NEWSLETTER

September 23, 2012

Dear Member:

MEMBERSHIP BOOK

Enclosed with this letter is your 2012-2013 Membership Book.

YPSW members are located throughout the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom.   Current member-ship by location is as follows: 28 in California, 16 in Texas, 8 in Michigan, 6 in Ohio, 5 in Georgia, 4 each in Maryland,  Pennsylvania and Virginia, 3 each in Hawaii and Utah, 2 each in Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, New Mexico and Tennessee, 1 each in Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mexico and the United Kingdom.  Our unique section has 105 members (62 Life, 1 Honorary and 42 Annual).

Please check the 2012-2013 Membership Book carefully for changes in mailing addresses, emails, telephone, cell and fax numbers (there are many changes).  If your personal listing is incorrect (or changes at anytime throughout the year) please notify me by email, telephone, fax or "snail" mail as soon as possible to enable us have a current roster at all times. If you did not return an updated membership/dues form, your data from last year was used.

Five members have not yet paid their 2012 dues, a reminder to these individuals is included with this mailing; if dues are not paid within 60 days their membership will be terminated.

JANUARY 2013 ANNUAL MEETING INFORMATION

The 2013 annual meeting will be held at The Bahia Resort Hotel, 998 West Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, CA 92109. A contract was signed, the required deposit of $3,500,00 was made and a block of twenty-five (25) rooms was secured. The meeting will be held Wednesday, January 23 through Friday, January 25, 2013 (i.e., the week of the Martin Luther King holiday).

Daily room rates negotiated for single or double are:

$139.00 plus 12.5% occupancy tax ($17.38) = $156.38 per night (this does not include breakfast).  The group rate will be honored for three days pre and three days post conference stays.

Complimentary Parking

Breakfast, breaks, lunch for Thursday and Friday, and the banquet will be discussed in the next newsletter after negotiating those costs with the hotel.  If possible we will include these costs in the conference registration fee(s).

All rooms offer coffee makers, hair dryers, iron/ironing board, voice mail.

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Unlimited High-Speed Wired or Wireless Internet access in the Guestrooms

Wireless access in public spaces, including the “Beach”

Complimentary Business Center

Access to Pool Side Fitness Center.

The hotel does not offer shuttle service; they provided information on Airport Transportation which can be found on page 6 of this letter.

Close to Sea World and the San Diego Zoo.

Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible so, if needed, we can request additional rooms at the group rate.  To make room reservations call The Bahia Resort Hotel at (800)-576-4229 or (858) 488-0551 (Hotel Operator).. Whichever number you use you must identify yourself as part of the YPSW-AIHA group attending the Jan 23-25, 2013 meeting to receive the special negotiated rate and have the reservation counted in the YPSW-AIHA room block. The hotel will also accept pre and post extensions of stay at the group rate in a limited capacity; check on availability when making your hotel reservations.  An advance deposit or credit card guarantee for the first night’s room and tax are required for our group negotiated rates by December 24, 2012; after that date rooms will be on a space and rate availability basis. (Individual reservations will automatically be billed for one night unless cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival.)  NOTE:  Check in time is 4:00 PM, if rooms are ready earlier, you will be accommodated.

Executive Committee news:

The Secretary-Treasurer submitted the required annual reports to AIHA and IRS

The 38th annual meeting will be January 23-25, 2013 at The Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego (I personally appreciate and thank the Executive Committee for “stepping in” [while I was dealing with Doug’s final days] and securing the hotel for the meeting.)

The conference theme is “In the IH Toolbox: Risk Assessment”.

Nominations by the Executive Committee for officer positions to be filled in 2013: Del Malzahn for President-Elect and Steve Davis for a Director – both individuals agreed to be nominated.  Election will be held during the January 23, 2013 business meeting

Unanimous agreement in selection of Bob Wheeler for the 2013 Clayton Award.

Remember, ABIH grants 1.5 Certification Maintenance (CM) Points for attendance (0.5 IH CM point per 0.5 day). ABIH will no longer review programs for CM Points.  This means ABIH  will not be issuing any new CM approval numbers; instead CIHs will be responsible to calculate their own CM point values and list them on the worksheets.  For more info visit: http://abih.org/documents/Termination of CM PointsReviews.pdf.

Program Chairman, President-Elect Frank Hearl developed an outstanding program with the theme “In the IH Toolbox: Risk Assessment”. This is a well planned program that promises to be very interesting and educational -  sure to be well received. Chairman Hearl provided the following advance information on his program:

“The program for the 38th Annual Meeting of the Yuma Pacific-Southwest Section will follow-on the theme from the 2012 “Synergist” series, “A New Era for Risk Assessment.”  The program will headline presentations by Dr. Adam Finkel, who served on the National Academies “Silver Book” Committee producing their latest thinking on risk assessment in “Science and Decisions;” and Fred Boelter who has championed risk assessment for industrial hygiene and has coordinated previous seminars and workshops on the topic for PCIH meetings.  Following presentations by national experts and AIHA’s Risk Assessment Committee’s leaders we will lead an interesting round-table discussion on risk assessment and its future use for IH to close out the first day’s program.

