All, If you will be in the area on May 28th, please consider joining us for dinner and the opportunity to mingle with interesting people involved with product safety. If you are not yet an NPSS member, this is a great opportunity for you to become a member. Further information about the NPSS 15th Anniversary celebration and membership dinner is available at http://www.nepss.org/presentations2003/NPSSflyer15thdinner.doc.
Reservations are required and there is a nominal fee to non-NPSS members. Please provide any special dietary requirements information with your reservation confirmation and every attempt will be made to provide for your needs. Our keynote speaker Mary Saunders, Chief, Standards Services Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, will present the DOC standards initiative implementation. Additional bios information about Ms. Saunders is available at http://www.nepss.org/presentations2003/Bio_MarySaunders_NIST.doc. Following her presentation, Mary will open the floor for a discussion of issues that members of the audience see in the area of technical barriers to trade. The questions submitted by the Department of Commerce for comment in the planned roundtable dinner meeting are available at http://www.nepss.org/presentations2003/DOC_questions_for_NPSS.pdf. All are encouraged to offer their input to these questions. If you have any additional related questions that you would like discussed, please prepare written questions for discussion as time is expected to be a limiting factor and submit them to Paul Smith at pauljsmi...@cs.com. The dinner agenda is 6:00 – 650 – Registration & Social (Cash bar &appetizers) 6:50 – 7:00 – Opening remarks and Welcome message from Tony Nikolassy, NPSS President 7:00 – 8:00 – Dinner 8:00 – 8:20 – Introductions by Tony Nikolassy, NPSS President, followed by a historical review of the 15 year history of the NPSS by John Freudenberg, NPSS Treasurer. Following the door prize drawing by Tony, Paul Smith, Assistant VP of Meetings, will introduce our keynote speaker. 8:20 – Keynote speaker: Ms Mary Saunders-Chief, Standards Services Division, NIST. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links at http://www.nepss.org/secretary/officers03rev3.html. Directions to the Radisson Inn: The Radisson Inn is located a 75 Felton Street, Marlborough, MA (508-460-6015). From I-495 North or South, take exit 24B (Rte. 20 West / Northborough) and take your first right onto Felton Street. The hotel will be on your right. We are looking for a few volunteers to help on the registration table on the 28th. If you would like to be one of these volunteers, please contact Richard Silvernail at rdsilvern...@worldnet.att.net. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 3 Highwood Drive East Tewksbury, MA 01876 (978) 858-2303 Direct (978) 858-2300 Main (978) 858-2399 Fax matthew.campane...@motorola.com email This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
