James “Jim” Allen Bryan, an EASA Technical Support Specialist from June 2010 through February 2018, passed away at his home in Glen Carbon, Illinois, on Tuesday, April 12.

Bobby Powell, Kevin Krupp and Calvin Earp elected to EASA's Board of Directors.

Larry Fritz, 68, of Davey, Nebraska, passed away on March 13; and Denver J. Weigel, 81, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, passed away on April 6.

Sid Seymour of Seymour-Smith Electric Motor & Pump Service Inc. in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, will become EASA’s Chairman of the Board for the 2022- 23 administrative year. His term begins on June 28.

Olin Jobe, 83, of Riverview, Florida, passed away on January 29.

Linda Gladden has joined the EASA staff as Marketing & Communications Manager. Ms. Gladden is a communications leader with 19 years of experience building communications teams in the association and public pension arenas.

Robert “Bob” Gaddis, 70, of Hilton Head, South Carolina; and Roland Frank Harrison, 82, of Tuttle, Oklahoma.

View key findings and takeaway excerpts from the 2020 US Department of Energy (USDOE) Motor System Market Assessment Motor (MSMA). A longer longer version of the key findings and takeaways is also available for download as well as the complete 252-page 2020 MSMA Report.

Richard L. Dey, 77, of Rehoboth Beach, Deleware, passed away on Friday, February 26. He was the owner of Lockwood Electric in Trenton, New Jersey.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued rulemaking on test procedures for small electric motors for more than a decade. The present “final rule,” effective February 3, 2021, is the culmination of those efforts.

The United States Congress passed long-awaited energy legislation as part of the economic stimulus bill approved in late December 2020 (Division Z in the bill). The energy bill has two distinct areas that will affect EASA members.

EASA is sad to learn of the passing of Craig Hartman, Mary Horner, Mary Jean Parker Redmond, Martin Rigsbee, Sr., Wallace Snow and Bennie Joe Tomecek.

Tim Browne and Craig Milbank have been elected to EASA's International Board of Directors.

Bill Scarberry, 87, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, passed away on October 24, 2020.

Marvin “Bud” Thomas, 87, of Oelwein, Iowa, passed away Sunday, October 25, 2020.

August “Gus” Baechle, 89, of Ballwin, Missouri, passed away on October 17, 2020. He served as EASA’s Executive Vice President from 1961 until his retirement in 1996.

EASA has updated and replaced the interactive PDF version of this product with an online-only HTML5 version.

EASA’s International Board of Directors will meet on February 20, 2021. Members with questions or proposals should contact their regional director.

The mission of EASA is to help members enhance their performance and achieve greater levels of success. Trade press editors continue to hold our content in high regard and consider EASA "The Electro•Mechanical Authority." Trade media feature articles totaled more than 746,000 media impressions from August 1, 2019, to July 31, 2020. This is an increase of 10 percent over the prior year.

Harlen R. Fricke, 86, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, passed away on August 10. He was past owner of Electric Motor Repair, Inc. in Minneapolis and served as E ASA’s Chairman of the Board from 1987-1989.

Rodney Parker, 71, of Denver City, Texas, passed away on August 2.

The formal designation and full title for this standard that was published in April 2020 is, “CSA C392:20 Testing of Three-Phase Squirrel Cage Motors During Refurbishment.” This is the second edition of the standard and supersedes the previous edition published in 2011. The standard focuses on the identification of those tests that help to determine whether the efficiency of a motor is maintained after it is “refurbished,” without requiring a motor efficiency test.

John Allen represents EASA on the IECEx subcommittee related to IEC 60079-19, the repair standard for hazardous location motors and generators. Tom Bishop represents EASA on the maintenance team (subcommittee) for IEC 60079-1, which deals with manufacturing. The following report from John summarizes the highlights of his IECEx activities for the second half of 2019. The second part of his report will appear in next month’s issue.

EASA announces a limited time offer on “How to Wind Three-Phase Stators.” Purchase this interactive training tool for only $237US (40 percent off)!

Glenda Hoerner, 71, of Atascocita, Texas, passed away on March 29, 2020, in Kingwood, Texas.

View the results of survey that asked EASA members and members of 25 other associations to gauge the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite not gathering as a group in Nashville as we’d planned, EASA put together an event positioned to provide you with some of the value you would have gleaned at the EASA 2020 Convention.

Thursday, March 19, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay-at-home order for all Californians in response to the COVID-19 health crisis. This decree does, however, make exceptions for workers in federal critical infrastructure sectors.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to California small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

EASA is very pleased to announce that Matthew Conville, P.E., has joined EASA’s Staff as a Technical Support Specialist.