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On the second day of the meeting we will explore the hot topic of Bayesian Analysis and its use in IH decision making.  Combined with the opening program on risk assessment, this should provide a very interesting learning experience.

Dr John Howard, NIOSH Director, will be on hand to provide an update of NIOSH activities and share his thoughts on risk assessment and the future of the profession; and the Deputy Assistant Secretary and 2012 recipient of the prestigious William Steiger Memorial Award, Richard Fairfax, will give an update of OSHA’s recent activities.  In addition, the elected leaders of the AIHA, ACGIH; the AIHA’s Director of Government Affairs, and the AIHA Executive Director will present updates and outlooks for our professional organizations.”

The final program will be put into our regular format listing presentation titles/speakers after Frank confirms all speakers; then, along with the program you will receive the registration information (we must negotiate meal prices with the hotel – it is the cost of food that determines registration fees). Look for the finalized program in late October/early November (after I come back from Wash DC) or contact Anna Davis [[email-masked]].”

MISCELLANEOUS

George Cvejanovich wrote that he got a new pacemaker on 3/23 and he is feeling fine.

Jack Peterson wrote: Cec and I stay much the same except for one thing.  She seems to keep getting better!  I suspect that this is caused by still healing from the operation that removed her salivary gland cancer almost two years ago.  The hospice experts seem to believe that the cancer did a little more spreading than the surgeon thought and that she is still afflicted with a remnant somewhere that she and I are unaware of.  But she has no untoward aches or pains and no lumps.  She does a lot of sleeping but when she's awake she's her old self--sassy as ever.  She is invariably polite to the staff, never gets mad for any reason and has essentially no short-term memory except that she still knows me and that I'm her husband of almost 60 years--no, she doesn't remember that it has been 60 years in three days but who cares about a little thing like that?  Her 84th birthday was celebrated by the hospice staff--they showed up with a HAPPY BIRTHDAY balloon, some flowers and a piece of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.  Cec was able to eat several bites of the cake.  They may do something for our anniversary, too.
I don't change much except with my poor circulation in the pelvic area walking gets just a bit harder (that is, more painful) each year. I hope the weather is nice in D.C. on Oct. 25th and that all goes well for you, Anna.

In our last newsletter we failed to thank Carolyn Phillips for her three years of stewardship as a Director.  She will receive a certificate recognizing her service.

WEBSITE

Thanks to Peter Bellin for his continuing dedication in maintaining our website: www.ypswaiha.org.

REMINDER:  Make your hotel reservations as soon as possible, if needed, we will request additional rooms at the group rate.  Call The Bahia Resort Hotel at (800)-576-4229 or (858) 488-0551 (Hotel Operator).. Whichever number you use you must identify yourself as part of the YPSW-AIHA group attending the Jan 23-25, 2013 meeting to receive the special negotiated rate and have the reservation counted in the YPSW-AIHA room block. The cut-off date for our group reservations at the $139.00 rate is December 24, 2012; after that date rooms will be at the prevailing rate depending upon space availability.

NOTE: Please see page 6 of this letter for Airport Transportation from and to San Diego International Airport.

Three of our lifetime members passed away recently; their obituaries are on he next page

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OBITUARIES

Florence Clayton, 95, of Peru, IL passed away at 2:04 PM, May 24, 2012, in Liberty Village, Peru.  Funeral mass will be held at 10 AM Tuesday in St Hyacinth Church, La Salle.  Burial will be at St Hyacinth Cemetery.  Visitation will be 9-10 AM Tuesday in the church.  She was born June 16, 1916 to Ladislaus and Rose (Krueger) Szydlowski.  She married George D. Clayton on May 14, 1947 in Wash DC.  She graduated from Hyacinth grade school and La Salle-Peru Township High School.  She taught in Toluca grade school then went to work in Chicago before joining the U.S. Marines, where she was promoted to the rank of Captain.  She and her husband formed their own business, Clayton Industrial Hygiene, with offices across the country.  Together they wrote and published many volumes of books called “Patty’s Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology”.  She retired and lived in Oceanside, CA where she operated an avocado grove.  She later moved back to IL where she bought a house in Liberty Village and then moved into the Manor Court section.  Survivors include a nephew, George (Carol) Renkosik of Peru; and great-nieces and great-nephews, Doug, Kathy and Nicholas Renkosik and Debi Woods.  She was preceded in death by her husband in 2000 and two sisters, Clara Renkosik and Eleanor Pelszynski.” (Obituary provided by George Renkosik).  NOTE: The Claytons, along with other IH pioneers, were founders of YPSW in 1975. Florence served as Secretary-Treasurer 1975-1988.

