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Nov/Dec 2007 Newsletter

President's Report for ISCC News, August/September 2007

    When I originally sat down to write this column, it was to be about the two strengths of the ISCC that I described in my first column in the 75th Anniversary of the ISCC newsletter last summer. They are the strong spirit of community among ISCC mem- bers and the broad scope of their interests in color. Sadly, there is now a third topic for this column, the passing of Ralph Stanziola and Therese Commerford.
    It’s hard to talk about the strengths of the ISCC without thinking of people like Ralph and Terry who have contributed so much and were a steady and enthusiastic presence at our meetings. The tributes to them in this issue are a reminder of where our strengths ultimately come from.
    Our next meeting illustrates one of those strengths, the scope of the color interests brought together under the umbrella of the ISCC and its member bodies. We are joining with one of them, Color Marketing Group (CMG), to sponsor a day-and-a- half-long program on the “The RGB’s of Color,” covering the emotional impact, sustainability and reproduction of color. Who else but the ISCC, along with a member body like CMG, could host a meeting linking such diverse areas of color? Jim Roberts of BYK-Gardner and Barbara Parker of JDS – Flex Products Group will chair the meeting next spring, March 28-29, in Montreal. For details, see the Call for Papers that appears later in this newsletter. When I talked about the spirit of community in my first column, I also talked about how the Web and social networking tools present opportunities for this community to express itself and interact in new ways. With this issue of the newsletter, we will take advantage of one of these opportunities with a blog.
    Since the Hue Angles column, edited by Mike Brill of Datacolor, debuted in the Nov/Dec 2006 issue of the newsletter, some readers have said how they wanted to comment on its content, but that there wasn’t a good way to do it. A reflector was one possibility but a blog seemed like an easier way and one that could extend the reach of the ISCC.
    So Dave Wyble, our webmaster, created HueAngles.blogspot.com, which is linked to our web site, www.iscc.org. It is currently configured so that you can comment without having to log in. After you read this month’s Hue Angles column on Colors and Contextual Effects and have someing to say about it, try using our new Hue Angles blog.

Robert Buckley
Xerox Corporation

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