NEWSLETTER

March 31, 2012

Dear Member:

MEETING NOTES

The Section’s 37th annual meeting was held January 18-20, 2012 at The Crowne Plaza Irvine, 17941 Von Karman Ave, Irvine, CA.  This was the fourth time our meeting was held at this hotel – members commented that the hotel was a good choice for our meeting. All present declared the meeting was a resounding success. The business meeting was held Wednesday, January 18 – the minutes are attached for your perusal.

President Hank Muranko conducted the business meeting Wednesday afternoon. Hank opened the technical meeting Thursday morning, January 19, 2012 and after welcoming attendees and speakers, he introduced Bob Glenn, the Program Chairman who gave a brief overview of this year’s conference theme “New Frontiers in Industrial Hygiene.” Bob Wheeler, YPSW Past President, presided over the Thursday morning “Safety and Health Regulatory Trends” segment of the program.   Carolyn Phillips, a YPSW Director, presided over the Thursday morning “Industrial Hygiene Practice” segment.  Thursday afternoon was reserved for small group discussions or leisure activities.  Bob Glenn, YPSW President-Elect and Program Chairman, presided over the first segment of “Industrial Hygiene Practice – Fourth Wave: Ambient Exposures to Asbestos and Elongated Mineral Particles (EMPs) opening Friday morning’s session of the program.  Hank Muranko, YPSW President, presided over the next segment “Industrial Hygiene Practice – Fourth Wave: Ambient Exposures to Asbestos and Elongated Mineral Particles (EMPs)” and the Association Reports” segment.

Dr Frank Renshaw, a YPSW Director, presided over the Friday afternoon final part of the Industrial Hygiene Practice” segment. The Clayton Award was presented and YPSW officers were installed with the passing of the gavel from Hank Muranko to Bob Glenn. The meeting closed Friday evening with our banquet and entertainment by pianist Mr. J. Wingate Greathouse  An “open mike” encouraged members to make comments.  A toast was proposed by Bob Glenn to celebrate the 75th birthday of Doug Davis and he was was serenaded by attendees with “Happy Birthday”.

Bob provided the attached in-depth summary of the presentations which can also be found on the YPSW website.

Terry Thedell (Sempra Energy Utilities) provided audiovisual support (albeit late) for the meeting.

ABIH CERTIFICATION MAINTENANCE POINTS

We asked ABIH to review Bob’s program prior to the meeting and received ABIH approval of 1.5 CM points for full meeting attendance with 0.5 CM per half day. ABIH Approval Number: 11-3951, Nov 14, 2011.

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I received the following communication from Thursa La at AIHA, who received it from Tracy Parsons at ABIH “ABIH discontinues review of CM requests for Category 4 Education Events.”  Effective 11/28/11, ABIH will no longer review educational events for CM points.  This also means that ABIH will not be issuing any new CM approval numbers.  Instead, CIHs will be responsible to calculate their own CM point values and simply list them on the worksheets.  Additional information can be found at http://www.abih.org/documents/TerminationofCMPointsReviews.pdf.”

WEBSITE

Peter Bellin established and maintains our website www.ypswaiha.org.  Peter brings the site up to date by posting data as it is supplied to him - check out the 2012meeting data and photos we will send to him when this letter is mailed.  The site is specifically for our YPSW members.  Thanks, Peter for keeping the website up to date and providing this valuable service to the YPSW membership.

CLAYTON AWARD

The recipient of the 2012 YPSW George and Florence Clayton Award, Howard Kusnetz, was very appreciative of the Section's acknowledgement of his many years of notable achievements in the field of industrial hygiene.  Hank Muranko made the presentation and Howard’s gracious acceptance speech was greeted with a round of applause. The design of the Award is crystal pillars with a clock at the top and appropriately engraved with the YPSW emblem and appropriate sentiments. When received, acceptance photos will be posted on our website along with a short bio on Howard.

