Founding Member, Forty Year Member, Treasurer 1971-1972,Director 1969-1970,Symposium Local

Arrangements Chair 1959.

�

Paul A.RedheadMedard W.WelchAward

Lewis W. HullAVS President 1975

1975

Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1981,Clerk 1970-1971, Trustee, 1978-1981.Dorothy Hoffman was awonderfully friendly ladywith an iron will. She waselected AVS Clerk in1969 in, as she wouldput it, a two-man race(she derived the term“chair person” with thecomment that she was nota piece of furniture. Aftertwo years serving as Clerkshe was nominated asPresident-Elect in anothertwo man race. She left alarge bequest for the cre-ation of student awards.

�

Homer D.HagstrumMedard W.WelchAward

Dorothy M. HoffmanAVS President 1974

1974

Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1981,Treasurer, 1984-1998,Director 1972-1973,

Symposium Program Chair1972, Publications Chair1970-1973, Vacuum

Technology Division Chair1980-1981, TechnicalDirector 1992-1998.

�

LeslieHolland

Medard W.WelchAward

N. Rey WhettenAVS President 1976

1976

Honorary Member 1995,Director, 1970-1973,Publications Chair 1974-1975, Thin Film Division

Chair 1968.

�

Charles B.Duke

Medard W.WelchAward

Richard W. HoffmanAVS President 1977

1977

Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1981,Fellow 2000, Director,1972-1975, SymposiumProgram Chair 1974,

Education Committee Chair1970-1973, Vacuum

Technology Division Chair1976-1977.

�

Georg H.Hass

Medard W.WelchAward

�

Pierre A.AugerGaede-LangmuirAward

Leonard C. BeavisAVS President 1978

1978

Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1982,Fellow 1994, Director

1973-1976, Trustee 2003-2005, Medard W. WelchAward 1977, PublicationsChair 1977-1980, SurfaceScience Division Chair1972, Co-founder (withWilliam E. Spicer) of theElectronic Materials andProcessing Division. Dukeplayed a major role inAVS becoming a full member of AIP.

�

Gert EhrlichMedard W.WelchAward

Charles B. DukeAVS President 1979

1979

Honorary Member 1989,Director, 1977-1980,

Symposium Program Chair1976, Publications Chair1979-1984, Albert Nerken

Award 1985.Following Vossen’s deaththe John L. VossenMemorial Award wasestablished to recognizeand encourage the devel-opment of high school sci-ence experiments in theareas of interest to AVS.

�

ChristopherR. BrundlePeter MarkMemorialAward

�

DanielAlpertGaede-LangmuirAward

John L. VossenAVS President 1980

1980

Forty Year Member,Honorary Member 1998,Fellow 1993, Director,1978-1979, Medard W.Welch Award 1985,

Symposium Program Chair1986, Surface ScienceDivision Chair 1977, IUVSTA President 1992-1995, Awards Chair2007. The Theodore E.Madey Award for SurfaceScience and ScientificExchange was started

in 2011.

�

Lawrence L.KazmerskiPeter MarkMemorialAward

�

Harrison E.FarnsworthMedard W.WelchAward

Theodore E. MadeyAVS President 1981

1981

Director 1980-1981,Trustee 1987, SymposiumProgram Chair 1980, ThinFilm Division Chair 1979.After his sudden and pre-mature death, the John A.Thornton Memorial Award

was established.

�

Alfred H.SommerGaede-LangmuirAward

�

Charles W.McGeePeter MarkMemorialAward

John A. ThorntonAVS President 1982

1982

Forty Year Member,Director 1977-1978,Trustee 1979-1982,Gaede-Langmuir Award1988, Surface ScienceDivision Chair 1974,Electronic Materials andProcessing Division Chair

1982.

�

James ChadiPeter MarkMemorialAward

�

H. H.Weider

Medard W.WelchAward

John R. ArthurAVS President 1983

1983

� William E. Spicer,Co-founder (withCharles B. Duke) of theElectronic Materialsand ProcessingDivision, BoD 1979-1980, Trustee 1981-1983, Welch Award1984, Fellow 1994.

� Presentation

of the Gaede

-Langmuir

Award to Da

niel Alpert at

the AVS 27th

Annual

Symposium D

etroit, Michig

an, October 1

980.

(L to R) Doro

thy M. Hoffm

an, Daniel Al

pert.

