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Have you given much thought to
the history of the Metro chapter? When was it formed or who was the
first and second president of the chapter? Industrial hygiene and the
meeting must have been different in those days. No computers, no e-mail
and no digitized, computerized, automatic air sampling devices.
The New York Metro Chapter of
the American Industrial Hygiene Association was started in 1939, over sixty years ago. The first president was J. William Fehnel (1939) and
Theodore Hatch was the 1940 President. Since then quite a few presidents
have stepped up to take the gavel.
New York Metro section even
hosted the second annual Industrial Hygiene conference, which was held on
June 4-5 1940. Cleveland, Ohio has the distinction of hosting the first
Industrial Hygiene Conference in 1939.
We are completing a list of
all the presidents starting from 1939 to the current president. Your help
is needed to complete the list. We have contacted national to see if they
have any old records, but to no avail. Some of the former presidents have
also been contacted. With various people scratching their heads, we are
still missing those that served between 1941 and 1962 and from 1969 to
1973. If you can help, e-mail me at mailto:Mask241@aol.com
We will be adding the complete list as names come in. So keep on checking.
Stuart Mirowitz, MS, CIH,
CSP
Former President First recipient of the
Bull Moose Award
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