IEEE Central Indiana Section History
Many courses were announced for the year to provide valuable training and instruction for those looking to their own future. From Purdue Dr. Elliott, writing for Continuing Engineering Education offered IHETS TV courses in Basic Management Skills for Scientists and Engineers, Manufacturing Quality Control and Fundamentals of Engineering Review. The Power Engineering Society offered training in Substation Engineering. The Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis with co-sponsorship by our section offered a Microcomputer/Microprocessor Workshop course (complete with a microcomputer) and an Introduction to Digital Circuits course with a workshop, There is something to learn in these offerings for any engineer with costs to fit the pocketbook from $10 to $450.
Phil Ballantyne in his - from the chairman - urges all to participate in voting for our IEEE officers and in another column reports on the passing of a high school slide rule cmopetition held by the University of Texas (Austin) for 46 years. The world changes! How long has it been since you have seen this status symbol of our profession dangling from a belt o~ ~v· a 4" ~ 6" tucked away in a pocket? Even with a computer on the desk, your historian will wager that there are still many slide rules in the desk -- just in case!
September, among many other events, saw a tour of Public Service Indiana's Marble Hill Nuclear Generating Station. This tour, sponsored by the Power Engineering Society, was on a Saturday and conditions were strictly 'under construction' but over 180 were there.
Five tours enlightened our members attending section meetings; with joint sponsor the Power Engineering Society we toured the Detroit Diesel Allison plant; in November it was Laboratory Automation and a tour of Eli Lilly and Co.; in February, with a program for our spouses, we toured RCA following a fine dinner in the plant; in May it was our annual tour of the 500 track and then in June it was a tour of the Westinghouse Electric Large Power Transformer Division in Muncie.
Other programs for the year were on electronic mail by Dr. J. L. Devilbiss with the Computer Society as a co-sponsor; electric vehicles, by Prof. Larry Ogborn of Purdue and one on robots by Tom Foltz, President of Total Systems Incorporated during a meeting co-sponsored by the student section of Rose-Hulman at Rose-Hulman.
Interesting comments in THE REPORTER were written about the student branch at Rose-Hulman and the school they attend, the IHETS TV System by Charles S. Elliott, on IUPUI by Ben J. Keller and one entitled, "It's Hard ~o Keep a Good Man Down" also by Prof. Keller, the 'good man' being Frank Burley, a ,destined member, active on many committess and former chairman.
The fifth IEEE/Indy Microcomputer show was held on June 30, 1981 with more space, more dislays, more technical sessions and more people attending. This again 'proved that the Central Indiana Section of IEEE is a 'can do' group.
At year's end our treasury indicated a balance of $20,741.47 thanks to continued success in training courses and a great willingness to work and cooperate by' all. The treasurer's report was always on time and in precise order by our treasurer, Dr. David A. Landgrebe. His use of a home computer and printout was a first.
I will have to repeat -- it was another good year.
In July 1981 two of our most experienced members became our Chairman and Vice-Cha.irman. Each had worked his way to section leadership by willing cooperation with previous officers and faithful attendance at se.ction activities. Bob and Ken had served on, or worked closely with, every committee of the section. Bob had greeted us for many of the meetings for some period of time while serving on the Hospitality Committee. Ken had worked hard and mostly by himself in accomplishing the various tasks of keeping THE REPORTER functioning as the important communication link of our section. Our chairman for the year was: Robert D. Adams with Ken Barr serving as Vice-Chairman. They were ably assisted by Dr. David A. Landgrebe as Secretary and Greg A. Head as Treasurer. Directors were Gerald D. Waltz and Dr. Marvin A. Needler. Harry Bostic continued as Editor of THE REPORTER.
The month of September indicated considerable planning had been accomplished during the summer holiday. Dr. Elliott of Purdue announced the schedule for the Continuing Engineering Education courses for fall presentation over the IHETS TV network. There were seven courses available, three being popular courses repeated by request and four new courses. The Power Engineering Society published their annual schedule of events and announced their fali short course on "Electric Cars and Batteries". Other groups were well along with their planning and most had published at least one scheduled event. Kevin Sosbe had been elected Chairman of the Bloomington sub-section and promised an active program there.
