Back to Basics
According to my records, I began my Tutorial Projects Editor appointment by editing the "Back to Basics" column in 1976. Twenty years ago! Other projects for Materials Evaluation during that time include being a Coordinating Technical Editor for the April 1983 special topics issue on underwater NDT, spending some time as an Associate Technical Editor, and acting as the editor for "NDT Reply Line" as well as occasional feature articles.
You, the readers, have consistently rated the "Back to Basics" column as having the highest readership and recognition in surveys made over the past several years. This led to the publication in 1988 of NDT Basics, a 10-year anthology of selected articles from "Back to Basics." All of this, I believe, is because you, the readers, have also been the ones who have submitted the fine articles that have been published in "Back to Basics."
Well, so much for the nostalgia. I have only a minuscule backlog of papers at the moment. Has the well finally run dry? I think not. Possibly it has come about because I no longer make regular appearances at the ASNT fall and spring meetings. (My retired status allows me to attend only those meeting close to home.) Out of sight, out of mind? Possibly. That makes more sense than that the well of good articles has run dry.
That is why I am writing this personal request to you. Please send in that article that you have been intending to do for "Back to Basics." It may be just the thing that helps a lot of readers do or better understand the NDT that they are beginning or must work with from time to time. I will appreciate your submission as well.
Now, I will not promise to publish everything that I receive but I will promise to help you with editing and rewrite or transfer to one of the other column slots in Materials Evaluation, should your article fit better elsewhere. Thanks for your excellent help in the past and thanks for what I expect you will do in the future. Remember, you are the future.
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