CHANGE OF YPSW OFFICERS

As a result of the election on January 18 the 2012 Executive Committee consists of:

President:                    Bob Glenn                                                       Directors:

President-Elect:           Frank Hearl                                                     Pat Brogan

Past-President:                        Hank Muranko                                                Anna Davis

Secretary-Treasurer:    Douglas Davis                                                 Frank Renshaw

Sincere thanks to Bob Wheeler, who served two years as a Director, one year as President-Elect, another as President and the last year as Past-President, for his expert guidance and valuable contributions. A certificate signed by President Muranko, is to be sent to Bob for his service.

2012 DUES PAYMENT

Please pay your 2012 dues promptly.  Your cooperation will enable us to prepare the 2012-2013 membership book for mailing in June along with information pertinent to the 2013 meeting.  Please check your current listing in the 2011-2012 membership book (including updates in subsequent newsletters) and make necessary changes on the dues form. Lifetime Members, please note your special form. If you are a lifetime member or paid your dues in advance we still need your completed form for file and verification of membership book information – if you are in either of these categories, you can send this info via email, fax or snail mail.

Please note additional information requested on the dues form – AHIA member status; your credentials - CIH, CSP, PE, etc. Also indicate on the membership form if you are an "AIHA Fellow", for listing in the membership book.  If you are not a Fellow and feel you are qualified, download the forms and instructions from the AIHA website and send completed forms to me for review by the YPSW Executive Committee and submission to AIHA.

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MEMBERSHIP CHANGES and NEWS

Welcome New Members:

Kelly Bailey, Vulcan Materials Co

D Wayne Berman, Aeolus Inc

Stephen Hemperly, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc

Elizabeth Pullen, Clariant Corp

Peter O’Neil, AIHA

Sylvia Shattuck, Sempra Energy

Aaron Trippler, AIHA

Tom Zdeb, URS Corp

(Complete contact information will be published in the 2012-2013 membership book)

Membership Book Changes:

Robert Bacci, 164 Springside Rd, Walnut Creek, CA 94597-3425 (no change in phone or Email)

Ed and Grace Baier, 5955 Quinn Orchard Rd Unit 108, Frederick, MD 21704-6672 (unknown if phone number changed)

Dwight Culver, MD, 3024 Bern Drive, Email: [email-masked] (no other changes)

Bob Glenn, Email: [email-masked] (no other change)

Frank Hearl, Email: [email-masked] (no other changes)

Add: Renee A Krebs, 1014 Bishop Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230 (phone, fax and Email same as Bill Krebs)

Member News

Wedding Bells: Bill and Renee (Avilla) Krebs tied the knot in a private ceremony at the Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach CA in early March.  Sincere congratulations to the happy couple for a long life of wedded bliss.

MISCELLANEOUS

·        As of March 5, 2012, AIHA headquarters relocated to 3141 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 777, Falls Church, VA 22042.  Email addresses and office telephone numbers remain the same.

·        Sincere thanks to Stephen Davis and his company LaCroix Davis, LLC for paying for the banquet wine; this is a very generous gesture and helped the Section make a profit on the meeting.

·        Thanks to Bob Glenn for presenting an outstanding program and providing the excellent technical program write up for publication as an attachment to this newsletter.

·        Messages from members who could not attend the 2011 meeting are included as an attachment.

·        Many thanks to Bill Krebs for providing a vast amount of pictures on a CD  - we had print copies made for the album and will send the CD to Peter Bellin to post on the website.

Following the meeting, thank you letters were sent to each speaker; the required Roster of New Section Officers was submitted to AIHA.

Our deep appreciation to attendees for their acknowledgement and thanks in our handling of the logistic and administrative details for the meeting. Our thanks to Hank and many other members for your kind comments at the banquet.

The Crowne Plaza Irvine was a great choice for our meeting.  The facilities and food were excellent.

Anna’s hotel contact personnel were very helpful, courteous and constantly checked with her to be certain all was proceeding as scheduled and to our satisfaction. We will keep this hotel on our list of sites for future meetings.  Note: Returning to a hotel and working with past contacts is valuable when negotiating for future meetings.

The hospitality suite served our purposes very well and comments by participants assured us everyone was extremely pleased with the upgraded refreshments provided; let us know if you have any suggestions for additions to the fare we currently provide in the hospitality suite.

