From a_hargrove@juno.com Fri Mar 31 00:42:33 2000
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:36:33 -0500
From: Andrew Hargrove <a_hargrove@juno.com>
To: d.green@ieee.org
Subject: In Memoriam, Valdemar Bodin, PE

The Virginia Council report to Region 3 is in the form of a triibute and
memoriam to the late Val Bodin.


IN MEMORIAM: VALDEMAR BODIN, PE

Valdemar Bodin. PE, respected and beloved by all, died March 13, 2000
at Johnson-Willis Hospital in Richmond, VA at age 70, after an 11
month battle with cancer.

Val was born April 8, 1929 to Janie Agnes Carter Bodin and the late Erik
Bodin. At an early age he became a member of Pisgah Baptist Church in
Rice, five miles from the larger town of Farmville, VA.

Valdemar has held many engineering and management positions during a
Bell Systems career that spanned the years 1945 to 1983. He took some
time out to obtain his BSEE from Virginia Tech in 1949, served in the,
Army and worked several years in the blossoming TV broadcast industry.

After taking early retirement from the Bell system, he worked as a
consultant with the Electrical Distributors Company of Conshohocken,
Pennsylvania, and as an associate of Payne-Lendman, Inc, (now Lendman
Associate), an executive out-placemenmt firm in Virginia Beach,
Virginia.
                             
He later became a Senior Engineer with the Virginia Department of
Information Technology, which administers the state's sizeable
telecommunications network.. After retiring from the state of
Virginia, he went into private practice with John T. Moore Associates,
a Richmond consulting firm.

Val was very active in IEEE Region 3 and served on the United States
Activities Board (USAB) in 1982. In 1984 he was chair of the
Government Procurement and Regulations Committee under USAB's Career
Activities Council. He was the Region's Government Activities
Coordinator, serving on the State Government Activities Committee and
worked with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' state
government operation as IEEE liaison.

His awards include the (first) Virginia Council Service Award, the
Region 3 Professional Activities Award, Region 3 Service Award, the
USAB Citation of Honor, and the IEEE Centennial Medal. Along the way
he served as IEEE Richmond Section chair, IEEE Virginia Council chair
and general chair of IEEE SOUTHEASTCON `86 in Richmond. He was very
active in the Virginia Society of Professional Engineers (VSPE), NSPE
and also active in numerous clubs and organizations.

He was a faithful member of Pisgah Baptist Church in Rice,
Virginia. He was also Past Master of Manchester Masonic Lodge #14,
Past High Priest of the Royal Arch Chapter 48, and a Shriner in the
ACCA Temple. Val was also a member of he Manchester Moose Family
Center 699, where he played in the country-western band. Val is
survived by his mother Mrs Janie Agnes Carter Bodin of Farmville, his
daughter , Mrs Tyra Bowman of Rice, Virginia and two grand children,
Amber and Riley III.

The funeral was held at Shorter Funeral Home in Farmville on March 16
with internment at Trinity Memorial Gardens, Rice, VA. Mrs Bowman has
stated that contributions in memory of Val may be made to the American
Cancer Society, 729 Thimble Shoals Blvd, Newport News, VA 23606.


Andrew Hargrove, PE
Chairman
IEEE Virginia Council