Woody Award Goes to Gordon E. Pike
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Woody Award Goes to Gordon E. Pike Outgoing MRS president Jim Roberto presented the MRS Woody Award to Gordon Pike for sustained outstanding commitment and exceptional service to the Materials Research Society for many years. "Pike has provided uniquely broad and effective leadership in almost every aspect of the Society" said Roberto. After serving as a symposium organizer for the 1981 MRS Fall Meeting, Pike cochaired the 1983 Fall Meeting, and then became the lead co-chair of the group that implemented the first MRS Spring Meeting, a spin-off from the 1983 MRS Fall Meeting. Pike was elected MRS president in 1986, serving on the executive committee from 1985 through 1987, and as a councillor from 1989 through 1991. He has been a member of most MRS committees and has chaired the Program, Awards, Nominating, External Affairs, and Long-Range Planning Committees. He has been especially active in the External Affairs Committee, which he now chairs. In facilitating MRS's interaction with other organizations, Pike developed a set of procedures and policy guidelines for co-sponsoring meetings, and he intro-
duced the concept of meeting endorsement. He also created the affiliated organizations program to strengthen ties with other organizations that share common interests with MRS. Pike provided the impetus to structure and catalogue the mailing list database at MRS headquarters. Now including over 120,000 names, the database can successfully match suppliers of information, materials, and equipment with potential users in the materials community. The categories that Pike compiled with the help of many volunteers are now called the "Pike codes." Pike holds a BS in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in physics from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently acting manager of the Chemistry and Ceramics Department at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research contributions at Sandia span electronic properties of semiconductor grain boundaries, conduction in insulators, transport properties in heterogeneous materials, and processingproperty relationships of superconducting films on carbon fibers. The Woody Award is given informally to recognize outstanding volunteer service to
Gordon Pike (left), the most recent recipient of the Woody Award, is congratulated by its first recipient, Woody White.
MRS above and beyond normal expectations which has contributed to the success of the Materials Research Society. The name comes from the accomplishments achieved by C. W. "Woody" White during his MRS presidency in 1984. The award was presented to Pike at the MRS Council dinner during the 1991 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.
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