Dear Ginni and other ILCA Members, The full name of the Canadian Delegate who resigned in 1989 because her nursing school load, newborn, and ILCA BOD position became overwhelming was Michelle Martins. Additionally Linda Smith, who finished her first tenure on the ILCA BOD in July 1988, and who went on to be the Membership Coordinator also resigned in the Fall of 1988. Resignations are always "another story". In any business, agency, organization or group, they have traditionally meant anything from, being asked to leave by the leadership to actual dibilitating health reasons. Often in volunteer organizations (or those compensating with less-than-standard-pay-scale honorariums) you will see a mass exodus with: unresponsive leadership or leadership that has made the volunteer position so uncomfortable that it is no longer worth affiliating with the management group of the organization. I have worked with volunteer organizations, both as that volunteer and in a leadership capacity for over 25 years, most recently as President of the ILCA BOD, 1988-1990 (when one includes the year as President-Elect and immediate Past President it becomes 1987-1991). I have seen several such mass resignations in different groups over the years, and personally believe in the old adage: "where there is smoke, there is fire". But who started the fire is always the million-dollar question!! Jeanine Klaus, MS, IBCLC Oakville, Ontario