Congratulations to Richard Brown, town administrator of Freetown, Massachusetts, who submitted the correct answer to our January 100th anniversary trivia quiz! The answer was 1974, the year in which Richard J. Stillman published his bestseller, The Rise of the City Manager.

This month, as we celebrate the final days of Black History Month, we test your knowledge of ICMA history with the following question:

Who was the first African-American president of ICMA, and in what year was he or she elected?

The first member to respond with the correct answer wins an ICMA-anniversary-branded item. This month’s prize is the 16-oz. ICMA anniversary Tervis tumbler.

You can find the answer among the entries in the ICMA anniversary timeline, which is located at the top of the anniversary website at icma.org/anniversary. Click on any of the decades to enter.

While you’re on the anniversary website, check out “The ICMA Experience,” a collection of stories and reminisces about the organization and the profession, as told through the words of your colleagues and friends. Then upload your own story or submit it to Amy Mayers at amayers@icma.org.

To submit your response to this month’s historical trivia quiz, send an email to: anniversary@icma.org. Responses to the February question must be submitted by Friday, February 28. To be eligible to win, you must be an ICMA member and cannot have won the quiz in the past six months.

Good luck!

 

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