Congratulations to Michael Boaz, town manager, Weaverville, North Carolina, who was the first ICMA member to submit the correct answer to the June ICMA 100th Anniversary Trivia Quiz! The June quiz question, which had four parts, focused on the early years of the profession: 

1. What was the first city to establish a professional manager’s position and in what year was that position established?
2. What was the first city to adopt by a vote of the people a charter incorporating the basic principles of council-manager government and in what year was the charter adopted?  
3. What was the first Canadian city to introduce the council-manager form to Canada and in what year?
4. What was the first county to adopt the council-manager form and in what year?   

The answers are: 1-Staunton, Virginia, in 1908; 2-Sumter, South Carolina in 1912; 3-Westmount, Quebec, Canada in 1913; and 4-Iredell County, North Carolina, in 1927.Orin F. Nolting

This month, we test your knowledge of ICMA and the local government management profession with the following challenge from fairly recent history:

Two weeks after the 9-11 attacks, 3,000 valiant ICMA members gathered together for the organization’s annual conference. What number conference was it, and in which city and state did the event take place?

The first member to respond with the correct answer wins a men’s or women’s ICMA blue polo shirt cobranded with the 100th anniversary and Life, Well Run logos. (All of the logo items that have been given as prizes will be available for purchase at the Charlotte conference in September or through the ICMA Store.)

You can find the answer to this month’s anniversary trivia quiz question among the entries in the ICMA anniversary timeline 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 directly, or submit it to Amy Mayers at amayers@icma.org. Help us reach our goal of having at least 100 stories or other media posted by the time we arrive at the annual conference in Charlotte in September!

To submit your response to this month’s historical trivia quiz, send an email to anniversary@icma.org. Responses to the July 2014 question are due by Friday, July 18. To be eligible to win, you must be an ICMA member and cannot have won the quiz in the past six months. Good luck!