The ~ program of the year was a tour of the Ransburg Corporation with emphasis on robots. Dinner was in the plant, followed by remarks from Mr. Milo Friesen, President of Cybotech. .. ""evA A good p~ was present and the evening was enjoyed by all. In February, spouses' night, we toured the Indianapolis Center for Advanced Research following a good dinner at the La Scala restaurant. In April our joint meeting with a student group was at Purdue and following dinner at the Union we toured the "Purdue Computer Aided Design and Graphics Laboratory". Dr. D. C. Anderson, Director of the Laboratory, briefly discussed the laboratory and its function. Mechanical Drawing 101 was certainly a long way off when you saw complicated design changes made with ease by a computer. In May we toured the track with dinner at the Speedway Motel and, as usual, it was a memorable event. The last regular meeting of the section for the year was also a tour with a joint meeting with the Bloomington sub-section. This tour was of the Indiana Bell Electronic Switching Facility in Bloomington. There was no dinner planned for this event.
For two years the section had cooperated with the Electric League of Indiana and their Expo '81 that was presented in the Indianapolis Convention Center. The event scheduled for November was on our schedule as a regular section meeting and many did attend. Unfortunately, the planned dinner had to be cancelled due to a lack of response.
Other section meetings of the year were on "The Interconnect Industry" by Norm Boman of Executone Inc. of Long Island City, New York; "High Quality Cables" by George Rakos of Hendrix Cable, New Hampshire and "Applications of Network Personal Computers in a Real Time Lab Environment", a joint meeting with the Computer Society, with Kenneth A. Sherwin of TRW Ross Gear Division, Lafayette and Asst. Professor J. Michael Jacob/School of Technology, Purdue.
During this year many changes took place in the way we did things and in the outside activities of the section. After many years of presenting an annual Microcomputer Show that had always proven successful, the show had outgrown the usual facilities and recent competition had entered the field. Although the show had made $2,300 for the section in June of 1981 it was realized that some changes were required. After much discussion and several committee meetings, it was agreed to form a new show. The Central Indiana Section of I.E.E.E. joined in an agreement with the National Electronic Distributor Association (NEDA) and the Electronic Representative Association (ERA) to plan for and present Indycon '82. Each group was to furnish three directors, with one of the IEEE Directors to be the Seminar Director. The first Indycon was held August 24 and 25, 1982 in the Indianapolis Convention Center and was a success.
Changes in the section resulting from Executive Board action were the appointment of Dr. Marvin Needler to replace Dr. Fritz J. Friedlaender as Dr. Friedlaender would be out of the country for most of the year; the fiscal year was changed from an academic to an annual year and a new method of accepting reservations ~ utilized, to improve communications/with the office of the Electric League doing the coordinating work. Other changes involved training and educational courses. In January IEEE had taken a bold step ahead of others and presented a short course on "Project Management" with Merrell Buckley. WFYI (Channel 20) had cooperated in providing the downlink with the satellite and feed to IHETS. In attendance at various sites around Indiana were over 180 students and engineers; of these 52 were from Naval Avionics and 54 from the Crane Naval Weapons Center. Nationwide there were 650 to 700 that learned by satellite during this presentation. Our sectionJpresentation of technical courses were fewer with a resulting decrease in revenue. This had been a year of change but interest remained strong and attendance at functions had been good.
During the spring and summer of 1982 the Executive committee of the section had been very busy. In Maya formal invitation had invited those concerned to attend a reception and informal discussion in the Mayor's Conference Room of the City-County Building, Indianapolis. The outlined purpose was to obtain members' concerns with respect to the present status and direction of the engineering profession and the institute. Present from headquarters of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers were Eric Herz, General Manager and Executive Director and James Owen, President Elect. This meeting provided interesting discussions and provided valuable information to our national l~aders about our city, area and the activity in our profession. In July the Executive Committee met at the China Royal for the first of two important meetings for the summer organization and planning sessions. The second meeting of the summer was held at the Convention Center following the first day of the Microprocessor Show being held there.
In August in an announcement from the Governor's office, our Past Chairman, Gerald Waltz, was appointed to the State Board of Registration for Engineers and Land Sureyors. On that Board he joined another long-time member, Herman A. Moench.
