Mr. Pavlik's recollection of the incident is, to put it mildly, incorrect and incomplete.

The badge was removed not because of any of Mr. Pavlik's comments at the Business meeting, it was removed because he chose to not fulfill his responsibilities or obligations as a volunteer. Mr. Pavlik signed up to work at the Promotions table the hours before and during the scheduled business meeting. He had notice (as all Club members did since the meeting notice was published at the end of May) of the time of the meeting and chose not to ask for his shift to be changed or covered. He then worked about 45 minutes and asked if anyone minded if he didn't complete his shift and went to the meeting. The Promotions director told him to go ahead.

After the meeting, I mentioned to two other BOD members that since Mr. Pavlik failed to fulfill his obligations to the Club and other members, his badge should be pulled. They agreed. I pulled his badge.

The next day, Travis Lewin suggested, after Mr. Palvik complained to him, that I should apologize to Mr. Pavlik for pulling the badge off in public. I, along with Wayne Thompson, went into the hallway with Mr. Pavlik, I apologized, explained that as the Convention volunteer coordinator for several years, I was passionate about fulfiling those responsibilities. I told him that he was welcome to attent the volunteer reception that night. He stated that he was leaving in 20 minutes and wouldn't be at the reception and that he accepted my apology.

Mike Skelton wasn't in the hallway nor did anyone force me to apologize.

Looking back on it, I realize now that my mistake wasn't in pulling the badge, it was in not having either the Volunteer Chair or the Convention Chairman do it. Just for general information, Mr. Pavlik was the only one of almost 100 volunteers who failed to fulfill his obligations to the membership and Club at last year's convention.

THAT is the full story of that incident.

In 2005 Mr. Pavlik approached me and started making comments about other members of the BOD that were juvenile and insulting. He would have never said to Mike, Wayne or Q what he said to me. He said that he wanted to know how to get the top job and not have to do any work and that the BOD was a joke. After bragging to me that he'd skirted the rules about entering the show floor by asking one of the hotel housekeeping staff if it was ok for him to be there and the woman, not knowing him from Adam said yes, I told him that I'd had enough; Ralph Myers was standing there and I asked Ralph to talk to Mr. Pavlik because I was done and I walked away. For that Mr. Pavlik spent weeks posting messages saying that I'd been rude to him.

In 2006, after lambasting me for weeks for being rude to him the year before, Mr. Pavlik approached me in the hallway and asked me to accompany him to Thailand, saying I'd be treated like royalty. I found his proposal not only disgusting but insulting.

I will have nothing more to do with Mr. Pavlik or his cronies.

Belinda Hixon