Happy New Year!

Welcome to the first issue of the EMC Society Newsletter for 2002!

You will surely see a few changes in this Newsletter, most notably the addition of paid advertising. The EMC Society Board of Directors approved the addition of paid advertising in the Newsletter as a means to offset some of the expenses of this quarterly publication. Advertising was first personally solicited at the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Montreal. Susan Schneiderman of IEEE Media, who handles the advertising for the Newsletter, walked the aisles in the exhibit hall from one end to the other to hand out media kits. She lined up commitments then and there for the full-page cover advertisements you see contained in this issue! We also placed ads to notify members of the availability to advertise in the 2002 issues of the EMC Society Newsletter in the Summer and Fall 2001 issues. Eventually, it is expected that advertising will completely underwrite the cost of publishing the Newsletter. The addition of advertising in the Newsletter also takes us one step further in the direction of becoming a full-fledged EMC magazine; this transition is one of the long-range goals of the EMC Society Board of Directors. If you or your company is interested in advertising in the EMC Society Newsletter, please contact Susan Schneiderman. Her contact information appears on page 3 under Newsletter Staff.

Speaking of page 3 and the “Newsletter Staff” box, some of you may have noticed a change in this issue in the listing of Associate Editors. Bob Olson is now the “Technical Editor” of the Newsletter. As the practical papers section of the Newsletter grew, it was only fitting that Bob’s enhanced role in the publication of the Newsletter be recognized. We are very fortunate in having Bob’s technical expertise supporting this publication. It helps the Board realize yet another long-range goal of the Newsletter/future magazine; that is, to be one of the premier technical EMC publications in the industry. We hope to attract and publish only the highest quality practical papers.

Sadly, this issue also features profiles of three esteemed members of the EMC Society who passed away last year. Don Bush was a fellow member of the EMC Society Board of Directors so I knew him quite well. I will always remember his ready laugh and soft-spoken manner. He was a true southern gentleman who will be sincerely missed by all who knew him. Likewise, Tom Doeppner and Seymour Krevsky were bastions of the IEEE on the east coast. I noted when reading the Chapter Chatter text in this issue for the Dallas EMC Chapter, that one of their long time members, Dick Troup, also passed away in 2001. Dick was one of my first customers when I sold RF power line filters. I was working for LectroMagnetics, Inc. (LMI) and Dick was working for Electrospace, based in Richardson, Texas. I was just out of college and was very nervous on my first sales calls. Dick always made me feel welcome and would treat me to a cup of coffee in his company cafeteria whenever I came to visit. I always appreciated his kind hospitality. The EMC Society lost some of its finest members in 2001.

If you have any comments on our new “look” for 2002, please send a letter to the Newsletter! EMC