created the first comprehensive ship awards system and worked together very closely for a long long time, collaborating on a massive number of projects. When I first joined the club, she’d been a member for a year and a bit and we hit it off straight away in IRC. She appointed me to both Yearbook Coordinator and Mentors Coordinator positions after her appointment as Personnel Director and, in 2005 promoted me to my current member rank of Fleet Captain. Other than Brian, she is the person with whom I’ve worked most during my five years with the club. The first time I burned out, my COS character aboard the Genesis was the only roleplay character I kept and a post she made during our time together on Starbase 202 remains the finest example of creative writing i’ve ever seen in STF.
In the near seven years since she first joined the club, she has been President, twice Vice President, Personnel Director, Assistant Personnel Director, Academy Course Proctor, twice Genesis Commanding Officer, Challenger Commanding Officer and Engineering Director. She created the first comprehensive Personnel Department Edict and was instrumental in creating the member tracking, statistical analysis and management systems that were the basis for what the Personnel Department staff still use today more than four years later. She has demonstrated time and time again her commitment to the club through government and administrative work, always leaving a position better than when she arrived. When Outpost 45’s centre seat became vacant, she stepped into the breach and before I could even find a new CO, had already begun turning it around, packing the roster with new crew members and revitalising the existing crews posting level. When Wail Qasim was forced to leave us, she stepped into the breach as Engineering Director despite having little knowledge of the nitpicking technical points that are the staple of any TrekTech Geek (TM). Through her expert leadership skills, she has brought the department storming back to life and we have seen more specs reviewed and passed in the last eight months than we have in the past four years. She is also soon to back into the big chair in my soon to be vacant Wolfely shoes.
She is a good friend and a strong leader. The people in this club that I have cared as much for in my time here could be counted on a single hand and it is an honour to hereby promote Jen “Sloth” Herr to the rank of Commodore, with all the rights and privileges therein. She may only have an hour to enjoy it right now before stealing my big chair, pointy hat and shiny pips, but she is more than deserving.
Congratulations Jen, and well done.
Fleet Admiral Andrew “Wolfe” Robinson
STF President
6th December 2009