Officers for the year were Chairman, Ken Barr; Vice-Chairman, Dr. Marvin A. Needler; Secretary, Melvin T. Forthafer and Treasurer, Ova 'Glen' Amburgey. Directors were Phillips Ballantyne and Dr. Fritz J. Friedlaender. Editor of THE REPORTER was Harry D. Bostic with Ronald L. Wolff as Business Manager.
With another fine set of officers the section was off to a good start for the year 1982-1983. The September issue of THE REPORTER always sets the tone for the year and starts the year's activity with numerous announcements. This issue lists the meeting da~ for the year and the major activities for the fall. Dr. Charles S. Elliott in his Continuing Engineering Education comments on 'Personal Renewal' and states, "It's never too late to catch up or continue in keeping up to date in your field." A very true statement and we are indeed fortunate to have good activity with good coordinators in this area. Dr. Elliott then announced four new programs, one revised program and three previous successes for the IHETS network plus some on-campus conferences. Power Engineering announced an October course in "Engineering Economics" and also their programs for the year.
On December 7, 1982 the first national presentation of a televised training course was presented. This course was on 'Robotics' and following some early coordination problems the course was presented to an estimated 2,500 attendees nationwide, of these 250 were from Indiana.
Programs for the year 1982-1983 were of the usual high caliber. The program with the greatest number of attendees remained the annual meeting at the track, even though we were not permitted that year to drive personal cars on the track. The total attendance for that meeting was, 122. However, if we were only to count members attending the best attended meeting would be the June meeting with Don Baker, Senior Experimental Engineer of Detroit Diesel Allison talking on "Micro Computing". A tour of Wavetedl proved interesting to 58 members and guests. Other programs were on computers, static awareness, the video disc, fiber optics and one on "From Garage to Corporation" again proof that new ideas and hard work can still result in success in America and in our own area. Unfortunately, one joint meeting with the Bloomington Sub-Section was cancelled but later rescheduled with success by the sub-section.
In THE REPORTER Chairman Ken Barr honored our members of 'Fellow Grade' by listing the 18 members that were currently in that category. He also used the listing to remind all members that to become a 'Fellow' one must first be a Senior Member.
In another issue of THE REPORTER Ova (GlelVAmburgey, while writing in 'from the Treasurer' concludes with, "Dealing with the 27 members of the Executive Committee for the last six months has taught me one other thing: not one of them have the time to spend on this committee. However, they are here. So the next time someone asks you to help out or run for office, what's going to be your excuse?"
It has been another good year.
Our officers for the year 1983-84 were Chairman, Dr. Marvin A. Needler; Vice-Chairman, Dr. David A. Landgrebe; Secretary, Ova "Glen" Amburgey and Treasurer, Charles Mason. Directors for the year were Robert D. Adams and Phillips Ballantyne. Harry D. Bostic was Editor of THE REPORTER with Ronald L. Wolff as Business Manager.
The year started as usual in September but with a more than busy September schedule for many of our members as the Joint Power Generation Conference was held in Indianapolis at the HyattRegency Hotel. Approximately 1,000 attendees participated in 55 technical sessions and three tours.
The September meeting was a joint meeting of the section with the Power Engineering Society and was a tour of the Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center. This ever popular tour drew 43 to see the wonders of computers, scopes and communications required to make flying safer.
September announcements included tentative schedules for the year's programs, Dr. Elliott for Continuing Engineering Education announcing five courses for the IHETS network and the Power Engineering Society announcing their fall course on "Distribution Fault Current Protection." The IHETS is now showing courses in 25 industries and at six campus sites. There are over 400 videotape courses available in 18 disciplines from 24 AMCEE member universities.
The Power Engineering Society had been nominated with eight others for the outstanding chapter award of their society. Unfortunately, though they were close they were not the winner. All the work was not for naught though as many had worked long and hard to make the chapter a better chap~r, involved in more activities. The working together will long remain with them in making a good chapter an even better chapter. Each member deserves the congrations of our section for the near perfect effort.
Indycon '83 had earned for our section $2,207.77 and in October was already preparing for Indycon '84. Income for the event had been $75,697 and Expe~nses $62,450. Half of the balance is reserved as an o'peration fund for the next year and the remaining half is divided between the three sponsors IEEE, NEDA and ERA.
In October the Treasurer's report to the section indicated a net balance of $19,644.28.
