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news from our chapters1 Asheville president; Alan Moller was voted vice-president; and Michael Th e 110th meetin g was held Wednesday evening, 14 May 1986, Mach was selected secretary-treasurer. on the campus of the University of Nort h Carolina-Asheville. The topic for the evening was a review of the 1986 spring There were 10 members and two guests present. storm season in the southern plains. Featured speakers were After minutes were read and approved and routine officer Ti m Marshall, Alan Moller, and Phil Sherman. reports made, a drawing for a door prize was held. Rob Quayle Marshall highlighted a tornadic thunderstorm that occurred won a copy of Stephen Schneider's book, The Genesis Strategy, near the Texas panhandle community of Canadian on 7 May. which was graciously donated by Harold Crutcher. He showed the audience several minutes of video tape and Gary Miller, director of environmental studies at the Uni- slides of several tornadoes that were produced by the storm versity of Nort h Carolina-Asheville was the guest speaker and complex. Phil Sherman also showed slides of other storms that his topic was ''Acid Rain: A Scientific and Political Dilemma." occurred during the spring. Miller described the types, sources, and effects of acid depo- Alan Moller shared with those present slides he had taken sition and discussed the costs involved in combatting it. He of a 7 May tornado that occurred near Windthorst in North noted that the southeastern United States is experiencing the Texas. The tornado, which moved primarily over rural areas, greatest change (i.e. increase) in the acid-rain problem in the caused several-million-dollars damage and injured four people. United States during the last ten years and devoted the last Moller closed out the meeting with a series of some of his part of his talk to the acid deposition problem in North Car- favorite scenic slides taken on storm chases that often had olina.—Richard Heirti, Jr., Secretary few storms but still offered opportunities to photograph some of the wonders of nature.—Christopher Sohl, Secretary-Treas- Central North Carolina urer • During the winter-spring season, five speakers presented a range of interesting topics. Air Force Captain Clayton of the Air Weather Service described the role of a military meteor- ologist, which has become more important with the increased 25 years ago.. . environmental sensitivity of weapons. Lance Bosart, professor of atmospheric science at the State University of New York at Albany discussed many of the very interesting atmospheric National Trust for Historic Preservation processes associated with the Appalachian Mountains. Rich- Cites AMS Building* ard Barber, biological oceanographer at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, gave a thought-provoking discussion of El On 14 October 1961, the National Trust for Historic Pres- Nin o as seen firsthand. Leslie DeLashmutt from Research Tri- ervation opened a Traveling Exhibit at the Museum of Cooper angle Institute explained artificial intelligence-expert systems Union for the Advancement of Arts and Science, Cooper and how they might be applied to visibility forecasting, radar Square, New York. The 39-panel show depicting the history interpretation, and forecasting short-term severe storms. The of preservation in this country remained at Cooper Union season's final speaker was Neil Frank, director of th e National through 17 November. During the next two years the exhibit Hurricane Center. Frank was the after-dinner speaker at the will travel under the program of the American Federation of annual banquet. He spoke about Hurricane Gloria and other Arts. memorable storms of his career. Also at the banquet, the new Th e AMS headquarters is listed under No. 61 of the cata- chapter officers were announced: Rod Gonski, chairman; Her- logue of the show, which is also Vol. 13, No. 3, of Historic schel Slater, vice chairman; Tom Pierce, secretary; and Richard Preservation, the National Trust publication. "Wind, weather, Jones, treasurer. The first scholarship money provided by the outer space and sputniks," begins th e entry under the Bulfinch chapter was presented to Ray Young, a meteorology student House, "are not the only concern of the 7000 members of the at North Carolina State University. American Meteorological Society, who in 1958 entered the This spring several amendments to the chapter's constitu- field of historical preservation." tion were approved. These involved committee structure, After a brief paragraph on the historical background of the dues, meeting times, and expenditure of chapter funds.—Steve mansion built for Harrison Gray Otis in 1806, the article re- and Katie Perry, Co-secretaries counts the restoration accomplished to date and the Society's goals for the future. A picture of the frescoed ceiling in the North Texas Oval Ballroom is included. Th e chapter held its last meeting of the 1985-86 year on 24 Echoing Thomas Jefferson's "the earth belongs to the liv- June 1986 in Arlington. After dinner, Dave Martin, president, ing," the National Trust advocates, among other means of opened the meeting. Following the business report, elections preservation, the intelligent adaptive use of histori c landmarks for th e 1986-87 year were held. Gifford "Skip " Ely was elected to present-day needs. Structures which serve a contemporary function, "without a velvet rope," are contrasted with the historic house museum in a series of pictures on "the saved." • 1 Meeting reports received at headquarters before 19 Septem- ber 1986 are included. Copy from chapter representatives should be typed double-spaced and submitted to the news ed- *Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 42, 863. itor in duplicate.—News Ed. Bulletin American Meteorological Society http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

