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Geotechnical News • March 2014
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
As you read this article, I and your
CGS Executive team will be well into
our second year of our two-year terms.
The time has gone quickly and along
with our very busy Secretary General
(
Victor Sowa
), we have been active
on a number of fronts.
The first important task in 2014 was to
appoint new chairs for our Technical
Divisions and Committees, and new
Section Directors to replace the outgo-
ing chairs and directors who have
completed their three-year terms. As a
matter of policy, the Society attempts
to limit these persons to a single
three-year term and to avoid reap-
pointments. This allows as many CGS
members as possible an opportunity to
participate in CGS leadership roles. To
ensure that this policy is implemented,
it is very important that each group
develop a succession plan with a des-
ignated leader-elect well in advance of
each end of term.
I am pleased to announce the new
representatives of the Technical Divi-
sions and Sections on the Executive
Committee for 2014 are
Myint Win
Bo
and
Paul Dittrich
, respectively.
The new Division Chairs are
Baolin
Wang
(Cold Regions Geotechnology),
Richard Brachman
(Geosynthet-
ics),
Tai Wong
(Groundwater) and
Alex Baumgard
(Soil Mechanics and
Foundations). The new Section Direc-
tors are
Seán Mac Eoin
(Edmonton),
Harpreet Panesar
(Regina),
Rashid
Bashir
(Saskatoon),
Kendall Thies-
sen
(Winnipeg),
Nicholas Vlachopou-
los
(Kingston),
Sarah Poot
(Sudbury),
Richard J. Bathurst, President of
Canadian Geotechnical Society