Mission Statement

One of the SVC's long-term goals has always been to support charitable, educational, and scientific activities. The SVC Foundation was established in July 2002 to help realize this goal.

As its first initiative, the Foundation created a scholarship program aimed at supporting enterprising students and practitioners who have an interest in furthering their education in the field of vacuum coating technology. Since its inception, this program has awarded over $70,000 in scholarships to students from the United States, Canada, China, Lithuania and Spain. In 2010 we expect to give out as many as five new scholarships.

We are striving to make a difference in the lives of our students; quoting a 2007 award recipient: "I receiving this scholarship is amazing; I thought I would never get it. Thank you for notifying me, and giving me this scholarship, which will allow me to continue doing research through next year".

Please continue reading about our activities in the following pages and learn how you can get involved in supporting the mission of the SVC Foundation.

Our Board of Directors

John Felts, Chair (Board Term 2011)
Nano Scale Surface Systems, Inc.
(510)814-0340 Fax (510)814-0345
jfelts@ns3inc.com


Paolo Raugei, Treasurer, Vice Chair, and Scholarship Committee Co-Chair (Board Term 2012)
Galileo Vacuum Systems, Inc.
(678)691-5695 Fax (678)691-4935
praugei@att.net


Steve Sedlak, Secretary,
AIMCAL representative (Board Term 2014)
ESK Ceramics
(248)681-5235 Fax (248)681-5228
MetallizingSystems@comcast.net


Wolfgang Decker
SVC Board Representative, Special Events Co-Chair (Board Term 2013)
VAST FILMS, Ltd.
(724)827-8827 Fax (724)827-2020
w.decker@vastfilm.com


Bryant Hichwa (Board Term 2015)
SVC Board Representative and Scholarship Committee Co-Chair
Professor Emeritus, Sonoma State University and OCLI
(707)785-1922; Fax (707)785-1922 bhichwa@earthlink.net


Pamela T. Luecke, Special Events Co-Chair (Board Term 2015)
SVC Future Sites Chair
SAGE industrial sales, inc.
(605)578-1339; Fax (605)578-1224
pamluecke@aol.com


James W. Seeser, Fund Raising Committee Chair, past Chair
JDS Uniphase (Retired) (Board Term 2010)
(314)918-0160
jseeser@aol.com



PAST MEMBERS

John B. Fenn, Jr., Fund Raising Chair. Fennagain (Board Term 2009)
(818)888-8649 Fax(818)888-3543
email: johnfenn@earthlink.net


John Marcantonio, Secretary. Singulus Technologies, Inc. (Retired) (Board Term 2008)
(860)480-4001
email: ChathamJRM@aol.com


Traci Langevin

Tony Broomfield

Leon McCrary

Elizabeth Josepheson

Don McClure

A RECENT EMAIL FROM ONE OF OUR SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS:

Subject: Thank you SVC

Hi,
I am very thankful to SVC for the 2008 Scholarship award. This scholarship gave me the opportunity to attend such a wonderful technical conference which is not only a technical conference but a school where I learned a lot
from various talks and presentations. I took short courses/tutorials from the best experts in their fields. I congratulate SVC on organizing such a great conference. For a student, it's a blessing in the sense that not only it provides some financial support for the research but also provide the opportunities to meet with folks that are really expert in various fields. I have to say that I learned valuable knowledge in SVC conference2009 from the
discussions which one cannot find in books. Another thing that I noticed at the conference was the welcoming attitude of SVC folks and in particular to the students, which I appreciate, as a graduate student, very much. The exhibition at the conference was like a laboratory, where many experiments going on all the day and one can go to any stall of interest and learn. It was wonderful. I am impressed by the activity and will continue to keep contact with SVC in future.
Best regards
-Bakhtyar