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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Gotham,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been traveling today and just reading my emails now and all I can say is \u201cThank You\u201d \u2013 my Inbox is overcome with your kind emails - truly appreciate all of the notes and well wishes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Gotham, I have enjoyed being part of the Tribe and working with you and for you as your Executive Director. It has been my pleasure to meet each of you and get to know you and where I could, help with Gotham ways.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Gotham is a special place \u2013 a wonderful combination of social support and business support \u2013 make the most of your membership \u2013 meet your fellow members, even if only in email <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Fred and Nancy, thank you for conceptualizing, building and nurturing this wonderful Tribe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This is not good bye as I will see you around Gotham <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If I can ever be of help to any of my Gotham family \u2013 don\u2019t hesitate to reach out.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Steve, you are a lucky man to be joining this Tribe \u2013 take good care of each one of them <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>All my best to you Gotham,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Debbie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Nancy Schess <NSchess@kleinzelman.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 29, 2018 11:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> Fredslist@gothamnetworking.com<br><b>Cc:</b> stephen.scully@racsny.com; Debbie Lindner <debbie@boulevardmarketing.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Big News from Gotham HQ<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div id=divRpF674770><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Hi Gotham,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>We write from Gotham HQ with some big news all effective on August 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Please join us in thanking our outgoing Executive Director, Debbie Lindner for her years of dedicated service to our organization and her networking prowess. Happily for Debbie, but sadly for us, her business has just become too big to be able to juggle it all and so she has decided that she must move on. Debbie won\u2019t ever be too far away though since we have all forged deep relationships we know will endure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>And . . . please join us in welcoming Stephen Scully as our incoming Operations Director/Network Liaison. Steve brings to us many years of experience in managing and running businesses together with a big smile and good cheer. While we know that no one can fill Debbie\u2019s shoes, we look forward to Steve bringing his perspective to Gotham. Steve\u2019s business, Red Apple Court Services, will also be the newest member of Gotham so you will see him for sure around our tables. Stay tuned to learn more about Steve and his business in the coming weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Debbie, please accept our collective gratitude for all you have done with and for Gotham over the years. We know we speak for the entire organization when we say you are going to be missed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Gothamly,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;orphans:2;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Fred and Nancy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Nancy B. Schess, Esq.<br>Partner<br>Klein Zelman Rothermel Jacobs & Schess LLP<br>Representing Management in Labor/Employment Law for Over 30 Years<br>485 Madison Avenue<br>New York, New York 10022<br>T: 212-935-6020 x219<br>F: 212-753-8101<br><a href="http://www.kleinzelman.com/">http://www.kleinzelman.com/</a><br><a href="mailto:nschess@kleinzelman.com">nschess@kleinzelman.com</a><br>Listed in NY Super Lawyer 2011-16 (Employment Law)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>