Charlie Spahr

Photoblogging from ICACC in Daytona Beach, Fla.

By Eileen De Guire / January 24, 2012

Some of the German delegation of participants in the first Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC. Thomas Fisher (third from left) was the principle organizer of the forum. The 36th…

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What Eileen saw behind the scenes at the Annual Meeting and MS&T

By Eileen De Guire / October 21, 2011

Because the Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society is held at MS&T, much of the Society’s business is conducted in committee and Division meetings. A few other things caught…

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A vibrant PACRIM9 ‘down under’

By Eileen De Guire / July 20, 2011

An aboriginal dance troupe teaching PACRIM9 attendees a few moves. Credit: ACerS Recently returned from Cairns, Australia, Charlie Spahr, ACerS executive director, reports that PACRIM9 was a successful, and distinctly…

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The business of doing business in the ceramics industry

By Eileen De Guire / June 29, 2011

Participants from the 2010 Ceramic Leadership Summit. Credit: ACerS The Ceramic Leadership Summit is about business – and the unique aspects of doing business in the ceramics industry. ACerS president,…

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Spahr elevated to be new ACerS exec; 30-year business veteran assumes new post in Society

By / October 18, 2010

Spahr About a week ago I wrote that the current executive director of ACerS, Scott Steen, would be leaving in mid-November to lead a forestry organization, and that the Society’s…

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