Geotechnical News December 2011
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CGS NEWS
ence. The purpose of this dinner is for
the previous
Legget Medal
winners
to get better acquainted with the new
2011
Legget Medal
winner who is
Dr.
Liam Finn
from the University of Brit-
ish Columbia.
Dr. Finn
has been one
of the leading authorities in geotechni-
cal earthquake engineering since the
1960s. The Legget dinner always has a
theme and this year we asked six of the
attendees to describe early influences
that guided them towards geotechnical
engineering. My only regret was that
we did not think to record those re-
sponses as they were vivid descriptions
of geotechnical history.
Attending the Legget dinner were
Dr. Gabriel Auvinet
, ISSMGE Vice-
President, North America, from the
Instituto de Ingenieria UNAM, and
Dr.
Roberto Terzariol
, ISSMGE Vice-
President, South America, from the
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in
Argentina. Our
Dr. Adams
also attend-
ed the dinner with a few kind words.
Dr. Terzariol asked if this was the same
J.I. Adams who published a technical
paper in the 1960s with Dr. Meyerhoff
on the uplift capacity of foundations.
Dr. Terzariol uses this paper in one of
his courses in Argentina and was de-
lighted to speak to Dr. Adams directly.
Such is the stature of our Legget Medal
winners!!!
At the Board meeting, our past
President, Dr. Michel Aubertin, pre-
sented his proposal to start a
Mining
Geotechnique Committee
which was
accepted. This committee will bring to-
gether our members who have an inter-
est in this area.
Dr. Richard Bathurst
was unanimously accepted as our in-
coming President for the 2013-2014.
He also tabled a Membership Commit-
tee Task Force Report on increasing
membership in the CGS. This report
contains many good ideas and was
accepted by the Board. It is up to the
Executive Committee to decide which
of these ideas to initiate and when. The
proposal from the Regina group for the
2014 conference was accepted. Next
year, 2012, the conference is in Win-
nipeg, followed by Montreal in 2013.
A few of our Board members have
completed their mandates this year. We
thank them very much for their efforts:
Chris Hawkes, Dwayne Tannant,
Marcia MacLellan, Myint Win Bo,
Tae C. Kim, Robert P. Chapuis, Di-
dier Perret, Adrian Thompson, Jim
Graham,
and
Tim Keegan.
We also
thank very much the following retir-
ing Associate Editors of the Canadian
Geotechnical Journal:
Tarek Abdoun,
David Cruden, Fabrice Emeriault,
Hanping Hong, Andrew Whittle,
Bruno Bussière
, and
Josée Duchesne
.
In my message to the membership
at the AGM, I expressed concern about
the lack of a leader for the Geoenvi-
ronmental Division. Fortunately
Dr.
Myint Win Bo
of DST Consulting En-
gineers agreed to take on this task. We
thank him and ask that each member
consider where they want to put their
efforts in our society. We encourage
younger people to step into key roles
going forward.
The excellent reputation of the
Ca-
nadian Geotechnical Journal
contin-
ues under the Editor of the Journal, Ian
Moore. Ian Moore advised the Board
of Directors, that after a bit of a rocky
