- 37 Years of Service to the EMC Community
- September/October 2009
2009 IEEE SymposiumFROM MOTOWN TO MOO-TOWNLast year it was Detroit; this year it was Austin, Texas, the "Live Music Capital of the World"! And what fun everyone was having. The host hotel was the Hilton, whose bar became popular for meeting, eating and drinking. Across the street was the Convention Center where everything else was happening. For the first time, in addition to a call for technical papers, there was a call for EMC musicians who livened things up for a day in the exhibit hall. It was surprising to learn how many EMC'ers could actually play a guitar and sing! 2010's symposium will be at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 25-30. See you there!  Chairman of the 2009 EMC Symposium in Austin, Dave Staggs and wife Barbara rein in on the dB Society Dinner Sunday evening.  The usual suspects from A.H. Systems -- Art Cohen, Jodi Henderson and Travis Samuels -- are back with two smiles and a straight face.  AR's head honcho Jim Maginn, shown here with Heather Stehman, marketing coordinator, is officially recognized now as company president.  The Leader Tech boys from Florida -- Joel Sparr and Mike Fry -- listen to a prospective customer who has stopped to shop.  Spira's gang is happy to be back in a booth: Mike Kunkel, President George Kunkel, Matt Williams, Will Wantz and Mayra Wallace.  When the USAF comes calling at Fischer Custom Communications in the form of Tim Hillman (far left) the whole gang -- Bruce Harlacher, Joe Fischer, Dave Fischer, Allen Fischer, and Peter Drembelas -- shows up.  Waiting for his induction into the dB Society at Lambert's Downtown Barbeque is Mike Violette with dB "old-timer" (Class of '98) Andy Drozd and Andy's son Evan.  EMC journalists had a tour of ETS-Lindgren on Monday by Bryan Sayler, senior v.p. and general manager.  Dressed in patriotic colors and ready to sell are Cuming Lehman's Randy Ryder, Jorgen Bruun and Steve Barnes.  A highlight at lunchtime and breaks in mid-exhibit hall was a band with volunteer EMC musicians, such as Mike Caruso and Mike Violette.  Testing their new business, em test, at the Austin show are Germano Taddio and Mike Hopkins.  Panashield Peggy (Girard, that is) had lots of help in her booth this year from Russell Lopez, Mark Prchlik and Brian Mullins.  Heading for Thursday's Awards Lunch are Ed and Gerrie Bronaugh where he and Don Heirman each received the new Hall of Fame Award.  Looking for new territories to conquer are Iowa-based Liberty Labs and World Cal Inc., represented by Jesse Larsen, Lou Statz and head man Mike Howard.  This tall eye-catching top to Fischer's booth featured four photographs of Virginia Fischer's father who spent many years living out west, gambling, teaching, riding horses and, as above, just grinning. |
