SeptembeR 2011 - Test - IHRSA

| Editor’s Welcome |
Kerry Brett
September 11, 2001. That date has taken on a
substance that few others own. It is serious, set
forever in place, as solid and unchanging as a
slab of black steel. Can it really be 10 years since
the horrific events of that stunning, mind-numbing
day took place and changed the world?
Yes, it has been 10 years, and, yes, the world remains changed.
History can flex, and bend, and stretch to untenable lengths, but,
once it’s been broken, it doesn’t snap back. Today, this place that
all of us call our home seems a bit less predictable, stable, secure.
Psychologically, viscerally, we remain on high alert.
Ten years ago, we reported on the experiences, the losses, and
the unfathomable tragedies that befell people who worked in, or
were members of, health clubs that were close to Ground Zero in
lower Manhattan.* Approximately 20 were located near the
World Trade Center, and, of that number, half were affected.
We heard about facilities that had been destroyed—a ClubCorp
affiliate on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center,
the corporate offices of Plus One, a Fitness
Company center at 3 World Trade Center; and we
heard from ones that had offered their clubs, staff,
and other resources to help New Yorkers in
need—Crunch Fitness, Equinox Fitness, Health
Fitness Corporation (HFC), The Sports Club Company,
The Sports Center at Chelsea Piers. …
There were many good Samaritans then.
For this issue of CBI, Contributing Editor Jon
Feld got back in touch with many of the same clubs
he’d described so tellingly, so indelibly, in those
dark days—ClubCorp, Crunch, Club One, Health
Fitness, Plus One—to see how the people and the
companies had changed, developed, and were doing today.
“The general sense conveyed was of strong resiliency, with
respect to the city, their businesses, and lives,” reports Feld. “While
a subliminal unease and heightened security remain part of the
new environment, there’s also optimism, progress, and renewal.”
Ironically, his observation reminded me of something that I’d
written, in this space, in the November 2001 issue of CBI:
“Let us begin by saying this: Let us not forget September 11.
And then, after a moment of silent reflection, let us pretend that
life will go on as usual. It will not. But what remains, although
changed—our families, homes, businesses, society—are the
bricks, the building blocks, from which a new and better future
will be fashioned.”
That rebirth is slowly taking place.
Let us end, by saying again: Let us not forget September 11. —|
– Craig R. Waters, c.waters@fit-etc.com
* “September 11: Ground Zero—A First-Person Account,” “September 11:
Industry Losses—Staff, Members, Suppliers,” CBI November 2001, pg. 13;
“Defining Moment,” CBI September 2002, pg. 42.
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