SAN ANTONIO – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ (SCTE) positive outreach to the cable telecommunications industry added a new dimension today as the SCTE board of directors voted to establish an SCTE Foundation.
The SCTE board cast the vote at its quarterly meeting held in conjunction with SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005, which begins today and is taking place through Friday, June 17 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.
The SCTE Foundation will serve three main purposes: “to (1) assist in innovation and education within cable and telecommunications engineering; (2) help further research and information of cable and telecommunications technology; and (3) help maintain a history and awareness of cable and telecommunications evolution.”
In today’s meeting, the SCTE Board approved the SCTE Foundation’s bylaws and policies and procedures. Set up under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, the SCTE Foundation will function with its own board of directors.
As part of the day’s business, the SCTE board of directors appointed the members of the SCTE Foundation board.
Those appointees are Keith Hayes, Adelphia Communications (4-year term); SCTE Treasurer and Region 4 Director Bob Macioch (2-year term), Time Warner Cable Southwest Division; SCTE Scholarship Subcommittee Chair Mike Phebus, NCTI (3-year term); and John Clark, SCTE president/CEO (4-year term). Others are expected to be named in the near future.
The SCTE Foundation is the handiwork of the 2004-’05 SCTE Planning Committee, one of the SCTE Board’s standing committees. The committee’s members were Yvette Gordon-Kanouff (chair), Ron Hranac, Dermot O’Carroll, Tom Elliot, Wes Burton, Les Read, Wendell Woody, Steve Allen, and Walt Ciciora.
