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From the President
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To finish up, I would like to tell you about a change in ad- ministrative structure for the ASA (Figure 1). Several years ago, two administrative councils, Internal Affairs and Exter- nal Affairs, were put in place to streamline the reporting of committees to the Executive Council. Committees would report to one or the other of these councils; the chairs of these councils, each a member of Executive Council, would consolidate the reports and present a concise summary to Executive Council. This arrangement liberated time in the crowded Executive Council agenda. In Jacksonville, the Ex- ecutive Council approved the addition of a third council, the Administrative Council on Publications and Standards, to consolidate the reporting of committees associated with ASA publishing and standards (e.g., Publication Policy and ASACOS, respectively). In Salt Lake City, this was taken one step further, adding a fourth council, the Administrative Council on Finances, to consolidate the reporting of com- mittees associated with ASA finances (Acoustical Society Foundation Board, Investments, and the new Finance Com- mittee). The load on the original two administrative councils has been reduced, and they have been renamed Outreach and Member Engagement and Diversity. The observant reader will note that these four councils match up with the four goals of the Strategic Plan. We now have administrative councils on Outreach, on Member Engagement and Diversi- ty, on Publications and Standards, and on Financial Affairs. The organizational chart (Figure 1) shows the committee structure of the ASA.
From the Editor
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ASA is by Tom Muir and Dave Bradley on the history of underwater acoustics. The article is based on several special sessions at an ASA meeting and builds on the presentations of many of the participants. In writing the article, Tom and Dave discovered that the material was so extensive that they decided to focus on the early history of the field up through World War II. We hope to have an article on more recent history in a future issue of AT.
I solicited the fifth article in this issue from reading my favorite publication (other than AT), The New York Times. The article in the Times (see http://goo.gl/7P4Ta8) was about quieting residences and focused on the work of Bon- nie Schnitta. I quickly discovered that Bonnie is an active member of ASA. I contacted her and by the next day, she had agreed to write for AT. I find this article particularly provocative because it deals with our homes and better liv- ing. Indeed, I can imagine that were we looking for a new home now, we might take Bonnie’s article along with us and examine a potential residence in ways we’d not thought about before.
I hope that ASA (and other) readers enjoy these articles and I look forward to suggestions for future articles.
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