EDITOR TO STEP DOWN AT CONVENTION

Indiana Postal Workers Union (IPWU) Editor Michael Hibbard has announced that he will be retiring from his position as State Editor at the upcoming IPWU State Convention in Bloomington, Indiana.
Hibbard has been continuously appointed to his position on the IPWU State Executive Board since the State Convention of 1985, twenty-one years ago.
He has, with the help of the State Executive Board, the union locals, and the membership, published 241 monthly newsletters since his first state newsletter in June of 1985. More than 2,000 individual pages of information have been written, designed and posted for the newsletter, and more than 216,900 copies of the state newsletter have been distributed to state union members, locals, officers, and others since that time.
"My first state convention I attended was in Bloomington," he states, "so it is only fitting that my last one will be there as well."
In addition to his work as State Editor, Hibbard has also served the union membership in The Terre Haute (Indiana) Area Local as local president, local vice president, local recording secretary, local clerk craft vice president, local corporation trustee, local hospital plan representative, and local editor.
In his union career, he was also appointed, then elected, to national office in the American Postal Workers Union National Postal Press Association as an editor-at-large.
"Spending my time helping other people has been a rewarding career for me," Hibbard says. "When you help others, good things happen to you."
The Editor, as we know him, plans to spend his free time in the arts.
"I want to write and paint and make music and continue to pass ideas along to those who are open or becoming open to themselves and their environments. Such things will keep all of us young," he says.
It is something he has always wanted to do, he says.