� The Scholarship and AwardsCommittee was formed in 1975 toensure that all Society awards weremade without BoD influence. John Yates was one of the initialmembers and was Chair in 1978.In 1994 he was given the WelchAward. First Recipient of theTheodore M. Madey Award.

� Presentation of the WelchMedal to Charles B. Duke at the AVS 24thAnnual Symposium Boston, Masachusetts,November 1977. (L to R) Eric Kay, Charles B.

Duke, Richard W. Hoffman.

� Speakers at a special 30thanniversary session on the History ofVacuum Science and technologyorganized by W.C. Brown at the30th National Symposium inBoston, November, 1983.

� Presentation of the Welch Award to Harrison E.Farnsworth at the AVS 28th Annual Symposium,Anaheim, California, November 1981. (L to R)Susan D. Allen, Theodore E. Madey, Harrison E.

Farnsworth, John R. Arthur, Jr.

Reenactment of the Magd

eburg Hemispheres Expe

riment for the AVS 30th

Annual

Symposium, Boston, Mas

sachusetts, November 19

83. � Presentation of AVSHonorary Membership to Leonard C. Beavis at theAVS 28th Annual Symposium Anaheim, California,November 1981. (L to R) Leonard C. Beavis, WilliamD. Westwood, William E. Spicer, Susan D. Allen,Theodore E. Madey, John R. Arthur, Jr.

�

Presentationof WelchMedal toLeslie Holland, AVS 23rdAnnual Symposium, Chicago, Illinois,September 1976. (L to R) Leslie Holland, N. Rey Whetten, AVS President.

� Gaede-Langmuir Award Plaque.

�

Closeup of the Magdeburghemispheres specially designed and built forthe re-enactment at the 30th anniversary in Boston, together withsome of the organizers. (L to R) John J. Sullivan, Lawrence Bell of Boston’sMuseum of Science, and Theodore E. Madey.

� BoD Meeting, AVS 21st Annual Symposium, Anaheim, California, October 1974. Back Row (L to R)

Marsbed H. Hablanian, Charles B. Duke, Peter Mark, Leonard C. Beavis, Eric Kay. Front Row (L to R)

J. Roger Young, Lewis W. Hull, Dorothy M. Hoffman, N. Rey Whetten, Jack H. Singleton, Maurice H.

Francombe. Peter Mark was the fourth JVST Editor, serving from 1975 until his untimely death in 1979.

Roger Young was AVS Treasurer, 1973 to 1983.

� AVS 23rd Symposium, Chicago, Illino

is, October 1976. (Clockwise from L):

Patricia Bro

(Welch’s daughter), Luther E. Preuss, M

edard W. Welch, Kenneth C. D. Hickm

an, Mrs. Leslie

Holland, Leslie Holland, Homer D. Hag

strum, Paul A. Redhead, Kenneth Bro (W

elch’s son-in-

law), Gottfried K. Wehner. Medard We

lch provided the

funds for the Welch Medal, and was a

ccompanied by his

daughter and son-in-law. Luther Preuss w

as deeply involved

in the original negotiations between W

elch and the AVS,

in establishing the award. Welch recipi

ents present were:

Hickman (1972), Holland (1976), Hag

strum (1974),

Redhead (1975), and Wehner (1971)

.

� Marion Churchilljoined the AVS staff asMeeting Manager, priorto the 1981 AnnualSymposium. Churchillretired in 2000.

Presentation of the Welch Medal to Gert Ehrlich at the AVS 26th Annual Symposium, New York, New York, October 1979. (L to R) Dorothy M.Hoffman, Gert Ehrlich, Charles B. Duke. �

� Gerald Lukovskybecame JVST Editorin 1980, and in 1983was appointed Editor-in Chief after the

Journal was published in two separateseries, A and B. Gerry retired as JVSTEditor in 2010.

� In May 1979, Marcia Schlissel

was hired to handle the increasing

course registration. Marcia

brought a new persona to AVS;

outside of AVS, she was a singer

in a band. In 1990 she left to

pursue this second career.

� Presentation ofthe first Peter Mark Awardto Christopher R. Brundle at the AVS27th Annual Symposium Detroit, Michigan, October 1980. (L to R) John L. Vossen, President, Christopher R. Brundle, Hans Mark (Peter's brother).

Celebrating 60 Years of Science & Technology • Years 1974-1983