As you know, AASV represents the interests of our membership and that of the pig on a wide variety of topics. We are frequently asked to offer up some names of our members to serve on working groups, professional associations, committees, etc. I would really like to encourage a younger generation of our membership to start getting involved in these opportunities. It’s important that we start transferring this wealth of institutional memory to our next generation of leaders and that we engage some new thoughts and inputs into solving the problems facing our profession and the swine industry we serve. If you’re interested in serving the association and the profession in this manner, I’d love to hear from you. Please email me (Snelson@aasv.org) and include any particular topic area of interest (such as welfare, antimicrobials, foreign or emerging swine diseases, etc) or special skill set you might possess (such as welfare, pharmacology, epidemiology, government policy, genetics, etc). I’ll put your name on a list and contact you the next time we have an opportunity. Also, let me know if you are interested in serving on an AASV committee. Come on, stop being a waiter and start serving.