Abstract :
I have been very involved with IEEE student activities during most of the time that I have been a member of the IEEE — dating back to the fall of 1961 when I was a freshman at Ohio Northern University. Ohio Northern is very special in that it helped instill in its students a real need to actively belong to the IEEE and to develop professionalism via that route. Through my continuing involvement with the IEEE, I have been able to see, in many schools, the impact that an outstanding IEEE Student Branch can have on the morale and quality of an EE department. This same involvement has taken me all the way up to the highest office in the IEEE that relates to student members, Chairman of the Student Activities Committee (SAC).