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June 7, 2011
ALM Promotes Fairbanks to Executive Director of Academic Affairs

[Editor's Note: This article was updated June 8 to correct the type of accounting system utilized by the association.]

LAS VEGAS — Linda Fairbanks, the director of academic affairs for the Association for Linen Management (ALM) for several years, has been promoted to executive director of academic affairs, ALM Board President Randy Wendland announced at the Clean Show.

Executive Director Jim Thacker resigned unexpectedly in February, and the ALM board decided to consolidate the position with another and promote Fairbanks rather than hire a replacement.

Fairbanks has overseen ALM’s educational offerings, including the American Laundry & Linen College (ALLC), and now finds herself heading an association that faces mounting financial problems and dwindling membership numbers.

During Sunday’s annual business meeting, it was revealed that ALM has approximately $100,000 in unpaid bills. Chief Financial Officer Paul Jewison says the association is shifting from a cash accounting system to an accrual based system to better track spending.

February 10, 2011
ALM Executive Director Thacker Resigns

RICHMOND, Ky. — The Association for Linen Management (ALM) announced via press release late Wednesday afternoon that Executive Director Jim Thacker had resigned.

“We thank Jim for his service and his recent chairmanship of the Clean committee,” ALM President Randy Wendland, CLLM, said in the press release. “Mr. Thacker served ALM over 10 years, and ALM wishes him the best in his new endeavors. Jim is currently exploring other professional opportunities.”

June 14, 2010
Landers-Mills is ALM’s Manager of Year, Wendland Elected President

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — While attendance at this weekend’s Association for Linen Management (ALM) Annual Conference was down from previous years, Executive Director Jim Thacker called the 70th annual event that ended Sunday “the smoothest conference we’ve ever run” and reported “nothing but positive” comments from attendees about the conference’s location and educational content.
 

July 23, 2008
Compact Laundries Squeeze in Productivity

ITHACA, N.Y. — The on-premise laundry at Kendal at Ithaca, a continuing care retirement community in the central Finger Lakes region of New York, is not unlike many on-premise laundries (OPL) operating today.

Using three washer-extractors (two 90-pound models and one 55-pounder), a commercial top loader and three dryers (120 pounds each), Vicki Elliott’s staff of two FTEs and one part-timer run an 8-hour shift six days a week in processing 275,000 pounds of linen annually for Kendal’s 350 residents.

March 24, 2008
ALM Announces Candidates for National Offices

RICHMOND, Ky. – The Association for Linen Management (ALM) has approved a slate of officer candidates for election during its national conference this summer and Bart Carpenter, a laundry production coordinator from Oregon, is running unopposed for the association’s presidency.

Carpenter, who is currently ALM’s senior vice president, works at Oregon Correctional Enterprises, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, in Madras, Ore.