EDUCATION A House Divided Also, this year’s Friends of SAVTA Live Auction not only offers the normal fare of unique, quirky and useful items, but thanks to TimeMaster and Mike Potter, there will also be a pair of tickets to Elton John’s farewell tour concert in Lexington! It will also include a hotel night at the hotel attached to the concert venue. This is an awesome item that I know I will be bidding on myself. IAIL A new “chief” in charge of the Internation- al Association of Investigative Locksmiths promises to bring new classes, new in- structors and a new dedication to the “CSI of the locksmith world.” There will be investigative classes offered at the ALOA 2022 convention, and there has been dis- cussion about holding an IAIL confer- ence in the fall of 2022 somewhere in the northeast U.S. or upper Midwest. This will be a two- or three-day event with multiple daily classes and CFL certification testing. Regarding testing, there’s a concerted ef- fort to upgrade the written exams. AIL Thanks to ALOA Institutional Lock- smiths board (specifically, Vernon Kel- ley), there is now a full slate of exams available for PRP certifications aimed at institutional professionals. Now, in- stead of having to pass exams that deal 56 KEYNOTES JANUARY 2022 “We are also hopeful to bring back training to Dallas in 2022 as well as to locations around the country, with help from our sponsors.” with questions that include automotive, safe or other content that isn’t specific to institutions, there are tests that deal with specific hardware found in nearly all facilities. We’ve also been having discussions with several manufacturers and manufacturer reps regarding training from them on their products and product lines that we can host around the country at their facilities. IAAL The International Association of Automotive Locksmithing (IAAL) is the newest ALOA division and has the potential to be the most dynamic division in a short time. Simply by virtue of the number of technicians involved in the automotive side of our industry, the membership could grow rather rapidly. This division is way overdue, and thanks to the currently seated board, it is finally official. With a lineup of instructors that include Ed Woods, Mannie Natal, Tony Cagle, Donnie Sherfield, Rafael Marta, Jeff Baker, Travis Wright and more, the class offerings at ALOA 2022 should be exceptional. There is potential for an IAAL standalone conference in the fall of 2022 or the spring of 2023. This is an exciting development indeed. None of us can predict 2022 (heck, we can’t even predict the third week in Janu- ary). Assuming the skies don’t open and sinkholes that we can all fall into don’t form — or, hey, a virus not cause a glob- al pandemic that shuts down the entire world — the upcoming year looks like a grand return to education and certifi- cation by the “divided” but very much whole ALOA. Jim Hancock, CML, CMST, is ALOA’s educat ion manager. You can reach him at [email protected] or (214) 819-9733. WWW.ALOA.ORG