The following article appeared in the 9/12 edition of the Synergist:

“In Memoriam: Florence Clayton.  Florence Clayton of Peru, IL passed away on May 24, 2012. She and her husband, George Clayton, were instrumental in shaping AIHA.  The Claytons even used part of their residence as the association’s early headquarters in 1955.  Mr. And Mrs. Clayton started their own consulting business, Clayton Environmental Consultants, in 1954.  The Claytons retired in 1974 but continued to be very involved in the industreial hygiene profesion into their retirement years,  Mr. Clayton passed away in 2000.  The George and Florence Clayton Scholarship was endowed in 1997 through contributions from Mr. And Mrs. Clayton, the employees of their consulting business and several alumni of the Clayton Organization.  Learn more at http://bit.ly/claytonscholarship.”

Dolly Ruth Pendergrass, April 10, 1927-June 21, 2012.  Mrs. Dolly Ruth Liles Pendergrass, a native of Frisco City, AL and a resident of Mobile, AL died Tuesday June 21, 2012. She is survived by her husband, John A. Pendergrass; three children, John A. Pendergreass III, Judith Ann Pendergrass and Nancy Jean Pendergrass; one brother Owen M. Liles Jr. and other relatives.  Funeral services will be held from the Christ United Methodist Church on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 3 PM. Visitation will start at 2 PM.  Interment will be Monday in Fort Payne, AL.  Condolences may be offered at www.radneyfuneralhome-mobile.com

Major Douglas J. Davis, USAF, BSC (Ret). after a valiant 12 year battle with cancer he passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Fountain Valley, CA on June 30, 2012.  Born February 22, 1937 in Honea Path, SC, to the late Luther and Bennie (Fisher) Davis. Doug is survived by “The light of his life”, his loving wife of 46+ years Anna V. Davis (the former Anna V. Kuehn of Llewellyn, PA), sons Dale R. Davis and Anthony W. Davis; daughters-in-law Stephanie Davis and Dee Ann Davis; grandchildren Ryan Davis, Eric Christopher Davis, Tyler Davis, Michael Davis, Lara Davis, Nicolas Davis, and Eden Davis.  Doug was pre-deceased by his daughter Viola Marie Davis, brothers Buck Davis, Alvin Davis, Ray Davis, and sisters Francis Pitts and Willie Mae Garrett. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1955 and served his country honorably for 22 years in the field of Occupational Health and Safety.  He earned his BS at the University of Wyoming and MS at the University of Southern California.  His military assignments included Clark AFB in the Philippine Islands, Myrtle Beach AFB in SC, Norton AFB and Los Angeles AFB in CA, Wiesbaden AB, Germany as well as 5 tours at various bases in Texas.  During his time of duty he received numerous awards and commendations.  Upon his retirement from the USAF in 1977, he worked for Gulf Oil Corp. in Pittsburgh, PA; Southern Cal Edison in Rosemead, CA and his own OHS consulting company.  He was a member of numerous national and local professional and military

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organizations; he served from 1999 until his death as Secretary/Treasurer of the Yuma Pacific Southwest Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (YPSW-AIHA).  He was a 33rd degree Mason, a life member of Centre Lodge 37 in Honea Path, SC, a member of the Long Beach Scottish Rite and a Noble of the Al Malaikah Shrine Temple in Los Angeles, CA.  Doug enjoyed leisure time with his family and friends, and ocean cruises. A Masonic and Military memorial service was held Saturday, July 7 at Shoreline Baptist Church, Fountain Valley, California.  Major Davis will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia with full military honors at 3:00 PM October 25, 2012. Note to all members: One of Doug’s last requests was that I invite everyone at the service to join the family at the Ft Myer Officers Club for refreshments. An Electronic Legacy Books for leaving tributes/condolences can be found at:

www.heritage-dildaymemorialservices.com/obituaries/Douglas-Davis

(I want to thank each of you for the many beautiful cards, emails, sentiments and entries in Doug’s Legacy Book.  All are very comforting to my entire family.)

The newsletter containing registration information, the program, etc., will be mailed to you in late October/early November (after I come back from Wash DC) or contact Anna Davis [[email-masked]].”  This will give you ample time to send in your registration forms and checks for the meeting.

Thanks to all the YPSW members for keeping the faith and making YPSW a continuing success.  Member input and cooperation keeps YPSW alive and flourishing.  Information about your travels, health or any other subject

that may be of interest to fellow members is welcomed for publication.

Wishing each of you a happy, safe and very enjoyable fall season as the foliage becomes beautiful and summer fades away.

I look forward to seeing you all in January in beautiful San Diego.

Very truly yours,

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Anna V. Davis

Acting Secretary-Treasurer

Enclosure:

Membership Book

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