The move of the Department of Chemistry at Queen's to a new building (Chernoff Hall) is complete, but the building still needs some finishing touches.
Several reports that were submitted to the October 30th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting are included in this Newsletter. I have done some editing in order to fit the reports into the available space. The full texts of these reports are available from me or from the individual authors.
On page 4, Diane Beauchemin reports on the further excellent progress she has made with the Journal since taking on the job of Editor-in-Chief. Special Issues of the Journal will appear to honour the former Editors-in-Chief Ian Butler and Chak Chakrabarti.
On page 6, Joy Sen Gupta reports on the business aspects and finances of the Journal. For the current year the Journal has lost one of its Corporate Sponsors (Agilent technologies). This is a serious blow to the finances of the Journal. Joy Sen Gupta has made a great effort to reduce expenses, but the loss of revenue will mean a larger subsidy from the Society this year. Efforts will be made to persuade Agilent and other companies to take out Corporate Sponsorship of the Journal for 2003.
This issue also includes Treasurer's and membership reports by Heidi Chen and a report by Student Representative Tina Mann.
I sadly reported in the previous Newsletter that Doug Russell one of the founding members of the Society died in March this year. Shier Berman and Victor Boyko have written an obituary, which appears on page 2 of this issue.

SOCIETY CONFERENCES
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 (Vol. 31, No.2) for the preliminary announcement and page 7 for the announcement of an associated workshop. ICASS 2003 will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the Canadian Thermal Analysis Society and a Workshop on Alcohol Authentication. The program for ICASS 2003 will cover three main areas. The program chairs for the three areas are: Marcin Pawlak (Atomic Spectroscopy), Ana Delgado (Molecular Spectroscopy), and Ewa Dabek (Separation Science - HPLC, GC, CE, etc.)
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.

NEW ADDRESS
The new address for Heidi Chen, SSC Treasurer and Membership Chair, is Inorganic Section, AAQD, Environmental Technology Centre, Environment Canada, 335 River Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3
Phone: 613-991-5494
Fax: 613-990-8568
Email: heidi.chen@ec.gc.ca

CORPORATE PROFILES
A profile of one of our supporting companies, Sciencetech, appears on page 6 of this newsletter. SSC supporting companies are invited to submit "profiles" for future issues of the newsletter.