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A final reminder – please return your dues forms (and checks, if applicable) remember to list your credentials, CIH, CSP, PE, Fellow, etc., for inclusion in the new membership book.

My bladder cancer has reached Stage 3 – through the bladder wall – I completed 6 weeks of chemo and 28 days of radiation, but the specialists say no surgery can be done because of my other health issues.  Anna and I are working on our “bucket list” and plan to travel and enjoy ourselves as much as possible for as long as we can.

Thanks to all YPSW members for "keeping the faith" and making YPSW a continuing success.  Member input and cooperation keeps “Your Section” alive and flourishing.  Pictures you may have taken at the meeting will be appreciated for the album and posting on our website; information about your travels or any other subject that would be of interest to your fellow members is always welcome for publication in the newsletter.

Have an enjoyable summer. Anna and I look forward to seeing you at the 2013 meeting.

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Douglas J. Davis

Secretary-Treasurer

Enclosures:

2012 Technical Meeting Summary

2011 Meeting Regrets

Annual Financial Statement

2012 Business Meeting Minutes

2012 Dues Notice

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YUMA PACIFIC – SOUTHWEST SECTION

January 18, 2012

Business Meeting

Catalina Room, Holiday The Crowne Plaza Irvine

YPSW Section, AIHA

4 P.M.

MINUTES

President Hank Muranko called the business meeting to order at 4:05 P.M. on January 18, 2012 at The Crowne Plaza Irvine, 17941 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, CA.

The agenda was distributed to those individuals present.  A count of members established that a quorum (20%) was indeed present.

The minutes of the 2011 business meeting were printed on the back of the agenda and, therefore, not read aloud.  A motion to approve the minutes was made, seconded and unanimously carried by the membership.

Secretary-Treasurer reported: Financial Status:  The savings account as of December 31, 2011 was $10,591.55; as of today, the checking account balance is $8,272.76 (combined total $18,563.81.)  Some attendees indicated they would register and pay “at the door.” All hotel expenses for room setup, speaker phone, audio visual equipment, breaks, lunches, banquet, banquet entertainment, hospitality room supplies, reproduction costs, etc., (approximately $8,000.00 to $10,000.00) remain to be paid at the conclusion of the meeting.  The $1,000.00 hotel good faith deposit will be applied.  Costs continued to increase throughout the year for administrative supplies, document reproduction and postage. The section award was again purchased in Orange County, utilizing the 2010 new design - appropriately engraved, and the price was excellent. A full report of expenses will be itemized in the annual Financial Statement included with the current membership newsletter published after the meeting.

Required reports submitted by Secretary-Treasurer and accepted throughout the year 2011:

Local Section Officers to AIHA

Annual Group Exemption to AIHA

New IRS postcard filing requirement established for non-profits with annual revenues less than $25,000; YPSW tax reporting year is February 1- January 31 annually.

Meeting Planning Highlights: The Executive Committee met via email conferences throughout the year.  Anna Davis contacted several hotels for the 2012 meeting in San Diego and Orange County.  She negotiated the best room price with The Crowne Plaza Irvine, an initial good faith deposit of $500.00 was made.  Anna is in the process of contacting hotels in San Diego and Orange County (beachfront) and reports 2013 prices are in the area of $200.00 per night, plus taxes, but she will try to negotiate the price of $175.00 agreed upon at this meeting.

Candidates were nominated for the section award and Executive Committee positions.

Program:  President Elect Bob Glenn developed an outstanding program and arranged an excellent slate of speakers.  Prior to the meeting we provided ABIH a copy of the program and secured approval for Certification Maintenance points for attendance at the meeting – 0.5 per half day of attendance.

Bob provided Secretary Davis with the complete names and addresses of speakers; routine confirmation letters were sent to each speaker along with preliminary program and hotel information.

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Terry Thedell provided the needed audiovisual equipment for the meeting.  Terry arrived late so we had to pay for the audio-visual equipment provided earlier by the hotel (see financial statement).

