Geotechnical News • June 2016
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
the honoraria for two Graduate Stu-
dent Presentation Awards and four
Undergraduate Student Report Awards
(for individual and group submissions)
to a total of $3,750. In 2005 the Foun-
dation contributed, for the first time,
$1,000 to support two CGS members
to participate in
Young Geotechnical
Engineers Conferences
. This amount
currently stands at $4,000 and the
Foundation is preparing to support two
young members to attend the 2017
Conference in Seoul, Korea.
Over the past several years, the
Foundation has received generous
and excellent support from corporate
sponsors to provide travel costs for the
Cross Canada Lecture Tours. In 2005,
the Foundation established a Cross
Canada Lecture Tour Reserve Fund to
manage and report on activities related
to fund raising revenues and expen-
ditures for the Cross Canada Lecture
Tour. The Reserve Fund was “capped”
at $20,000, and any additional
amounts are allocated to support the
general activities of the Foundation.
The Foundation has also received
loans or donations from some of the
Local Sections of the CGS and the
Local Organizing Committees of the
annual CGS Conferences.
In 2007, the Foundation launched its
CFG-FCG Website
and established the Canadian Founda-
tion for Geotechnique
National Grad-
uate Scholarship
. This scholarship,
with a value of $5,000, is awarded
annually to a deserving student enter-
ing into, or continuing in, a Masters or
PhD program at a Canadian University
in any identified field of geotech-
nique. Also in 2007, the Foundation
increased the honorarium associated
with the Canadian Geotechnical Collo-
quium to $5,000.
In April of 2014, the National Gradu-
ate Scholarship was renamed as the
Michael Bozozuk National Graduate
Scholarship
to honour and to recog-
nize the 43 years of service, dedication
and passion that Dr.
Michael Bozozuk
provided to the Foundation, and to the
overall geotechnical community in
Canada. The inaugural presentation of
this scholarship was made in October
2014 at the annual CGS Conference in
Regina, SK.
In the fall of 2008, the Foundation
established a
Legacy Donor
pro-
gram to honour individuals who have
donated, or who donate, more than
$25,000 to the Foundation. To date
our Legacy Donors are Dr.
Jack Mol-
lard
, Mr.
Charlie Ripley
and Dr.
Ben
Torchinsky
.
In the spring of 2011, the Founda-
tion established a
Legacy Corporate
Sponsor
program similar to the
Legacy Donor program. The Legacy
Corporate Sponsor program honours
those corporations that have contrib-
uted $30,000 or more to the Founda-
tion to fund the Cross Canada Lecture
Tours. Currently, Legacy Corporate
Sponsors are
AMEC Environment
and Infrastructure
,
Stantec/Jacques
Whitford
,
Reinforced Earth (Can-
ada)
,
Tetra Tech EBA
,
BGC Engi-
neering
and
Golder Associates Ltd.
The photo below shows the four
presidents of the Foundation from its
inception in 2000. A number of other
individuals have served in various
positions of the Foundation’s Board of
Directors, including Ms.
E.S. Partsis
,
Mr.
M. Bleakney
, Mr.
D. Harding
,
Mr.
H. Baker
, and Dr.
R. Benson
.
The current Board of Directors con-
sists of
Dennis Becker
(President),
Kevin Biggar
(Vice-President),
Harry Oussoren
(Treasurer),
Sai
Vanapalli
(Secretary), and
Heinrich
Heinz
and
Ryan Phillips
as Members
at Large. Other Members (formerly
Trustees) include
Robert Chapuis
,
Jean Hutchinson
,
Suzanne Lacasse
Høeg
,
Jorn Landva
,
Bob Patrick
,
Lynden Penner
,
Siva Sivathayalan
,
Brian Taylor
,
Jean-Pierre Tournier
,
and
Gerry Webb
.
Acknowledgements
The Foundation is deeply grate-
ful to the individuals, organizations
and corporations associated with the
Canadian geotechnical community
for their generous support, which in
turn promotes excellence in Canadian
geotechnique. To learn more about the
Foundation and how you can contrib-
ute, please visit our website
This is the second article of a two-part
series based on an article prepared by
Dr. Michael Bozozuk and originally
published in Geotechnical News in
December, 2007. The original article
was edited by Drs. Heinrich Heinz
and Dennis Becker to fit CGS News
publication requirements.
Editor
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City of Edmonton
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Presidents of the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique: Dr. M. Bozozuk
(2000–2004), Dr. K.T.Law (2004-2008), Mr. D.VanDine (2008-2013), Dr. D.
Becker (2014-Present).
