Tribute to John Meredith
IEEE Pikes Peak Section Meeting & Tribute to Navy Veteran & 2007 IEEE*USA President John Meredith
A Great Leader Who Builds & Motivates Other Leaders
During September 2018, Professor Santiago will Chair for the IEEE Pikes Peak Section with John Meredith as Vice Chair starting in 2019. As a long-term strategic plan, Professor John Santiago was going to handle the outreach community programs to educate parents and their kids emphasizing what engineering and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is all about. John Meredith will handle setting up the technical session activities. The partnership was planned as a team effort. John Meredith set up the following first IEEE technical session held at CTU while Professor Santiago hosted and handled the local logistics:
IEEE Pikes Peak Section Two-Part Meeting, September 27. Part 1: Cybersecurity: Threat and Risk Management and Part 2: “The President’s Forum” – A Three-Hour Live Video Conference with the IEEE President, Jim Jefferies and senior leadership. Key topics for Part 1from the presenter, Michael G. Semmens include: the nature of cyber threats, priorities for cybersecurity & the national cyber exchange.
After Professor Santiago completed the Manitou Incline on 26 September 2018, he found that John Meredith, died that same day. Unknown to Professor Santiago, John Meredith has been suffering a blood infection during the past eleven days. Two weeks before John Meredith died what was planned as a family event, the blood infection started. Also, before John Meredith left for his planned family event, one of the last request by John Meredith to Professor Santiago was to take a group photo of the Cybersecurity Meeting. Professor Santiago honored his request with the photo shown below. Before the presentation started, a 1-minute moment of silence was given and a short video clip of John Meredith was shown offering best wishes to IEEE 125th Anniversary in 2008. The planned meeting proceeded as John Meredith would have wanted.
Information about John Meredith used with permission by his wife, Lorraine.
Because this page cannot display a digital flipbook testimonials and YouTube videos, a 37-second video on John Meredith Wishing IEEE A Happy 125th Anniversary in October 2008, and a Flag Folding Ceremony and Presentation can be found at http://careered.libguides.com/ctu/engineering/ieee#s-lg-box-20136234.
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