Pacific Northwest Chapter (and Section)

The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Section was the first to be formed, in 1962. With the introduction of the new AVS organizational structure in 1971, the PNW Section became both the PNW RAG and the PNW Chapter. The RAG included Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. The Chapter has continued to represent members in this area since 1971. Alaska was added in 1999.

The web page provides a short introduction with listing of the current officers and future events.

The Chairs of the Section and Chapter were:

* resigned during term.

Past Events

1965

November 19: Talks by T. Vanderslice, Tom Batzer and Leon Maissel as well as five discussion panels, and a tour of Boeing,

1966

Bi-monthly meetings were held.

March 4: visit to Oregon Metallurgical Corp. bi-monthly talks, November 18: talk on “Engineering with glass” at Boeing.

1967

May 4-5: 6^th spring symposium, Albany, OR. 15 graduates of a Vacuum Technology course taught by Willis Aschoff were special guests at the symposium, which had 54 members in attendance.

???: There were 120 attendees at the annual meeting

1968

A program initiated by the Section and largely directed by TEl IKI was well underway. The program was a graduate level vacuum science and technology course series offered by Portland State College. The series was organized and presented by Section members, other AVS members and other scientists and engineers. The first part of the series was presented to about 50 students during the spring session at Portland State College.

1969

January 17: Albany, OR

March 21: Tri-City Area, Eastern Washington

May: Annual Meeting,.

19??

September 10-12, Annual Symposium with vendor exhibit in Portland. The course program consisted of a 3-day course “General Vacuum Technology” (Bill Brunner), and 1-day course on  “Vacuum Cleanliness and Contamination Control” (R F Meeks), “Surface Science” (A. Joshi),  and “Overview of Thin Film deposition and etching techniques” (J. Vossen)

1981

June 10-12: Course program:  a  3-day course “General Vacuum Technology”,  and 1-day courses on “Surface analysis”, “Contamination Control Techniques”,  and “Adhesion Aspects of Thin Films”

1982

May 3-7: Portland Hilton, Annual Meeting and AVS spring course program: courses to be offered were listed in January 1982 issue of the AVS Newsletter; there was  one 5-day course “Vacuum Technology”, one 2-day course “Sputter Deposition”, and eight 1-day courses.

1983

May 4-6, Annual Meeting at Nendel’s Inn, Portland. The course program included a 3-day “Vacuum Technology” (Bill Brunner), and “Overview of Thin Film deposition and etching techniques” (J. Vossen)

1984 or 1985

May 3-4: Annual Meeting: Nendels’ Inn, Corvallis. Courses were given.

1985

The AVS Board met in Portland and there was an outing to Mount St. Helens.

1986

January 9 : Seminar on “Surface Spectroscopies & GaAs Technology” at Simon Fraser Univ in Burnaby, B.C. Four courses were also given.

Annual symposium co-sponsored by SILI-CON, was held at the Red Lion Hotel, Portland. Courses were given.

1987

October 12-13: the “Portland International Conference and Exposition  on Silicon materials & technology”, was held at Red Lion Hotel, Portland. Courses were given

1990

June 4-8, 9 short courses were attended by 110 registrants at the Airport Red Lion Hotel, Seattle.

September 8: Symposium at Simon Fraser Univ in Burnaby, B.C.

(NB In advertising a meeting in 1990, the term Section was used, 20 years after it had been abandoned!)

1992

September 9-12: Annual symposium in  Richland, WA, with a vendor exhibit and 3 courses. A $100 award was given for the best student presentation.

1994

September: Annual symposium at McMenamins Edgefield Manor, Troutdale, OR. This was the first meeting at the site and the course instructors had an interesting time since the courses started before the symposium.  Bill Brunner taught in the cinema and the audio-visual arrangements were “interesting”; Bill Westwood remembers balancing a projector on a kitchen tray supported on two chairs! The Manor had been a “Poor Farm” which had been renovated and an artist had run riot on painting faces and figures on all the structures, including water pipes. The course registration room was in a separate small building, which had been the morgue!  The light level in the main building was “low” and, with the paintings on the walls, were considered “very spooky” by the New York staff; during dinner, in the very good restaurant, Marion Churchill and Yvonne Towse decided that they would feel more comfortable sharing a room! Most of the instructors found accommodation elsewhere! The Manor did have a brewery, however, which may have been the attraction to the local organizers!

1995

September 15-16: Annual symposium at McMenamins Edgefield Manor, Troutdale, A $100 award was given for the best student presentation.  There were 80 vendors in the exhibit. There was a student job fair and a course program.

The Chapter was profiled in the Sept/Oct issue of the AVS Newsletter. After a decline in activity in the early 1980’s when Boeing were cutting back staff,  the Chapter had revived by 1990 and had 200 members. A feature of the annual symposium was now the Texas barbecue which Bill Rogers organized. He hauled the barbecue unit behind his truck from Seattle to the Manor. This has continued to be a feature of the annual symposium since 1994.

1996

September  Annual symposium at McMenamins Edgefield Manor, Troutdale,

1997

September 15-19: Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Edgefield Manor, Troutdale,

1998

June 16-19: 10^th annual symposium  & Surface Analysis’98, Richland, WA

Sept 14-18: Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Edgefield Manor, Troutdale

1999

September 13-17: Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland. Course program. The site was also “interesting” for the instructors; one course was taught in the gymnasium.

2000

September 14- 15: 11^th Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Grand Lodge, Forest Grove, OR. This was another “challenge” for the course instructors because the weather was unseasonably hot and the upper floor meeting rooms had no air conditioning. The choice was to keep cool(er) with the high power fans, which were provided, or to be heard by the students!

2001

September 20-21: Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Grand Lodge, Forest Grove, OR

2002

Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Grand Lodge, Forest Grove, OR

2003

Annual symposium and Equipment Exhibition at McMenamins Edgefield Manor, Troutdale, OR

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