Conference Details: Program Chairman Bob Glenn presented an overview of the program for the next two days.

Stephen Hemperly presented the Pacific Region Local Section Representative’s Report on general matters related to his role as regional representative and the recent AIHA Memorandum of Under-standing (MOU).  A lively discussion ensued as we are not the typical local section, our members come from all over the United /states and foreign countries. Florence Kusnetz suggested we call ourselves a “non-local section”.

Election of Officers was next on the agenda with the offices of President-Elect and one Director to be filled. The Executive Committee’s nominations of Frank Hearl for President-Elect and Pat Brogan for Director were presented and nominations opened to the floor.  No additional nominations were forthcoming; a motion for approval of the nominated slate was made with unanimous approval by acclamation.  2012 Officers are as follows:

President                     Robert Glenn

President Elect            Frank Hearl

Past President             Hank Muranko

Secretary-Treasurer     Douglas Davis

Director                       Pat Brogan

Director                       Anna Davis

Director                       Frank Renshaw

Proposed site for 2013 annual meeting:

To be determined – either San Diego or Orange County, CA –meeting will be held as usual 23-25 Jan 2013, during the MLK week.

Doug and Anna will negotiate as usual for the best rates, etc., for several venues.

Members unable to attend the meeting sent regrets; their notes were made available for reading in the meeting room and hospitality suite.   Cards for several YPSW “shut-in” members were made available in the meeting room for attendees to sign – Anna will mail the cards at the conclusion of the meeting.

All agenda items were approved, seconded and unanimously carried by the membership.

President Muranko asked for adjournment if there were no further items for discussion.  Motion was made, seconded and carried.  Adjournment at 5:30 PM.

Recorded by:  _____________________________

Douglas J. Davis

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

February 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012

YUMA PACIFIC SOUTHWEST SECTION, AIHA

Checking Account Balance February 1, 2010                                                                      $1023.21

INCOME:

Dues:   Life Membership                                     $100.00

Annual Membership                                   160.00                           260.00

Correction to last Financial Statement                                                                                      1.00

2011 Late Registration                                                                                                        205.00

Transfer from Savings Account to Checking Account Dec 30. 2011                                     1000.00

$2489.21

CONFERENCE FINANCES

Income

2012 Registrations                       $ 10,605.00

2012 Registration Refunds                 (  23.00)

Total Conference Income                                                 $10,582.00

Expenses (2012):

Hotel Food                               $8745.53*

Audio-Visual Rentals                     808.13

Long Distance/Speaker Phone         64.16

Wine                                             796.49**

Hospitality Room Supplies            587.09

Entertainment – Pianist                  300.00

Total Conference Expenses:                                          $11,301.40

Income from meeting                                                                                             (719.40)***

1769.81

EXPENSES

Postal Expenses                       $225.96

Badges for Visitors                       85.11

Printing                                      537.80

Web Hosting for 1 year                  95.76

Award for Howard Kusnetz             75.37

Cards to members                         31.37

Total Expenses:                            1051.37

Checking Account Balance                   $   718.44                                                     718.44

Savings Account (Dec 31, 2011)                     $ 9,591.55

Net Worth                                          $10,309.99      on January 31, 2012

*Recap Hotel Expenses:

2729.96            Continental Breakfast, AM/PM breaks and lunch for attendees on Jan 19

2989.95            Continental Breakfast, AM/PM breaks and lunch for attendees on Jan 20

3025.62            Banquet entrees for attendees on Jan 20

**796.49           Wine for banquet Jan 21 (Reimbursed by Steve Davis) *** (deposited Feb 10, 2012 – conference

deficit now changes to profit of $77.09)

Meeting Room and Hospitality Room Rental (Jan 18-20) Complimentary

Pending Expenses: Reproduction, postage, envelopes, labels, etc for Mar 2012 membership letter; dues requests;

postage to send cards signed by attendees to members; shipping award to Howard

SUMMARY OF JANUARY 18-20, 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Yuma Pacific SouthWest Section, AIHA

(Provided by Bob Glenn, Program Chairman)