This issue is a bit late due to my involvement with the move of the Department of Chemistry at Queen's to a new building (Chernoff Hall). I have been "downsized" to a cubicle in a shared office. Most of the equipment, chemicals and supplies that I accumulated during my 37 years at Queen's has been given away or thrown in the dumpster. However, I have been able to salvage my Raman set-up, which will be used in a physical chemistry teaching laboratory.

In this Newsletter, Diane Beauchemin reports on the excellent progress she has made with the Journal since taking on the job of Editor-in-Chief. (see page 4). Special Issues of the Journal will appear to honour the former Editors-in-Chief Ian Butler and Chak Chakrabarti. On page 5, Joy Sen Gupta reports on the business aspects and finances of the Journal.

This issue of the Newsletter also includes a Student Page edited by Student Representative Tina Mann.

I sadly have to report that Doug Russell one of the founding members of the Society died in March this year. Doug was made an Honorary Member of the Society in 1977. Shier Berman and Victor Boyko will be writing an obituary, which will appear in the next issue of the Newsletter

SOCIETY CONFERENCES
48th ICASS (2002)
The 2002 ICASS Conference was held in Toronto in partnership with EnviroAnalysis-2002. The award for the best student paper presented at the conference was given to Alison Holliday. Further details of the meeting will appear in the next Newsletter.
49th ICASS (2003)
The 49th ICASS will be held at Carleton Univ., Ottawa, June. 4-7, 2003. Nimal DeSilva is the Chairman of the conference. Please see page 6 for the preliminary announcement and page 7 for the announcement of an associated workshop.
50th ICASS (2004)
Marc Lamoureux will be the Chairman of the 50th ICASS to be held in Halifax in 2004.
51st ICASS (2005)
The 51st ICASS will be held in conjunction with the FACSS meeting in Quebec City in 2005. Denis Boudreau will be the ICASS chairman.

SOCIETY AWARDS
The 2002 Gerhard Herzberg Award has been made to Dr. Ralph Sturgeon (Institute for National Measurement Standards) and the Barringer Spectroscopy Award to Dr. Michèle Auger (Département de Chimie, Université Laval.

2002 Distinguished Service Awards
Awards for distinguished service to the Society have been made to: Conrad Gregoire, Ian Butler, Christine Gillette-Welling and Joy Sen Gupta.

Peter Krueger
The Society's first Gerhard Herzberg Award winner, Dr. Peter J. Krueger has been admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary in recognition of his exemplary and distinguished service to the University. Dr. Krueger joined the academic staff of the University of Alberta in 1959. He was the first Head of the Department of Chemistry when the University of Calgary was created in 1966. From 1976-90 Dr Krueger served as Vice-President (Academic) and Provost of the University. Since retiring in 1991, he has served as an advisor at the International Centre and has been involved with the University's Research Services.

Heidi Chen, SSC Treasurer and Membership Chair is now with the Inorganic Section of the Environmental Technology Centre, 335 River Road, Ottawa.

STUDENT PAGE
Student representative Tina Mann has been working very hard on proposals for student involvement in the SSC. Tina has edited a student page (see page 2). It is hoped that this page will become a regular feature of the Newsletter.