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Asheville president; Alan Moller was voted vice-president; and Michael Th e 110th meetin g was held Wednesday evening, 14 May 1986, Mach was selected secretary-treasurer. on the campus of the University of Nort h Carolina-Asheville. The topic for the evening was a review of the 1986 spring There were 10 members and two guests present. storm season in the southern plains. Featured speakers were After minutes were read and approved and routine officer Ti m Marshall, Alan Moller, and Phil Sherman. reports made, a drawing for a door prize was held. Rob Quayle Marshall highlighted a tornadic thunderstorm that occurred won a copy of Stephen Schneider's book, The Genesis Strategy, near the Texas panhandle community of Canadian on 7 May. which was graciously donated by Harold Crutcher. He showed the audience several minutes of video tape and Gary Miller, director of environmental studies at the Uni- slides of several tornadoes that were produced by the storm versity of Nort h Carolina-Asheville was the guest speaker and complex. Phil Sherman also showed slides of other storms that his topic was ''Acid Rain: A Scientific and Political Dilemma." occurred during the spring. Miller described the types, sources, and effects of acid depo- Alan Moller shared with those present slides he had taken sition and discussed the costs involved in combatting it. He of a 7 May tornado that occurred near Windthorst in North noted that the southeastern United States is experiencing the Texas. The tornado, which moved primarily over rural areas, greatest change (i.e. increase) in the acid-rain problem in the caused several-million-dollars damage and injured four people. United States during the last ten years and devoted the last Moller closed out the meeting with a series of some of his part of his talk to the acid deposition problem in North Car- favorite scenic slides taken on storm chases that often had olina.—Richard Heirti, Jr., Secretary few storms but still offered opportunities to photograph some of the wonders of nature.—Christopher Sohl, Secretary-Treas- Central North Carolina urer • During the winter-spring season, five speakers presented a range of interesting topics. Air Force Captain Clayton of the Air Weather Service described the role of a military meteor- ologist, which has become more important with the increased 25 years ago.. . environmental sensitivity of weapons. Lance Bosart, professor of atmospheric science at the State University of New York at Albany discussed many of the very interesting atmospheric National Trust for Historic Preservation processes associated with the Appalachian Mountains. Rich- Cites AMS Building* ard Barber, biological oceanographer at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, gave a thought-provoking discussion of El On 14 October 1961, the National Trust for Historic Pres- Nin o as seen firsthand. Leslie DeLashmutt from Research Tri- ervation opened a Traveling Exhibit at the Museum of Cooper angle Institute explained artificial intelligence-expert systems Union for the Advancement of Arts and Science, Cooper and how they might be applied to visibility forecasting, radar Square, New York. The 39-panel show depicting the history interpretation, and forecasting short-term severe storms. The of preservation in this country remained at Cooper Union season's final speaker was Neil Frank, director of th e National through 17 November. During the next two years the exhibit Hurricane Center. Frank was the after-dinner speaker at the will travel under the program of the American Federation of annual banquet. He spoke about Hurricane Gloria and other Arts. memorable storms of his career. Also at the banquet, the new Th e AMS headquarters is listed under No. 61 of the cata- chapter officers were announced: Rod Gonski, chairman; Her- logue of the show, which is also Vol. 13, No. 3, of Historic schel Slater, vice chairman; Tom Pierce, secretary; and Richard Preservation, the National Trust publication. "Wind, weather, Jones, treasurer. The first scholarship money provided by the outer space and sputniks," begins th e entry under the Bulfinch chapter was presented to Ray Young, a meteorology student House, "are not the only concern of the 7000 members of the at North Carolina State University. American Meteorological Society, who in 1958 entered the This spring several amendments to the chapter's constitu- field of historical preservation." tion were approved. These involved committee structure, After a brief paragraph on the historical background of the dues, meeting times, and expenditure of chapter funds.—Steve mansion built for Harrison Gray Otis in 1806, the article re- and Katie Perry, Co-secretaries counts the restoration accomplished to date and the Society's goals for the future. A picture of the frescoed ceiling in the North Texas Oval Ballroom is included. Th e chapter held its last meeting of the 1985-86 year on 24 Echoing Thomas Jefferson's "the earth belongs to the liv- June 1986 in Arlington. After dinner, Dave Martin, president, ing," the National Trust advocates, among other means of opened the meeting. Following the business report, elections preservation, the intelligent adaptive use of histori c landmarks for th e 1986-87 year were held. Gifford "Skip " Ely was elected to present-day needs. Structures which serve a contemporary function, "without a velvet rope," are contrasted with the historic house museum in a series of pictures on "the saved." • 1 Meeting reports received at headquarters before 19 Septem- ber 1986 are included. Copy from chapter representatives should be typed double-spaced and submitted to the news ed- *Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 42, 863. itor in duplicate.—News Ed. Bulletin American Meteorological Society

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