The October meeting of the section was held at the Ramsburg Corp. and following dinner a tour was enjoyed by the 62 present. The feature of the tour was the use of advanced technology in industrial robots.
The last of the fall meetings was held at MaC~ftML~ with member Dr. Leslie A. Geddes making a presentation on "Exercise- Responsive Pacemaking." f1~"'~
In December Secretary Glen Amburgey resigned to accept employment in Ohio. He was succeeded by Chris Jamison.
January 1984 marked the start of the "IEEE Centennial Year" vt!s~( h .... , I~ S"'~4. 5,~~/~1 events for our section. The first meeting of the year was held at the Naval Avionics Center. Several past chairmen and members have been employed at NAC and if no one else showed up for a meeting this group alone could make a good section meeting. The NAC cafeteria prepared the dinner at a minimum cost. Capt. W. R. Abel, Commanding Officer, was present and welcomed us to the facility and as a centennial event he briefly reviewed the history of NAC for us. The following tour of the Digital Avionics Systems Laboratory was most interesting and educational for over 110 ladies and gentlemen present for the tour.
In February for our Honors and Awards evening, celebrated with the ladies, we were fortunate to have Dr. Leslie A. Geddes as our speaker talking on "E lectricity in Medicine 1745-1983.~ Our Chairman Dr. Marvin Needler reported the evening exceptionally well in his "From the Chairman" comments in the April issue of THE REPORTER.
"Our February 16 meeting was a special occasion not only because it was our Annual Awards program but also because it was the Centennial Awards program. In celebration of the IEEE Centennial Year in 1984, there are 1984 Centennial Medals awarded to individuals for service to the Institute. Our section was granted eight of these awards. Based on the nomination from section members. our Awards Committee elected the following: Robert Adams. Roy Kenneth Barr, Harry D. Bostic, Robert K. Brown, George R. Fraser, John E. Harder, Clare D. McGillem and Marvin A. Needler. These awards were presented at the February meeting.
The J. Fred Peoples award was presented to Robert Adams for his work in virtually all the offices of the section and for his leadership in Indycon. the full spectrum electronic exhibition and conference which developed from the IEEE/Indy Microcomputer Show."
A special misfortune occurs to those that lead the Awards Committee, namely, no matter how deserving they may be they are not recognized for their service. Indeed deserving was the case this year. For this reason. Mr. Gerald Waltz and Mr. Fritz Friedlaender, the Awards Committee Co-Chairmen, were presented with certificates for service to the section, as previous chairmen of the section, for other extensive services. and for the awards committee responsibility. Thanks for a job well done, Jerry and Fritz.
The balance of the section meeting included a brief centennial history composed by George Fraser and the main presentation by Leslie Geddes on electricity and medicine. All this along with a very nice meal and an enjoyable evening and a successful meeting.
The March meeting was a joint meeting with the Bloomington subsection and the April meeting was with the IUPUI Student Chapter and both meetings were on computers .
In May we were back at 'The Track' with a very interesting program on "Miles and Milliseconds, Timing and Scoring" with Joe A. Clouter from the Speedway staff and Art Graham of USAC.
The June meeting was very well attended for an out of Indianapolis meeting. It was a tour at the Delco Electronics Plant of Kokomo.
All in all it had been a good year.
A July 10, 1984 meeting at the China Royal Restaurant had assisted in the yearly changeover. Our Chairman had been reelected and most committees were organized and ready to work. The treasurer's report indicated the net amount available to the section as $17,963.40.
Officers for the year were Chairman, Dr. Marvin Needler; Vice Chairman, Chris Jamison; Secretary, Charles Mason and Treasurer, Max Willis. Directors were Robert D. Adams and Ken Barr. The staff of THE REPORTER was Nancy W. Molzan, Editor and Ronald L. Wolff as Business Manager.
The September 1984 issue of THE REPORTER was the first of a new and different publication. Costs and lead time have always been problems with our section publication. The purpose of the new REPORTER is ~ reduce cost and make each issue more timely. A new Editor also reported ~ duty to succeed long time Editor Harry Bostic. She is Nancy Molzan, a former teacher but now & recent EE and member of I.E.E.E. In this issue the P.E.S. announced their fall course as one on "Transformer Design and Application" with five sessions of two hours each. Dr. Elliott for Continuing Engineering Education reviewed the offerings available ~ on the IHETS network. IEEE announced an offering of a course on the "INTEL Sixteen-Bit Microprocessor Chips - Architecture and Applicaton" to be taught by Mr. Rick Schue. The section meeting for the month will be a tour, jointly sponsored by the Power Engineering Society and the section)of Plant 20, Delco Remy Division of General Motors at Anderson.
