ATI’s Conference Registration table at the Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Louis Downtown before the Friday morning registration rush.

Some of the items for the annual ATI raffle displayed, which included another beautiful quilt by Board member Frances Rankos and an autographed Stan “The Man” Musial baseball.

Rosanne Bopp and Peggy Groce help new member Alvie Sargent of the Muncie Indiana Transit System get registered.

St. Louis Metro travel trainers John McKenney and Angela D. Taylor are registered and waiting for the conference’s opening remarks.

Jeff Joyce of the North Central Illinois Council of Governments, Princeton, IL, and ATI’s Terry Moakley listen intently to a registration table conversation.

Moakley pictured here in the hotel courtyard with founding ATI Board members Millie Santiago Liebmann and the venerable Jack Gorelick, and Jack’s wonderful wife, Helen.

At the Saturday evening banquet, Moakley reads the criteria for the ATI Jack and Helen Gorelick Scholarship, pictured here with Jack and new ATI president Mary Riegelmayer.

Gorelick and Moakley share the spotlight with Gorelick Scholarship winner Ms. Jolene Bradford of Tracy, California.

Seated among members of the DisAbility Theater Group of St. Louis, who provided outstanding entertainment at our conference banquet, is the about-to-be-surprised Ms. Lydia Peterson.

Jack Gorelick greets the 2009 Jack Gorelick Award winner, Lydia Peterson. Lydia was honored for her many contributions and just plain hard work to advance ATI and the travel training profession.

As Moakley looks on, Lydia Peterson graciously accepts the Jack Gorelick Award.

Outgoing president Moakley is presented a plaque recognizing his service to ATI by incoming president Riegelmayer and past-president Groce.

Gorelick Award winner Peterson teaches Gorelick Scholarship winner Bradford how the polka is done in Minnesota.

This steadfast banquet “karaokean” is Larry Lindstrom of NJ TIP, Inc., of Livingston, New Jersey, proving that sometimes following the words is the toughest part.

Our lovely polka ladies, Jolene and Lydia, can sing, too!

East meets Midwest as New Jersey’s Louis Hoffman teams up with Minnesota’s Mark Hoiland to nail an Alanis Morrisette rock classic. A good time was enjoyed by all!