At the recently held meeting of the ASTM Board of Directors in Seoul, South Korea, it was decided that Katharine E. Morgan, current ASTM Vice President of Technical Committee Operations will succeed ASTM President James A. Thomas. To ensure a smooth transition for ASTM’s members and customers, Morgan will assume the position of ASTM Executive Vice President on March 1, 2015. She will work closely with Thomas during a time of transition up to his retirement on February 1, 2017. ASTM, founded in 1898 as the American Section of the International Association for Testing and Materials, predates other standards organizations such as BSI (1901), DIN (1917), ANSI (1918) and AFNOR (1926).
