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11.THE IUVSTA NEWS BULLETIN
The Union has published a News Bulletin since January 1965.
Its primary purpose is to inform its readers of the activities
of the IUVSTA and to publicise meetings held throughout the
world on vacuum and its applications. The Bulletin is in the
form of a non-commercial newsletter.It contains reports of
the Executive Council meetings and the General Meetings.
It often contains news articles about the National Vacuum
Societies that make up the Union membership. An article
entitled the “President’s Message” is frequently included in
which the President keeps the membership informed about
important Union matters and invites comments concerning
critical decisions to be made by the EC.
IUVSTA NEWS BULLETIN
Number:176 May 2017
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The SecretaryGeneral reportedon the statusofnegotiationswith tentativenewmember societies.AtGM19 twonew
member societieswereadmitted to theUnionunanimously:TheBulgarianUnionofPhysicistsand theVacuumSociety
of the Philippines. Both newmembers arewilling to contribute 1 share to the finances of the Union. The emerging
SocietiesCommittee iskeeping trackonpotentialnewmembers,among themTurkeyandRomania.At this timenonew
developmentsare known.
Concerning futureECMs itwasclarified thatatECM125nocall forbids for futureExecutiveCouncilMeetingswas issued.
A tentative schedulewithoptimummeetingdates forECM's127–129was sent to thedelegates recently.This schedule
adapts to the relativelyearly IVC21, July1
st
–5
th
,2019 inMalmö, Sweden.Before the conferenceECM130willbeheld
form June28
th
‐30
th
,2019.Bids forECM127and128willbe solicitedatECM126,Sept.29
th
–Oct.1
st
in Sofia,Bulgaria.
Presentsexchangebetween the IUVSTAPresidentandthehosts
Midnight torchwalk in the forest
Following the Secretary General's report the Treasurer presented the validated budget for 2016 and the proposed
budget for2017.After thispresentationandabriefdiscussionof the financialdata,ECM125wasadjournedand the4
th
AnnualGeneralMeetingof theUnion (AGM4)wasopened.Within thismeetingbothbudget itemswereunanimously
approved by the present delegations. Thereafter ECM 125was resumed and itwas generally agreed that this form of
holding theAnnualGeneralMeetingwasmuchmoreefficient thathaving itafterECM.
In the followingcommittee reports theworkof theprecedingcommitteemeetingswas recaptured.An importantaction
was taken during the report of PublicationsCommittee: The chair of this committee, Ivan Petrov proposed to rename
the Committee to "Communications Committee" because this namewould better reflect themain futurework of the
committee. The President agreed to this proposal and suggested this name change to ECM which unanimously
approved.
N!B! The ECM126web-site is open for registration:
http://www.veit.dir.bg/iuvista/iuvista_ecm.htmTraditionally, the Bulletin has been distributed
to members of the EC and to key personnel
in the national vacuum organisations. A limited
quantity was sent to the National Vacuum
Societies of IUVSTA for local distribution to
their officers and members. Since 1997, it has
been published in an electronic format and
appears on the IUVSTA website.
The first 33 issues of the News Bulletin were
published on a bimonthly basis, during a seven
year period, by E. Thomas, Secretary General,
from the Secretariat office in Brussels. In
1972, when the Secretariat was transferred to
London, N. A. Walter assumed editorship of the
Bulletin and it was published there. In 1974, it
was proposed that advertising be introduced in
the Bulletin to provide a source of income that
could be used to improve its appearance and
content, and that it be distributed to all members
of the national societies. This suggestion never
came to fruition.