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der-to-shoulder with the volunteers, like the ASA crew.
The Miami ASA crew arrived early Friday morning at the Abraham Villas, Habitat for Humanity site in Miami. This project included several clusters of one- and two-bedroom townhomes in various stages of completion. As direct- ed, the ASA crew members were armed with hammers, nail aprons–furnished by Serious Materials–and gloves as they were instructed to do. The crew was immediately put to work painting. So much for the hammers. The crew’s assigned task for the day was to apply two and in some places three coats of paint to all walls and ceilings of one of the townhomes. This unit and one other were scheduled for floor tile the next day and the painting had to be fin- ished before the tile could be installed. The ASA crew proved to be good painters, hard workers, and very pro- ductive. Not only did they finish their assigned townhome, they also finished another one when the volunteers who were supposed to paint the other town- home were misdirected to another Habitat project site. Without hesitation, the ASA crew jumped in and painted the second one too. Note that beautiful, skillful paint job on the walls (No, not on their clothes.) in the above photo.
The ASA crew with Irwin and John as Habitat for Humanity supervisors are pictured above, sans Kenric VanWyk
who left earlier to catch a plane and Dave Adams who was taking the photo.
The ASA crew consisted of: Dave Adams, D. L. Adams Associates, Inc.; Michael Canney, Applied Physics Laboratory, Univ. of Washington; Margaret Frisk, Accompanying per- son, Florida Atlantic University; Thomas Pellegrino, Advanced Resources Inc.; Joe and Ruth Perkell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mike Spencer, Lewis S. Goodfriend & Associates; Brandon Tinianov, Serious
Materials, Inc.; Kenric Van Wyk, Acoustics by Design; Jie Yang, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Thanks to each of you for your hard work and for representing the Acoustical Society of America in such a grand fashion. We’re proud of you and we’re proud of how you’ve shown once again that ASA members do have hearts. And, thank you Brandon for coordinating this event. Let’s do it again. It was great fun.--David Adams
USA Meetings Calendar
2008
18-22 May
24-28 June
26-30 October
157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
5th International Middle-Ear Mechanics in Research and Otology (MEMRO), Stanford University, Stanford, CA [http://memro 2009.stanford.edu].
158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, TX [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
2010
19-23 April
15-19 November
158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
2nd Pan-American/Iberian Conference on Acoustics (Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Mexican Institute of Acoustics, and Iberoamerican Federation on Acoustics), Cancun, Mexico [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
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