E.R.S. EXECUTIVE

President: Alden Bryant, M.A.

Acting Treasurer: Alden Bryant, M.A.

Secretary: Cynthia Johnson

Executive Director: Glen A. Frendel

Board of Directors

In Loving Memory of our Comrade and Friend: FRED WOOD.

Obituary: Frederick Bernard Wood (12/17/17-3/29/06)

Frederick Bernard Wood, of Flagstaff, AZ, born December 17, 1917, in
Sacramento, CA, died March 29, 2006, at age 88 of a heart attack, at his
home in Flagstaff.

During World War II, Dr. Wood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Radiation Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, where he helped develop
the SCR-584 microwave radar used by U.S. and Allied military forces in
defeating the Axis Powers, and on other projects. His MIT work was carried
out under the auspices of the White House Office of Research andDevelopment.
He then returned to the University of California at Berkeley where he
worked at the UCB Radiation Lab and earned the Doctor of Philosophy Degree
in Electrical Engineering.

In 1952 he joined IBM Corporation where he worked until 1980 as a
systems engineer, mostly in research and advanced systems development, in
San Jose and Los Gatos, CA.

He was a lifelong advocate and practitioner of the system sciences.
In 1954 he was a founding member of the Society for General Systems Research
(now known as the International Society for the Systems Sciences). He
presented scientific papers throughout the United States and in Toronto,
London, and Budapest, among others, and participated in study missions to
Russia and Cuba.

Dr. Wood was also founder and President of the Computer
Social Impact Research Institute of San Jose, CA, and officer of the Earth
Regeneration Society of Berkeley, CA.

He was also a long-time advocate of socially responsible use of science
and technology, and especially computer technology, and published a series
of working papers called “Communications Theory in the Cause of Man”.
He focused on global climate change beginning in the mid-1980s, and
then on advanced electromagnetic applications beginning in the early
1990s—including potential new energy devices that could produce energy from
the active physical vacuum (or quantum vacuum) more cleanly and cheaply than
fossil fuel energy sources.

In recent years, he continued his early focus on factors important to
the survival of modern civilization and democratic societies.
He was a life-long member of the Unitarian-Universalist religion and
associated with Unitarian churches in Boston, Berkeley, San Jose, and most
recently Flagstaff.

Dr. Wood was married to the late Elizabeth Mead Wood. He is survived
by two sons, Frederick Bruce Wood of Arlington, VA, and Peter Mead Wood of
Portland, OR; daughter-in-law Erica F. Wood of Arlington, VA; three
granddaughters Jessica Mead Wood, Rebecca Walton Wood, and Melissa Alice
Wood; and two cousins Ruth Satterthwaite Hartmann of Bethesda, MD, and
Camilla Satterthwaite Munson of Seattle, WA.

His memorial service took place at 1:00 pm on Saturday April 15,
2006, at the Flagstaff Unitarian Fellowship, 510 North Leroux Street,
Flagstaff, AZ.

In lieu of flowers, charitable contributions may be made to: New
Energy Movement; International Society for the Systems Sciences; and
American Friends Service Committee.

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Farewell from Alden Bryant:

Fred was the closest man friend in my life, from about 1953 onwards. We
shared a kind of total understanding -- personal lives, family, aspirations,
hopes, work, travels, how to handle organizational matters -- starting in
Berkeley before he and the family moved to San Jose.

His sweetness and kindness are shown in a story he told me from the fire in
Berkeley in 1923, how a woman living near campus, at the edge of the fire,
sat on her roof with the hose running, refused to move when the firemen
ordered her to leave, and saved her home!

Fred was my guide and inspiration through the years, first in the Society
for General Systems Research, nationally and internationally (climate
section), and then the Earth Regeneration Society (incorporated in 1983).
Our deeply understood relationship included the December 1988 meeting in the
United Nations in New York, from which came the Rio Summit of the U.N. and
the climate treaty in 1992.

Also the Climate Stabilization and EarthRegeneration Act of 1992 in the
U.S. Congress, plus action by an AFL-CIO National Convention to include "climate, food and jobs."

I am 83 now and will continue in the life Fred and I sensed, as long as I am
breathing. My love to Fred's family and friends. Adios Fred.