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President's Report
Robert Buckley ISCC President
In this column, I want to get you caught up on all that has happened since the last issue of the newsletter. There’s been a lot.
On March 26, the ISCC Board met by conference call. On the call we dealt with several organizational and governance matters. First of all, we finalized and approved the 2008 budget: a little late and a little tight, but balanced. Nevertheless I expect we will have to be vigilant about expenses this year.
We reviewed and approved the candidates for Board positions whose terms start this year—the President-Elect and three new Directors: their bios are in this issue, along with the ballot. Since there are as many candidates as there are positions, the ballot may seem like a needless formality, but it does provide members the opportunity to either propose other candidates or support the listed candidates.
We also agreed to approach Danny Rich, a past President and font of lore about the ISCC, to fill the remainder of Sandy Austin’s term on the Board. I am happy to say he has agreed to serve; it will be good to be working with him again. (My conversation with him about this occurred at the FIRST Robotics Regional in Philadelphia, where our sons’ high school teams both happened to be competing. My son’s team uses red camouflage as a theme—a possible topic for a future Hue Angles blog.)
At the Board meeting we also shuffled the Interest Group Chairs some. This is worth noting since the Chairs will be the focus of the sessions at the Annual Meeting. Jim Roberts was IG1 Chair and is now IG3 Chair; Dave Wyble has moved up to take his place as IG1 Chair. Jaime Gomez remains IG2 Chair.
Finally, we reviewed and approved seven applications for new individual members of the ISCC.
The same week as the Board meeting, Romesh Kumar, our Arrangements Chair, finalized contracts with the hotel for the Annual Meeting in Baltimore. We will be meeting at the Tremont Suite Hotels, a few blocks from the Inner Harbor. Details on the hotel reservations and the call for papers for the meeting are later in this issue, so let me tell here you about Jack Ladson’s site inspection.
According to Jack, the hotel is a converted apartment building and each room has a mini kitchen. The meeting rooms are in an attached building, which was a Masonic Lodge, built in 1857. Jack described the meeting rooms as extraordinary. It appears the choice of hotel and location have become the first steps in staging what we expect will be a successful meeting in Baltimore in September.
One final word about this year’s Annual Meeting. We are planning to use the “RGB’s of Color” as a theme at the meeting. Originally conceived by Jim Roberts, it covers the emotional, sustainability and reproduction aspects of color—the things that make you see red or green or blue. Already encompassing color in the arts, sciences and industry, it seems fitting that the ISCC should come up with another tripartite approach to color.
Besides the Annual Meeting in Baltimore and the Special Topics Meeting on Safety Colors following it, we will have the “Black and White” Special Topics Meeting in association with the IS&T, following the Color Imaging Conference in November in Portland.
I have been in touch with Bob Hunt about the meeting, which he has expressed interest in attending. The program is still a ways away, but Bob will be in town the day before the “Black and White” meeting for a special symposium to honor him and recognize his enormous contributions to the field of color, contributions for which he received the ISCC Godlove Award last year.
Let me close with a reminder to take a look at our redesigned website now that Dave Wyble has completed the conversion. Send him any feedback you have as well as suggestions for content or updates.
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