Bob Johns receives Distinguished Service Award

Congratulations to 25-year conference center veteran Bob Johns, who has been awarded the International Association of Conference Centers prestigious Mel Hosansky Award for Distinguished Service. The annual award, given to someone who has given the most to IACC and the conference center industry, is named for the late editor of Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings (and who also was Medical Meetings' editor Tamar Hosansky's father). Johns retired in December 2005 after 17 years at the Babson Executive Education Center, and has been very active in the association, including serving as the first Chair of IACC's Technology Committee, as a member of the Annual Conference Planning Committee, a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of IACC-North America, and as president of IACC-Global.