C.C.B.E 2012 September 20, 21, 22, 23
Horseshoe Resort Barrie, Ontario, Canada

They say true friends show themselves in tough times. We'll the last couple of years have been tough, and we at the CCBE have discovered who our true friends are...pretty much the same people they have always been, along with a couple of new ones we've picked up along the way.

This past 2011 C.C.B.E was our 60th anniversary and proved true the old saying that practice makes perfect! Collectively we may not be the most creative group of people you'll come across, but we've found something that serves our membership well and we are clever\lazy enough to stick with it. From Thursday's Work Shops to Saturday night's steaks and Sunday's membership meeting everything seem to run without a hitch. Even Saturday's weather was close to ideal, and while we may not have control over the weather, I've learned from successful corporate executives everywhere to not let that stop me from taking credit for something others view as a success.

I find myself impressed with the loyalty and commitment our sponsors exhibit each year with their contributions to our annual conference. Although there has been a slight increase in our registration fees over the past couple of years, the monies contributed by our sponsors cover the vast majority of the costs incurred to put on our conference and without their generous and reliable support our conference would fade from memory as fast as a David Spade movie.

I also know from personal experience that it is getting harder for attendees to get time off and get the funding required to make the trek out to Horseshoe Valley each fall. While many corporations talk the talk about their employees being their core asset, it seems in tough economic times investing in technical employees becomes harder to justify. So while there are sacrifices and difficulties for attendees to overcome in order to attend our conference, free food and the Vendor suites go a long way to salve wounds incurred from extended periods of time on knees in the GM's office.

So a big thank-you to everyone who was able to attend this years CCBE conference. It was a special year for the CCBE as we celebrated our 60th anniversary. Our anniversary seemed to inspire a few trips down memory lane with everything from a terrific article in Broadcast Dialogue by Trevor Joice dedicated to CCBE's long history and many of the people who were involved in it's early days to Howard Christensen's Keynote address which spent some time looking back at the history of Broadcast Dialogue, the CCBE, and our industry as a whole.

As special as our membership is as a whole, it's not easy for anyone to standout from the group. Congratulations again to Martin Marcotte, winner of the Rhode and Schwarz Engineering Excellence Award, Ron Paley our Bob Norton Ambassador of the Year, Robert “Bob” Latreille for his lifetime Achievement Award, and Nathaniel Deshpande winner of the McCurdy Bursary. I hope they all enjoy basking in their awards. I also hope our more seasoned membership will avoid telling Nathaniel what's in store for him for the next few decades so he can live the dream a little longer.

How is it that the CCBE Conference still maintains it relevancy 60 years after some brave souls attempted the first one? From the vendors perspective, our wise supporters have learned a fundamental lesson of business and that is advertising works, targeted marketing works better and targeted marketing coupled with free food and alcohol is almost evilly efficient at moving product.

From the attendees perspective, the format of the conference targets the one thing that keeps many of us returning to work each day despite accountants and managers of other departments. The one thing that never seems to get old is the innate satisfaction of learning new things. Whether it’s learning about the details of a new technological advance or of the products that deliver the technology, learning is satisfying. Maintaining old friendships and making new ones while learning new things is almost decadently enjoyable.

Speaking of history, learning and having fun, if you can be in the area, The Hammond Museum of Radio is having an Open House for broadcast professionals between 2pm and 5pm on December 3, 2011. The museum is located 595 Southgate Road Guelph, Ontario. You can find more information at http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org . It'll give you one more thing to talk about at the 2012 conference.

Just before I sign off I'd like to send out a quick “Get Well Soon” wish to one of our past presidents, Paul Firminger. Paul had a small issue that required him to lie down for the better part of the day and watch TV. Unlike myself, Paul viewed this as a situation that needed correction and is now recuperating from the appropriate procedure. I hope he recovers by next September as we need him up and about so we can put him to work at next years conference.

See you then,

Lorne Anderson
Membership Chair
C.C.B.E.

Executive for 2010

Title	Name	Email	Picture
President	Larry Keats	larry@ccbe.ca
Vice President	Peter Warth	peter@ccbe.ca
Treasurer/Secretary	Denis Barriault	denis@ccbe.ca
Membership	Lorne Anderson	lorne@ccbe.ca
Papers Chair	Rob Edgley	rob@ccbe.ca
Sponsorship	Gary Hooper	gary@ccbe.ca
Registration	Joanne Firminger	joanne@ccbe.ca
Past President	Terry Kelly	terry@ccbe.ca
Publicity/Web Master	David Storey	dave@ccbe.ca
Papers-CoChair	Harrie Jones	harrie@ccbe.ca

Every Year the C.C.B.E. Seeks nominations of individuals for the following four Awards.

An Email address has been set up to allow you to send your nominations for one of these Awards. When sending your nominations include a brief history of the individual being nominated and why you think they should be considered the eligibility of the individual being nominated.

