VIRGINIA COUNCIL REPORT TO REGION 3 EXCOMM
November, 2003

Virginia's eastern sections were hit hard by Hurricane Isabel, causing
section meetings in Hampton and Richmond to be cancelled, and the
planned Leadership Training session to be postponed.  Many of our
members were directly affected, including Adeeb Hamzey, Council
Vice-chair and Richmond Section Chair, who is still riding the trouble
truck in hard hat and boots for Dominion Power, helping restore
service outages all over the state.  He will represent the Council at
the R3 meeting in Atlanta.

Plans to host a future Southeastcon are still on hold.

Virginia Mountain, luckily was spared the brunt of the storm.  Short
power outages and spontaneous week-end visitors from eastern friends
and relatives were the only effects.  Two Section meetings and a
Chapter meeting were held:
* Sept - Dr. George Lester on Gasoline/Electric Hybrid Vehicles
* Oct - tour of WDBJ digital broadcast TV station
* Oct - Computer/Control/IES Chapter meeting at Virginia Tech, Jason
        Lockhart, director of High Performance Computing, on "Big
        Mac", Tech's new super-computer built from 1100 Macintosh
        G5's.
* Nov - Tim Cribs, GE Industrial Systems, will talk on GE Wind
        projects.

Virginia Mountain also established an award in honor of the late Dan
Jackson: an annual prize to be given at the Western Virginia Regional
Science Fair for high school and middle school children.

The Virginia Council also donated $100 to Good Samaritan Hospice in
Dan's name.

David H. Geer, P.E.
IEEE Virginia Council Chair