VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN SECTION NEWSLETTER IEEE Region 3, Council 09, Section 65 July, 1999 Special Issue Contents ************************************************************ 1. Announcing our 50th Anniversary Celebration 2. Spring Election Results 3. IEEE-USA E-Mail Updates Available ************************************************************( 1 ) VMS Golden Anniversary Celebration Hotel Roanoke September 16, 1999 Reserve September 16, 1999 from 6 to 10pm for a special occasion. The Virginia Mountain Section is starting its 50th year with a celebration meeting at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. In honor of this once in a lifetime event IEEE President Ken Laker and IEEE-USA President Paul Kostek will be our distinguished speakers. Each of them will tell us where they believe IEEE and IEEE-USA is headed. There are many interesting activities going on which may affect the organization of the Institute and its public image. This is your opportunity to meet and talk with your leaders. In addition, our Region 3 Director Dale Caston will be presenting a 50th anniversary banner to the Section. Few sections have reached this milestone. Be part of the celebration. Bring your spouse with you as this will be a social occasion as well. And the good news: cost is expected to be only $15.00 to $20.00 for members and $7.00 to $10.00 for students. Additional details will be in the September Newsletter. SEE YOU ALL ON SEPTEMBER 16. HAPPY 50th! ************************************************************( 2 ) Election Results Over 50 ballots were returned for the 1999 VMS election. We believe this is a recent year record, another positive sign of the greater interest as reflected in meeting attendance over the past few years. This in turn must reflect the hard work of the Program Chairs. A great big thanks. The voters elected Officers Ed Wheeler - Chair Dave Kingma - Vice Chair Howard Moses - Secretary, Treasurer Executive Committee Members at Large: John Bay Russell Churchill John Fennick Ira Jacobs Chapter Chairs: Dave Geer - Industrial Electronics/Computer/Control Systems (IE/C/CS) Dave was the only candidate, out of four openings, for a chapter chair position. However, the following people received write-in votes. Dave Livingston contacted them and they agreed to serve. The remaining three chapters will be headed up by: Dal Ohm - Industry Applications (IA) Tim Gittemeier - Microwave Theory & Techniques/Electron Devices (MTTT/ED) Ted Aaron - Power Engineering (PE) Shortly after the election, Ed Wheeler announced that he was accepting a position at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and so would be moving out of the Region by the end of summer. We will certainly miss Ed's enthusiastic support of the VMS but wish him the very best in his new undertakings and extend our sincere thanks for his contributions to the VMS during his relatively short tenure here. Dan Jackson volunteered his services as and, at a special meeting in June, the ExComm appointed him to serve as Section Chair for the coming season. ************************************************************( 3 ) CALLING ALL U.S. IEEE MEMBERS -- ANNOUNCING IEEE-USA'S E-MAIL UPDATE SERVICE This summer, receive timely, regular e-mail updates, plus special offers on IEEE-USA products and services that will help you maintain a lifetime career. Choose the e-mail update list service that's right for you: -- IEEE-USA TODAY (featuring the latest on career building products and services) AND/OR -- IEEE-USA EYE ON WASHINGTON (featuring updates on career and technology-policy activities) For your convenience, we've developed an easy-to-use web sign-up form. Open your web browser, and go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/emailupdates. Subscribe by entering your name and e-mail address. You'll automatically be added to the appropriate list. It's that simple! OR, you can subscribe via e-mail: 1) Open a new mail message. 2) In the "To:" line, enter the e-mail address: majordomo@majordomo.ieee.org 3) In the body of the message, key in: SUBSCRIBE, the list name you're interested in (EITHER ieeeusatoday OR ieeeusa-eyeonwashington), and your e-mail address. Here's a sample signup: SUBSCRIBE ieeeusatoday youraddress@yourprovider.com To be included on BOTH lists, send two separate emails. PLEASE NOTE: Replies to sender are automatically discarded. If you participate, you'll be able to unsubscribe at any time. If you don't wish to participate, there's no need to act. STILL QUESTIONS? Send an e-mail message to Pender McCarter at p.mccarter@ieee.org