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October 2005 IBEW Journal Transitions Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 Retired A longtime labor leader, Brother Querry served for more than two decades as business manager/financial secretary of Local 53, Kansas City, Missouri. He recently retired as business manager. International President Edwin D. Hill appointed Querry as temporary International Representative on July 1, 2005; he will focus on organizing in the outside line branch. Brother Querry’s IBEW career began in 1957 with his initiation into Local 814 in Sedalia, Missouri. He started work at Missouri Public Service as a groundman and in 1965 became a journeyman lineman. In the late 1960s Querry transferred his membership to Local 53 and went on to lead the local through a notable period of growth. Prior to his 1981 election as Local 53 business manager, Querry served the local as business representative from 1975-1981. During his leadership tenure, Local 53 grew from 1,400 members in the mid-1970s to approximately 2,100 today in the construction, utility, line clearance and broadcast industries, including employees of municipal utilities in the cities of Independence, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas. Under Querry’s leadership Local 53 also made significant strides in political activism. Since 1975, Querry served on a majority of the local’s negotiating teams, winning scores of union contracts. He also served as administrator of the IBEW-NECA Local 53 Joint Outside Electrical Workers Retirement Fund, and trustee of the IBEW-NECA Line Construction Benefit Fund. Currently, he serves as chairman of the Line Construction Benefit Fund and on the Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kansas City, board of directors. He served in the U.S. Army, 5 th Infantry Division, from 1961-1963. He attended Fort Osage High School and Kansas City Art Institute. He and his wife, Sandra “Sandy” Querry, have two daughters, three grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. IBEW officers, staff and members congratulate Brother Querry on his accomplished career and extend best wishes for much success in his new endeavors.
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Fifth District International Executive Council member Lyle Keith Querry completed a distinguished 13-year tenure of service on the IEC with his June 30, 2005, resignation from that post. The IEC Fifth District covers a 10-state region that includes Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. 
IBEW International President Edwin D. Hill has appointed, and the IEC has confirmed, Robert W. Pierson, business manager of Local 9 in Chicago, Illinois, to fill the unexpired term of Keith Querry as IEC member from the Fifth District. A biography of IEC member Pierson will appear in the next issue of the IBEW Journal.