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Geotechnical News • December 2012
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
presentation by
Mr. Fawzy Ezzein
,
Royal Military College, on the use of
transparent granular sand for geotech-
nical modelling.
Dr. Ed McRoberts
of AMEC was
awarded the
R. F. Legget Award
Medal,
the most prestigious award
in our society. His charming, movie
producing daughter from Los Angeles
accompanied him during the medal
ceremony.
Dr. McRoberts
received
the Legget Medal because of his
significant contributions to the fields
of oilsands geotechnique, liquefaction
assessments, and permafrost engineer-
ing. His address focused on judge-
ment in geotechnical engineering.
This is published in this same issue of
Geotechnical News and is well worth
reading.
I have thoroughly enjoyed represent-
ing the Canadian Geotechnical Society
as its President for the past two years.
I was ably assisted by my Execu-
tive Committee;
Mr. Peter Gaffran
,
VP Finance;
Dr. John Sobkowicz
,
VP Technical; and
Dr. Jean-Marie
Konrad
, VP Communications. Rep-
resenting the Divisions in 2012 were
Dr. Lukas Arenson
and the Sections,
Dr. Baolin Wang
. Behind the scenes
were the ever present
Dr. Vic Sowa
,
our Secretary General,
Ms. Lisa
McJunkin
and
Mr. Wayne Gibson
,
both of the Gibson Group.
The CGS is world class technical
organization that does many things
very well. If improvement is needed,
it is for more of our members to
nominate their fellow members for our
awards. See the list of distinguished
engineers in another part of the Geo-
technical News regarding who won
our major division and other awards
this year just to appreciate the depth of
talent in our Society. There are many
more deserving, talented people in our
CGS community.
And, finally,
Gordon McRostie
attended his 63rd conference this year
in his 90th year. He started attend-
ing conferences in 1947 and has only
missed two. If one of our young mem-
bers tries to break the record, they will
have to attend every conference until
the year 2074!
Le message du président
Plusieurs dossiers importants ont été
traités lors de la réunion du conseil
d’administration qui avait lieu la veille
de la 65e conférence canadienne de
géotechnique (CCG) à Winnipeg.
Tout d’abord, nous sommes heureux
d’annoncer que la ville de Québec
a été retenue comme hôte de la 68e
CCG en 2015. Ensuite, nous annon-
çons que les membres de la SCG qui
sont à l’Université Queen’s organise-
ron la 6e conférence sur les géorisques