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Geotechnical News • September 2014
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
CGS headquarters never sleeps. At
least that has been my impression as
your executive team moves into the
last four months of its mandate. Of
course, the efforts of our able Secre-
tary General,
Victor Sowa
, along with
Wayne Gibson
and
Lisa McJunkin
,
our CGS administrators, make it
all happen. Many activities remain
under the radar for CGS members.
For example, with the assistance of
President-elect
Doug VanDine
, the
next Secretary General of the Soci-
ety has now been selected. We will
introduce the new Secretary General
at the Business Meeting which is held
in conjunction with
GeoRegina 2014
.
We will also take the opportunity to
recognize the contributions of the cur-
rent Secretary General, Victor Sowa,
who will be stepping down in early
2015. I should also mention that the
Executive at our May spring meet-
ing proposed to change the title of
Secretary General to that of
Executive
Director
. A motion to this effect will
be presented to the membership at the
CGS Business Meeting which is held
at the beginning of
GeoRegina 2014
.
We believe that this title better reflects
the duties of this position and is con-
sistent with North American practice.
As part of the Executive Director
transition, the Executive has initiated a
plan towards a virtual CGS document
repository. Under this plan, all docu-
mentation will be stored in “the cloud”
and be available to all Executive mem-
bers to assist them with the execution
of their various duties. Similarly,
Richard J. Bathurst, President of
Canadian Geotechnical Society