October marks the culmination of the centennial year celebration with the finish of the first and start of the second century of the electrical engineering profession. The event to mark this change goes back to where it all started -- the Franklin Institute -- \'lith a satellite program "The Second Century Begins." The Central Indiana Section participated in this celebration with a dinner at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Student Union. It was an early Thanksgiving menu that made for a good dinner for those attending. Early attendees had been able to see the slide presentation of the "History of Electrical Engineering."
After dinner all adjourned to the IU School of Nursing Teleconference room to view via satellite the program from Philadelphia. It was a dramatic evening.
The calendar year and the centennial year for our section closed with a meeting jointly sponsored by the Electric League of Indiana, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the Central Indiana Section of the I.E.E.E. The meeting was a presentation and tour. The meeting was on the 'Technology of Lasers' and was held at the {-,. ({.~ .. .,( h 'j Airport Holiday Inn ~ the tour of the laser facility.
As Electrical Engineers we have had a great heritage but I couldn't help ~ thinking and feeling that the centennial year had been interesting but the most important event had been the celebration of 'The Second Century Begins'.
IEEE, 1984 - 1986
The early part of the year 1984-85 has previously been published in THE REPORTER.
The Centennial year is over and our section has participated, via satellite, in the presentation of liThe Second Century 8eginsll from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Over·the past ten months we have been reminded of our heritage in several different ways, plant histories, brief talks, slide presentation, an interesting program by one of our Fellows, Dr. Leslie A. Geddes on the History of Electricity in Medicine 1745-1983 and the publication of the History of the Central Indiana Section in THE REPORTER.
The Second Century has indeed begun as we look back on the past with pride and accomplishment but if we are to continue to grow as an individual and section we must look to the future and prepare for the future. A review of the programs of the section and of the courses being offered by our various educational activities can result in only one conclusion and that conclusion must be that the opportunity is available but it is up to you, the individual member, to accept and participate in these opportunities if you are to be a part of the challenge of the future.
Programs as scheduled in THE REPORTER went along pretty much according to schedule. The annual trip to the track was again one of the major meetings of the year with Tom Binford, Chief Steward of the Indianapolis 500, our speaker. Mr. Thomas W. Binford, as one of the most prominent men in Indianapolis, talked about racing as he knew it and his particular philosophy that had helped him in making some difficult decisions that involved racing over the years. This program was again jointly sponsored with the Electric League of Indiana. The tour of the garage area was interesting, as usual, and the presentation by Mr. Binford was outstanding.
For those that attended regularly it was obvious that an honest attempt was made during the year to have something for every member. Meal costs and social hours were varied, beer was brought in and made available at cost for a few of the meetings in an effort to reduce costs.
During the Centennial year membership in the IEEE had passed the quarter million mark. Our Central Indiana Section membership had also grown from a eported 1,541 members in March of 1985. Much of the increase was due to increased student involvement. This is good as they are the members of the future. Chairman Marvin Needler reported that the student section of IUPUI has become a very active student section.
The funding of the section and particularly the funding of THE REPORTER are usual problems but with an all around conservation effort and the changes in the publication of the section publication this was not a problem of the year 1984-85. The year had started with $17,963.40 available in the treasury and ended with $18,865.95 available to start 1985-86. IndyCon 184 held October 8 & 9, 1984 had again been successful and resulted in income to IEEE of $1,816.47, Region 4 of IEEE $90.82 and to the section $1,725.65.
Several video conferences were held during the year with the section taking an integral part in each.
The section officially dropped the following subsections from the activities of the section; Circuits and Systems, Information Theory, Engineering Management and Engineering in Medicine and Biology. All were inactive and had failed to elect new officers.
An event of the past several months that has caused concern not only to our community but also to our section has been the phasing out and closing of the Western Electric Plant on Shade1and. The community has lost an asset, the employment of many people and our section has lost some fine engineers as a result.
