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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Hazzard
has agreed to serve as the
Representative for the Technical Divi-
sions. Jim is a Senior Engineer with
Itasca Consulting Group in Toronto.
He takes over from Dr. Lukas Aren-
son.
Dr. Paul Dittrich
is the incoming
Local Sections Representative and
takes over from Mr. Baolin Wang.
Paul is Senior Geotechnical Engineer
and Principal with Golder Associates
in Mississauga. Finally, I am pleased
to announce that
Dr. Jean Côté
at the
Université Laval has agreed to serve
as interim chair of the CGS Geotech-
nical Research Board for a one-year
period.
The Society continues to be well
served by our Secretary-General,
Dr.
Victor Sowa
and in day-to-day admin-
istrative duties by
Mr. Wayne Gibson
and
Ms. Lisa McJunkin
of the Gib-
son Group. Victor has advised me that
he intends to retire at the end of 2014
and thus one important task of the new
executive will be to find a suitable
successor and arrange for a transition
period in the last half of 2014.
One of the first tasks of the Executive
Committee was indeed a pleasur-
able one. The Executive Committee
voted to accept the additional funding
offered by
The Canadian Founda-
tion for Geotechnique
Trustees to
increase the annual financial award
component of the Canadian Geotech-
nical Society (CGS) Student Awards
for Graduate and Undergraduate
Students from a total of $3,750 for all
awards to $6,000.
I am delighted to report that the
French translation of the
4th Edi-
tion of the Canadian Foundation
Engineering Manual (CFEM)
is now
complete. We look forward to having
this document available in print in
2013. It follows that the CGS execu-
tive will have on its next agenda a
discussion regarding how to proceed
with updating the technical content
of the CFEM and equally important,
what format will be adopted.
I should like to remind you that the
66
th
Canadian Geotechnical Soci-
ety (CGS) Annual Conference
will
be held in Montreal, on September
29-October 3, 2013, in collaboration
with the International Association of
Hydrogeologists (IAH-CNC) and the
North American Geosynthetics Soci-
ety (NAGS). This conference prom-
ises to be the largest CGS conference
to date, thanks to the many efforts of
the organizing committee under the
leadership of
Mr. Mario Ruel
and
Mr. Sylvain Roy
.
Message du président
Je suis ravi d’avoir l’occasion de
transmettre à nos membres mon pre-
mier message à titre de président de la
Société canadienne de géotechnique