I am pleased to be communicating with you via this
President’s column as your new EMC Society President. Operating under the new by-laws
of the Society, you will be dealing with me as your President for both 1998 and 1999 as I
will be enjoying a two-year term as your designated leader.
Congratulations are in order to outgoing President Bill Gjertson for his demonstrated administrative and leadership skills over the past two years. Good luck in his next IEEE volunteer assignment as Division IV Director Elect!
I would like to thank the outgoing Members of the Board: Bill Duff, Bill Ritenour, and Bill Gjertson for their excellent service to the Society over the past three years. (Apparently, our members thought we had too many “Bills” on the Board!) Our continuing members, re-elected to another three-year term, are Todd Hubing, Don Sweeney, and Kimball Williams.
Congratulations to all three for their past service and their continuing involvement!
Our new members of the Board, for 1998-2000, will be Henry Ott, Henry Benitez, Mark Montrose, Ferdy Mayer and Takeo Yoshino. My sincere congratulations to all five of the new Board Members.
Lastly, I must thank returning Treasurer Warren Kesselman and Secretary Janet O’Neil for their dedicated service over the years.
Our Board will have twenty members in 1998 as we added two members from outside the United States, Mr. Mayer and Mr. Yoshino, under our new by-law changes. Ferdy Mayer will be representing Region 9 and Takeo Yoshino will be representing Region 10 under our new emphasis on making the Board of Directors of the EMC Society more international in membership.
The entire Board, including the officers and executive committee, is looking forward to 1998. We ask for your inputs on EMC-related issues and we promise to do our best in serving the members of our Society. Our 1998 Board Meetings will be held in Seattle (Washington), Denver (Colorado), Rome (Italy), and Piscataway (New Jersey). Our Board meetings are open to all members and I invite you to consider attending one or more of our meetings. Note the Board meeting dates in the Calendar section of this Newsletter.
I would like to remind you that the IEEE 1998 International Symposium on EMC will be held in Denver from August 24-28. This is the high-point of the year for our EMC Society and I encourage you to begin planning on attending the event. For more information, contact the Denver Symposium Web Site at https://ball.com/aerospace/ieee_emc.html
It is an honor and a privilege to be leading the EMC Society. I look forward to meeting many of you over the next two years, either in person or via E-mail (dhoolihan@tuvps.com) or by phone (612-638-0250) or by FAX (612-638-0285).
We have been one of the fastest growing Societies in the IEEE over the past few years; I expect that growth-rate to continue as we charge forward into the 21st Century.
Dan Hoolihan
President, EMCS
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