The year 1984-85 was a year of many changes but a good year and a solid base has been established for the coming year.
Chris Jamison became our chairman in September 1985. Chris had been an active member since commencing his work career at the Naval Avionics Center. For many of our members their first acquaintance with Chris was at the door of a IEEE meeting while Chris was serving on or Chairman of the Hospitality Committee. Chris was ably assisted during the year by Max Willis from Public Ser9tce Indiana as Vice-Chariman, Ed Byrun from R.C.A. as Secretary, and Larry Ogborn of Purdue University as Treasurer. Directors were Dr. Marvin A. Needler of IUPUI and Ken Barr of R.C.A. Editor of THE REPORTER was Nancy Molzan from the Naval Avionics Center. All of our officers were registered Professional Engineers. It is believed this was the first time that all officers of the section were PEs.
Programs for the year were aimed at membership participation and the number and type of tours were increased as this usually brings out more members for a meeting. Six of the nine meetings had a tour as part of the meeting. For those whose feet and energy didn't wear out the first meeting of the year, a tour of the Indiana Bell facility in downtown Indianapolis, proved to be most complete and interesting. Tours of TV station WXIN and Indy Cablevision were interesting and educational. It is good to see that the section continues to work closely with our student sections.
For many years the section has alternated between Rose Hulman in Terre Haute and Purdue University in West Lafayette on a joint section and student section meeting. This year this meeting was held at Rose Hulman with a tour of the CBS/Sony Digital Audio Plant as a highlight of the meeting. The annual May meeting at the Indianapolis Speedway almost did not have a tour due to the construction of new garages but almost at the last minute, construction progress did permit a garage tour. The new garages are certainly an improvement and are better equipped to assist in the quest for speed and safety. The last tour and meeting of the year was a tour of the Cumins Engine Plant in Columbus, Indiana. This tour proved very popular and once again proved that with a good program, members are willing to travel. Approximately 50 members attended this meeting. Other meetings of the year were on manufacturing automation, Star Wars and for our annual honors and awards night, a very excellent meeting on medicine by Dr. James E. Lingeman of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Methodist Hospital.
The Power Engineering Society was very active, as usual, with regular meetings and the presentation of both a fall and spring training program. In January, Marlin Ford became Chairman of the PES group replacing Mike Martin who had been Chairman during 1985. This chapter is one of the top chapters in the United States finishing in the top five of all United States chapters almost yearly.
During the 1985-86 your Historian knows of the following that are representing the Central Indiana Section at he national and international level: Gene Nix of the Power Engineering Society and from the Electrical Engineering Technology Department of Purdue University was appointed Chairman of the internationally active PES Student Affairs Committee; Fritz Friedlander, Electrical Engineering Department, Purdue University is with the Magnetics Society and Dr. Leslie A. Geddes of the Biomedical Engineering Center, Purdue University was appointed as a member of the IEEE History Committee.
Membership in the IEEE and the Central Indiana Section continue to show a good growth pattern. During 1985 internationally IEEE grew at the rate of 4.2% finishing the year with 273,000 members world wide. Our Central Indiana Section finished the year with over 1,723 members.
Costs of operating the section continues to increase but the section operates very close to its self established operating budget. At the end of August 1985, cash available and invested was reported as $17,963.40. On September 1, 1986, the reported cash available and invested was $17,116.87. INDYCON that atone time was conducted entirely by our section has grown to such an extent we now have partners in sponsoring the show and the show is managed by a professional management corporation. For 1985, the section received $580.60 as its share of the profits of which 5% is obligated to Region IV of IEEE.
Educational activities during the year were numerous and covered many areas. Chuck Elliott of Purdue University has been a regular contributor to THE REPORTER and has worked long and hard to assist furthering engineering education. This year he was promoted from his position as Head of Continuing Engineering Education at Purdue University but he continued writing for THE REPORTER until his successor was appointed. A portion of one of these reports deserves repeating; lilt's never too late to learn more. Good advice for all and the opportunity is available through our section. Dr. Phillip H. Swain was named to succeed Chuck as Director for Continuing Engineering Education. Phil is well known to many members of the section as he has not only been an active member but he organized and for several years was Chairman of the Central Indiana Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. year.
All officers are to be congratulated for another good year.