To Nominate some one for one of the awards send your email to AWARDS

AWARD REQUIREMENTS

Bob Norton Ambassador of the Year:
An Ambassador is a diplomatic minister of the highest order. The Ambassador Award recognizes the individual, who through efforts, other than that of Engineering achievment, contributed to the prestige and honor of the Broadcast Engineering Industry. This award recognizes the skill of communicating.

The Rohde & Schwarz C.C.B.E. Engineering Excellence Award:
The Rohde & Schwarz C.C.B.E. Engineering Excellence Award is awarded to an individual that has displayed a high standard of accomplishments in Canadian Broadcasting, identify outstanding engineering achievements for that year.

C.C.B.E. Lifetime Achievment Award:
is given to an individual who made outstanding contributions to the Broadcast Community in their life. In order to be eligible, candidates must have made innovative contributions which had an impact on the way electronic systems are being designed. The goal of granting the award is to make the excellent work done by people working within the scope described above more widely known and to help to publicize results.

George McCurdy Bursary Award:
The McCurdy Bursary Award is given to an up and coming Broadcast Technologist/Technician/Engineer that has displayed to his/her peers the ability to go beyond that which is expected of a new technical student working toward a career in Broadcasting.

 

 

Year	Past President's	Year	Past President's
1951	G.Robitalle H.Potter R.Turnpenny	1952	G.Robitalle
1953	G.Robitalle	1954	W.Baker
1955	B.Cook	1956	S.Day
1957	S.Day	1958	B.Onn
1959	B.Onn	1960	D.Duffield
1961	G.Ballantyne	1962	G.Ballantyne
1963	E.Mott	1964	L.Gilbeau
1965	N.Farr	1966	B.Marchand
1967	G.Jones	1968	G.Roach
1969	J.Thompson	1970	R.Baker
1971	B.Nunn	1972	B.Post
1973	G.Bowden	1974	B.Verway
1975	D.Duffield	1976	J.Smith
1977	G.Hinz	1978	A.Reeve
1979	A.Reeve	1980	J.McIntyre
1981	L.Cameron	1982	J.Guy
1983	P.Firminger	1984	P.Firminger
1985	T.Joice	1986	T.Joice
1987	J.Mercer	1988	J.Mercer
1989	T.Young	1990	T.Young
1991	B.Carnegie	1992	B.Carnegie
1993	M.Germain	1994	M.Germain
1995	R.Latreille	1996	R.Latreille
1997	G.Hooper	1998	G.Hooper
1999	D.Storey	2000	D.Storey
2001	H.Jones	2002	H.Jones
2003	H.Jones	2004	H.Jones
2005	T.Kelly	2006	T.Kelly
2007	T.Kelly	2008	T.Kelly
2009	L.Keats	2010	L.Keats
Year	Ambassador Award	Year	Ambassador Award
1988	Bob Norton	1989	Bill Holroyd
1990	Tom Pressley	1991	Doug Allen
1995	Doug & Jackie Loney	1996	Wayne Stacey
1998	Ab Nightingale	2000	Reg McCausland
2001	William Johnson	2002	Doug Allen
2003	Willy Renz	2004	Ian Schmidt
2005	Howard Christenson	2006	Jim Adamson
2007	Trevor Joice
Year	Bob Norton Ambassador	Year	Bob Norton Ambassador
2008	Eugene Johnson	2009	Bob Burger
2010	Sylvia Fantin
Year	Engineer of the Year	Year	Engineer of the Year
1983	Stue Clark	1984	Scott Read
1985	Clive Eastwood	1986	Warren Parker
1987	Ron Turnpenny	1988	Austin Reeve
1989	Peter Paczynski	1990	Reg McCausland
1991	Trevor Joice	1992	Francois Conway
1993	Bill Onn	1994	Steve Edwards
1995	Jim Mercer	1998	Gus Sondermeyer
1999	Garry Hooper	2000	Ray Carnovale
2001	Paul D. Edgley	2002	Wally Lennox
2003	Bruce Cowan	2004	Peter Warth
2005	Lou Montana	2006	Ron Weller
Year	Rohde & Schwarz Engineering Excellence	Year	Rohde & Schwarz Engineering Excellence
2006	Kyle Clouthier	2007	Jacques Letourneau
2008	John Coldwell	2009	Richard Sondermeyer
2010	Ed Yiu
Year	George McCurdy Award	Year	George McCurdy Award
1985	Brad Yenssen	1986	Ralph Grohmann
1987	Joe Gurney	1988	Steve Quinn
1989	Perry Metaxas	1990	Cheryl Clark
1991	Owen Mekitarian	1993	Mathew MacDonald
1994	Marc Jean Lemieux	1995	Christopher McLaurin
1999	James MacMillan	2000	Shon Kelly
2001	Greg Harris	2002	Sam Petite
2006	Chris Dorota	2007	Josh Miller
2010	Brett Hancock
Year	Lifetime Achievment	Year	Lifetime Achievment
2006	Steve Edwards	2007	Doug Macaulay
2008	Wayne Stacey	2009	Jim Kippen
2010	Jack Hoeppner