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Here Dan Peterson, the new President takes the torch from
Jim Arimond, who had been chapter president for a record 10 years.
The tradition started in 1989 when Carol Narup, the incoming president, received this autographed photograph from Karl Baughman, the outgoing president.
The source of the autographed photo is described below.
Here Carol Narup, who had been the chapter president
for 5 years, passes the torch to Jim Arimond, the new chapter president.
The symbol of office is the famous photograph of the Earth rise taken from lunar orbit by astronaut Jim Lovell of Apollo 8 and 13 fame.
Jim Lovell spoke to the Chicago chapter in 1989 and the tradition was born of passing this photograph from the outgoing to the incoming president.