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Geotechnical News • June 2012
CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
This brief article describes the activi-
ties of the Foundation, and provides
details about how you can contribute
to this effort and help the Foundation
strengthen our national heritage as a
bastion of innovative geotechnique.
What does the Foundation do?
While the Foundation and the CGS
share many goals, the Foundation
functions at arm’s length from the
CGS. Annually the Foundation pro-
vides the funding for the RF Legget
Medal (the highest CGS honour), and
its funding supports the RM Quig-
ley Award (for the best paper in the
Canadian Geotechnical Journal), and
AG Stermac Awards, and the various
CGS awards that honour the excel-
lence of the contributions in different
specialties in various geotechnical
disciplines. In addition, the Founda-
tion takes great pleasure in financially
supporting the annual CGS under-
graduate and graduate student awards,
and providing travel support for two
younger CGS members to attend the
International Young Geotechnical
Engineer’s conference held every four
years.
In 2007, the Foundation established
the National Graduate Scholarship,
its flagship student award, to support
an outstanding graduate student who
demonstrates academic excellence and
active participation in the geotechnical
community. This scholarship, valued
at $5000, is provided from a dedicated
fund in the Foundation’s budget, and
donations are specifically earmarked
for this scholarship.
The Foundation also provides the
financial support to the annual CGS
Geotechnical Colloquium, a presenta-
tion by a younger geo-professional
selected by the Geotechnical Research
Board. The Foundation provides travel
support to the CGS’s Cross Canada
Lecture Tours (CCLT) to bring Cana-
dian (Spring CCLT) and international
(Fall CCLT) specialists to the geo-
professionals in various cities across
the country.
How does the Foundation
support its activities?
The Foundation relies on donations
from individuals and corporations to
support its activities. The CCLTs are
supported exclusively by generous
corporate sponsors. Funds raised from
individual CGS members and other
local geotechnical groups are used
to support the awards, prizes and the
National Graduate Scholarship. The
Foundation has instituted two spe-
cial recognitions in recent years: the
Legacy Donor Program recognizes
significant individual donations, and
the Legacy Corporate Sponsor Pro-
gram acknowledges generous corpo-
rate support.
How can you contribute?
The Foundation strongly encourages
all geo-professionals, especially CGS
members, to support its activities
by making an annual contribution.
By doing so, you will help promote
geotechnique across the country and
provide assistance to the future leaders
of our profession. The Foundation also
accepts interest-free loans from local
geotechnical groups. If you are an
individual, a local geotechnical group
or a corporation and wish to make
a donation or a loan to support the
Foundation’s activities please visit the
Foundation’s website at
ca for contact details of our President
Doug VanDine or Treasurer David
Harding.
CGS members can easily contribute to
the Foundation when they renew their
annual membership on the CGS web-
site. All contributions, big and small,
are appreciated very much and will go
toward further strengthening geotech-
nique in Canada. The Foundation is
a federally incorporated registered
charitable organization and all dona-
tions are tax deductible.
Editor
Phil Bruch, P.Eng.
Principal, Senior Geotechnical
Engineer
Golder Associates Ltd.
1721 – 8th Street East
Saskatoon, SK S7H 0T4
T: 306-665-7989, F: 306-665-3342,
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