VOTE in SPIE's Upcoming Election

The SPIE 2009 election for officers and board directors will be held from June 1 to July 22.  SPIE members who are eligible to vote will receive an e-mail message from SPIE with instructions on the electronic voting process. 

At SPIE, members vote for one vice-presidential candidate.  The person elected will serve four consecutive years in each of the four different capacities that comprise the presidential chain:  vice-president, president-elect, president, and immediate past-president.

This year, SPIE has two excellent candidates for vice-president:  Christopher Progler, with Photonics, Inc., and our own Eustace Dereniak.  If you'd like to see a brief resume and a partial list of Eustace's many qualifications for the SPIE position, please visit his Web site at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/faculty/Resumes/Dereniak.htm 

Although there are currently no College of Optical Sciences faculty members or alumni in SPIE's presidential chain, OSC faculty members and alumni have a long tradition of service to SPIE,  At the  moment, the SPIE Board of Directors (completely separate from the presidential chain) includes two OSC faculty members, Jennifer Barton and Donis Flagello, and one alumnus, David Wick, OSC MS 1992 and PhD 1997, now with Sandia.  Tucson's optics community is further represented by Kathleen Perkins, formerly with Breault Research Corporation and now with OpticsReport, and there are quite a number of OSC faculty and alumni currently serving on SPIE Committees.   Over the years, OSC faculty and alumni have made it a priority to serve SPIE in leadership and governance capacities and we would like to keep this tradition alive by electing Eustace to SPIE's presidential chain.

So -- one more time -- SPIE will e-mail those eligible to vote with instructions on the electronic voting process.  You can vote any time between June 1 and July 22.   (Vote for Eustace☺)