Posted to Industry Issues Forum on 3/22/2016
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The Automotive world has been missing a great advocate for a
while. Dave DeCourcey is suffering from liver failure even
though he has never been a drinker. As Dave waits for a
liver to become available, our community suffers not having
him promoting the industry and providing us with valuable
technician training.
If you don't know Dave, let me scratch the surface and share
my experience. I first met Dave about ten years ago at the
Linder Conference in Indianapolis. It was my first time
attending the conference and I was hanging with a small
group that I had only known a short time. During one of the
breaks this guy starts talking, he's larger than life, funny
and outgoing. I was wondering who the heck this guy was. I
came to find out that Dave had convinced somewhere around
fifteen guys to jump on a plane from Boston to attend the
conference. I was later told that Dave had paid for some of
them. Dave believed in training so much that he was
infectious. I would see Dave at Vision and Linder every
year, always fun and knowledgeable. When Jim Linder stopped
the Linder conference, I would see Dave at other training
events. Dave was an expert at demonstrating his "find
training and GO" attitude! Dave also served as a trainer in
his area to make sure knowledge was spread.
Why am I sharing this? I have discussed with some of his
closest friends, Sheri Hamilton and Scott Brown about the
creation of the Dave DeCourcey Scholarship. ASA-Midwest is
willing to host the scholarship and has a 501c3 account to
accept funds. We feel that this is a great way to honor
Dave. It is our sincere hope that Dave is the person to
award the scholarship next year.
I would like to ask that you help with this effort. It will
take a large amount of money to keep this scholarship alive
but ANY dollar amount will help. Sharing stories about Dave
on iATN, Facebook and email will also help the effort.
Please inspire others to give. We are hoping to far exceed
the goal. Anyone that has ever had their vehicle repaired
needs to understand that people like Dave, are why the
repair was done correctly.
I'm including some photos of Dave from a WPS class. Please
feel free to share your photosl
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Bob from Illinois
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