Editorial

With this newsletter I would like to announce my retirement as editor. I will edit one more newsletter (the February one) but from fall 2006 editorship will be taken over by David Garfinkle, as per decision of the GGR executive committee. It has been 11 years since I started editing the newsletter and it was time for a change. We all wish David great success with the editorship.

Some news from the executive committee: we will put on the ballot a modification of the GGR bylaws to create the post of membership coordinator, as our membership continues to grow (we are now at 782 members!). We will also propose an amendment of a sloppy wording about the constitution of the nominating committee. The current bylaws state it will have three members and then go on to describe how to choose four (!) members. This year the committee is chaired by Bei-Lok Hu, helped by Joe Giaime (APS representative), Don Marolf and Nergis Mavalvala.

The next newsletter is due February 1st. All issues are available in the WWW:
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/mog
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If you think a topic should be covered by the newsletter you are strongly encouraged to contact the relevant correspondent. If you have comments/questions/complaints about the newsletter email me. Have fun.

Jorge Pullin