I wish Steve the best of luck, though I think he has never had the gonads to stand up to the Wash Pav’s board of trustee dictatorship, I still think his heart was in the right place. I wonder if the Steinbeck Center will let him have a concert by Hank III or the Rev.?

CEO of Washington Pavilion to leave
By Staff Reports
Argus Leader
Published: August 2, 2007

Steven Hoffman, the CEO of the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science for the past decade, has accepted a position in California and will leave his job at the Sioux Falls facility, officials announced today.

Hoffman will become CEO of the National John Steinbeck Center in Salinas Calif., effective Oct. 1.

“Over the last 10 years Steve has successfully guided the Washington Pavilio
from just a shell of a building to the pre-eminent arts organization in the region,” Raven Industries CEO Ron Moquist, who is chairman of the board of trustees of the Washington Pavilion, said in a statement.

Moquist has appointed Sandra Pay, vice chairperson of the Pavilion’s trustee board, to form and head a search committee to find Hoffman’s replacement.