December 12, 2008

Columbus Board of Realtors Centennial Ball

This Saturday night the 6500+ member Columbus Board of Realtors have their Centennial Ball at the Aladdin Shrine Center.

The Easton Towne Center is across the street which provides plenty of fun spots for pre-ball parties and/or shopping at Nordstrom, Macys, the new Tiffany store, or Restoration Hardware.

This is an especially exciting year for The Cam Taylor Co. Ltd. Realtors® as one of senior partners and manager, Gary Parsons, will be the new President of the Columbus Board of Realtors in its 101 Year.

I have the privilege of presenting Gary for the installation and I have decided to provide some of the text here first. I guess GuideMeHomeToColumbus.com gets a “scoop” in a sense.

“It is an honor to introduce and participate in the installation of our new President Gary Parsons. Gary, with the support of his lovely wife Susan, is ready and more than capable to tackle this job in a year which looks somewhat problematic and challenging to all of us. I am confident that Gary will lead with the understanding that any Problems and Challenges are nothing more than OPPORTUNITIES TO BE OF SERVICE. That lesson in life was taught to us by our good friend and guest here tonight Campbell Taylor Jr.

Gary has made a major contribution to our Cam Taylor Company. For 35 years he has helped manage and lead as we have become members of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^®.

Because of Cam Taylor’s steadfast commitment to the relocation industry, and leadership such as that Gary has given us, we recently received – -as one of only 44 companies in the United States, - the RELO Quality Certification Award for excellence in relocation services. For our small group of 17 Realtors®, this is huge and we are very proud. Without the guidance of Gary and all of our Realtors® working together this would not be possible. And now Gary joins a select group of Columbus Realtors® who have reached the top level of service to our Board. Again as a group of a few at Cam Taylor Co we are very proud and humbled by the opportunity to be of service.

Tonight whatever I will say to you about my good friend and business partner of many years might sound expected and obligatory. But there was no mandatory script for me. My comments are true and are obvious to all who observe him. Gary is as sound an individual as I have ever known. Seldom flustered, he is one to go to in an emergency. He does not need consensus to act. He has the ability to sift through the chaff of desires and recommendations to get to a correct solution. He is a warrior when things get tough. He and we are fortunate to have an excellent executive officer, Larry Metzger, and a wonderful management staff to work with at the “Board”. Author Peter Drucker said “good management is doing things right,- good LEADERSHIP IS DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. Gary has the gift of making the right decisions and doing the Right Things. He will lead us well with courage and confidence."

We are also proud that Karl Schneider will be inducted into the 25 Million Dollar Club. He will join fellow Cam Taylor Co. associates; Penny Call, Marge Drake, Dennis Jewett, Brian Kuyper, Gary Parsons, Chris Rosen, Carla Zak and Phil Giessler in the highest sales achievement recognition of the Columbus Board.

Posted By: Phil Giessler