Fw: ARLX009 Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director, Honorary Vice President Dennis Bodson, W4PWF (SK)

[RICHARD BARTH]

Terry,

Thanks for passing this along. Years ago, I worked not with Dennis, but in the same building.
He was with NCS and I was then (back in the 70s) with what was then DCA, over on South Courthouse
Road in Arlington.

Sorry to hear of his passing.

Dick
> On July 4, 2016 at 3:31 PM Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dennis will truly be missed.
> 73, Terry, N4TLF
> 
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> Subject: ARLX009 Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director, Honorary Vice 
> President Dennis Bodson, W4PWF (SK)
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> SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX009
> ARLX009 Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director, Honorary Vice President
> Dennis Bodson, W4PWF (SK)
> 
> ZCZC AX09
> QST de W1AW
> Special Bulletin 9  ARLX009
> From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington CT  July 1, 2016
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB SPCL ARL ARLX009
> ARLX009 Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director, Honorary Vice President
> Dennis Bodson, W4PWF (SK)
> 
> Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director Dennis Bodson, W4PWF, of
> Arlington, Virginia, died on July 1. He would have turned 77 this
> month. Bodson had been recovering from recent surgery, but his death
> was unexpected.
> 
> An ARRL Life Member, Bodson announced his retirement from the ARRL
> Board of Directors during the Board's 2015 Annual Meeting. Fellow
> Board members gave Bodson a standing ovation in recognition of his
> years of service to the League, and they elected him as an Honorary
> Vice President. Earlier in the meeting, then-ARRL CEO David Sumner,
> K1ZZ, presented Bodson with his 60-year ARRL membership certificate.
> Sumner said he was shocked and saddened to learn of Bodson's
> passing.
> 
> "His service as Roanoke Division Vice Director and Director met a
> standard of common sense and loyalty to the ARRL that in my
> experience has been seldom matched and never exceeded," Sumner said.
> 
> Bodson served the League for more than 20 years - as Roanoke
> Division Vice Director from 1993 through 2000, and as Director from
> 2001 until he stepped down from the Board. He served on the Ethics
> and Elections, Programs and Services, Administration and Finance,
> and Executive committees. He also was the first chairman of the
> Board's Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Committee, and Past ARRL
> President Kay Craigie, N3KN, said Bodson's greatest contribution to
> the ARRL stemmed from his work on that panel.
> 
> "The committee's new, proactive stance made it possible to prevent
> and avoid what would have been a number of thorny problems for
> Amateur Radio operators and to promptly address others," Craigie
> said. "Dennis never got the credit he deserved for his leadership of
> this committee, because a bullet that's dodged doesn't make the
> headlines."
> 
> "In addition to his technical wisdom," she continued, "Dennis was a
> delightful colleague and a raconteur. His sense of humor was sly,
> dry, and sharp, and no bush ever died from his beating around it. He
> always had something insightful and/or funny to say."
> 
> Craigie said that Bodson was the Director when she moved into the
> Roanoke Division 9 years ago, "and I was proud to be his
> constituent," she said.
> 
> Roanoke Division Vice Director Bill Morine, N2COP, served previously
> as North Carolina Section Manager. "When I was a Section Manager, I
> was pleased and amazed at the level of continued support I received
> from Dennis when he was Roanoke Division Director," Morine said.
> 
> An electrical engineer and fellow of both the IEEE and the Radio
> Club of America, Bodson retired in 1998 as Chief of the Office of
> Technology and Standards of the National Communications System
> (NCS), US government agency. He occasionally contributed to QST and
> QEX. "In 1986 he shared some of his expertise in a four-part series
> of QST articles, 'Electromagnetic Pulse and the Radio Amateur,' that
> has stood the test of time as the classic treatment of this
> important topic," Sumner said.
> 
> His son Dennis A. Bodson, W3DZK, said arrangements are pending.
> NNNN
> /EX 
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