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Geotechnical News • June 2012
CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
Each year the CGS Executive Com-
mittee holds two face-to-face meetings
and two teleconference meetings. Our
first face-to-face Executive Commit-
tee meeting of the year was held in
Montreal on May 5. We did this to get
an update on the French translation of
the
Canadian Foundation Engineer-
ing Manual,
4th Edition (CFEM 4) but
also other matters were considered by
the Executive Committee. In addi-
tion, holding the meeting in Montreal
allowed us to get a sneak preview of
the venue for the 2013 CGS Annual
Conference at the Montreal Hilton
Bonaventure. Of course, the 65th
Canadian Geotechnical Conference
will be held at the Fairmont Hotel
located in downtown Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada from September
30 to October 3, 2012. This promises
to be a successful conference; the
trade show is sold out and they have
nine Platinum sponsors! I went to the
1978 CGC in Winnipeg with a group
of graduate students in a truck from
the University of Alberta geotechnical
graduate school. This time I will be
flying to Winnipeg.
As I enter the second year of my
tenure as President of your Society, I
am impressed by the diligence of your
Secretary-General,
Dr. Victor Sowa
,
and Administrator,
Wayne Gibson
in
their handling of the day to day affairs
of the Society. A Society as estab-
lished as the CGS has relationships
with multiple stakeholders beyond its
most important relationship, its mem-
bers. Our administrative personnel
constantly interact with other Cana-
dian national engineering societies,
international societies, and govern-
ment agencies. In the fall of last year,
Bryan Watts, President of Canadian
Geotechnical Society.
