President John Park thanks and congratulates our member M. Antonieta Alfaro-Snively for her contribution with ACAP by starting up the Corporate Program and making it a success this year.

We also want to thank and welcome our new associate members who will be representing: Peru Copper, Bear Creek, Merendon, Regus, Scotiabank, E-Cargo, CBRE CB Richard Ellis, Exprinter Inversiones, ST2 Solutions, Delta Air Lines, JW Marriott, Inspectorate Services, Security International Moving, Envirolab Peru, Air Canada, Punta Sal, Excel International, Jorge Luis Lluncor and Enrique Cantt.

We would like to remind all members of the American & Canadian Association of Peru that the Annual General Meeting will be held in January at the residence of the United States Ambassador. The election for 2008´s ACAP Board of Directors will be held at this meeting, which will be during the second half of January at the US Ambassador's residence. We are still awaiting confirmation of the date from his office. It will be a dinner, free for all members, after which we will have the meeting.

We urge all members to attend. For further information on this event, contact the ACAP office.

Several of the nominees are returning members of the BOD, they are:

President: Michael DeBakey (Director 2007)
Michael M. DeBakey, 68, is a US citizen, who has been a resident of Lima, Peru for over 47 years. He is a graduate of the University of the South, and the American Institute for Foreign Trade. He was Managing Director of Texaco, Inc. in Perú for 7 years, and then in 1967 founded Interamerican Development Representatives SA, the representative for General Dynamics Corporation (USA) and was instrumental in the sale and financing of several aircraft to different South American Airlines. In 1968, he founded the RECEPTOUR Group, a series of firms related to tourism and hotels, such as the Hotel Libertador in Cuzco which became the first Marriott hotel in Peru, as well as hotels in Puno, Iquitos and Arequipa, an Amazon cruise ship, the Amazon Lodge in Iquitos, and was the General Agent for PAN AMERICAN airlines for 17 years. In 2000 the Group was sold to Ultramar International of Chile. Mr. DeBakey has been a Director of the South American Travel Organization SATO, founding President of the ASTA (American Society of Travel Agents) Chapter for Perú, Bolivia, & Ecuador, and has been a member of the Special Advisory Board to the Ministry of industry & Tourism, as well as the Lima Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Borad of FOPTUR, and was founder, first President and Director several times of the Peruvian Association of Tour Operators
APOTUR, and President of the AMCHAM Tourism Comité. At present, Mr. DeBakey divides his time breeding Peruvian Paso horses, his Business interests, and his Peruvian wife Techi, and their 8 children and 16 grandchildren.

Vice-President: Jerry Kaufman (Director 2006-2007)
Directors-at-large: Tom Findley
Alan LaRue
Shad Prashad (Vice-President 2007)
Gary Van Brocklin

The nominees who were not on the BOD this year are:
Treasurer: James Cuningham (Former Treasurer)
Secretary: Linda Hewitt (Office Manager)
Directors-at-Large: Anne Bertsch
Robert Delaney (US Embassy CLO)
Carol Klusnik (Roosevelt Headmistress)