The Past President's Message

The Accelerator Section of the Health Physics Society (HPS) held its annual business meeting during the 2005 annual meeting of the HPS in Spokane, Washington. At this meeting, newly elected officers were announced and immediately assumed their respective positions. The officers of the section for 2005-06 are

• President: Lorraine Marceau-Day
• President-elect: Scott Walker
• Past president: Sayed Rokni
• Secretary: Michael Duran
• Treasurer: Marcia Torres
• Newsletter editor: Linnea Wahl
• Directors:
  • Stephen Butala (2006)
  • Kamran Vaziri (2006)
  • Douglas Wells (2007)
  • Gary Zeman (2007)
• New director: Mike Sandvig (2008)
• New director: Henry Tran (2008)

Many thanks to Bob Casey, the previous past president of the section for managing another successful task.

• Linnea Wahl, our valued newsletter editor, was the recipient of the section’s volunteer award. The award reads "Outstanding Volunteer Award: This certificate is awarded to Linnea Wahl in recognition of outstanding contribution to the Accelerator Section." Thanks to Linnea, the newsletter is serving as the main source of exchange of information and an excellent communication tool for the section members and colleagues worldwide.
• The G. William Morgan Lecture was presented by Alberto Fasso from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center on the "Accelerator Shielding Design: From Protons to Electrons, from America to Europe and Back." Alberto’s account of how communication and exchange of information between Europe and the US have contributed to the accelerator shielding design was very informative and well received. (See the abstract of Alberto's presentation below and the full text on-line.)