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Donald Lounds Brother Lounds was appointed First District International Vice President by then-International President J. J. Barry effective October 1, 1997, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Ken Woods. He was elected to that post at the IBEW 36th International Convention in San Francisco in 2001. A native of Oshawa, Ontario, Vice President Lounds attended public schools there as well as the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute. He was initiated into the IBEW in 1960 and, at age 19, took on an immediate role in the affairs of his local. He became an executive board member of Local 874 in Oshawa in 1962 and served several terms before being elected business manager/financial secretary in 1970. He served in that capacity until April 1974 when he was appointed to the First District staff and assigned to Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The provincial government appointed him to several labor-related boards, including workers compensation and the Canadian Standards Association. In 1979, he was re-assigned to the First District Office and served as executive assistant to Vice President Woods from 1987 until he succeeded Woods in 1997. At the time of his retirement Vice President Lounds was a member of the executive board of the Canadian Building and Construction Trades and a general vice president of the Canadian Labour Congress. He also served on the boards of the Construction Sector Council, the Canadian Labour and Business Centre and the Canadian Union Advantage Benefit Plan. Brother Lounds is the father of three children, Jon, Sarah and Bert and the proud grandfather to Jon and Melanies children, Tyler, Nolan and Alyssa. He has also served as coach or manager for a variety of neighborhood hockey and baseball teams. The Brotherhood wishes Vice President Lounds all the best in retirement.
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First District International Vice President Donald Lounds has announced his retirement effective October 1, 2003. 
