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New Academy Officers Elected 2013 Officers

Board of the Washington Academy of Sciences for 2013-14: Paul Arveson, Jeff
Plescia, Richard Hill, Neal Schmeidler, Ron Hietala, Jim Cole, Terrell
Erickson, Jim Egenrieder, Dick Davies, Frank Haig, Michael Cohen.

At the Annual Meeting on May 15, the members of the Washington Academy of
Sciences reported the election of their new President, Jim Egenrieder, and
other officers. Our gratitude goes to previous President Jim Cole for his
leadership and hard work on behalf of the Academy. Remarks from both
Presidents will be published in the next issue of the Journal of the
Washington Academy of Sciences. Biographies of the Officers are posted on
the Officers page of the web site.

We also thank Dr. James Mercer for his excellent presentation on the
challenges of cleanup of the nation’s contaminated groundwater sites.

The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington D.C. area scientific societies. The formation of the Academy culminated a decade of planning under the leadership of the Philosophical Society of Washington. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The purpose of the new Academy was to encourage the advancement of science and “to conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of science.” That purpose guided the Academy throughout its first 100 years and will continue to be our guide through the coming century.

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