RISK newsletter:
Froebe, Hakkinen, Strauss To Receive SRA's Outstanding Service Award

Larry Froebe is recognized for his work on several major projects of the SRA Southern California Chapter. In 1990 he founded the chapter's newsletter, Risk Resources, and served as its first editor. The following year he served on the organizing committee of the first Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management conference (PSAM-I), which began as a chapter project. In addition, he has served as a chapter councilor and as the president (1995-96), initiating the Building Bridges and the Collaborating Organizations programs that united the chapter with other organizations.

On the national level, Froebe's proposals have resulted in several promotional tools, including the SRA meeting banner, podium drape, and paperweight appreciation gift.

Based in Irvine, California, Froebe specializes in human health risk assessments for environmental decision making.

Bert Hakkinen, an SRA charter member, is honored for his work as a key organizer of major projects of the SRA Ohio Chapter, the SRA Exposure Assessment Specialty Group, and the national Society. He has served as president and councilor of the Ohio Chapter and worked with other members (particularly key members Steven D. Lutkenhoff and Ronald J. Marnicio) to launch the chapter's RiskWare '90 exhibit and to organize a symposium on risk resources on the Internet for the 1995 SRA Annual Meeting in Hawaii. RiskWare '90 brought together users and creators of risk analysis software and databases and led to similar exhibits at SRA annual meetings.

One of Hakkinen's major contributions to the SRA Exposure Assessment Specialty Group was proposing the idea for a reference and textbook on residential exposure assessment. He serves on the editorial board of the resulting Residential Exposure Assessment Project (see story).

Hakkinen is a senior scientist in toxicology and risk assessment at the Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati and a lecturer on exposure and risk-related topics at the University of Cincinnati.

Harlee Strauss is recognized for her work in promoting and developing the SRA New England Chapter. While serving as the chapter's 1991-92 president, she was one of the first in the Society to see the need for a local chapter newsletter to stay in contact with members unable to attend meetings, to promote the organization, and to maintain a historical record of activities. She launched the chapter's newsletter "Back of the Envelop" in August 1991 and went on to serve as editor for the next four years.

On the national level, Strauss has served as a member of the Management Committee of SRA's Residential Exposure Assessment Project since 1993, and she was a member of the Advisory Committee for the SRA Workshop "Key Issues in Carcinogen Risk Assessment Guidelines" in 1992.

Strauss is the founder and president of the consulting practice H. Strauss Associates Inc. in Natick, Massachusetts.