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Lewis re-elected chair of National Lighting Bureau

Howard P. Lewis, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America’s (IES) representative to the National Lighting Bureau, has been elected to an unprecedented fourth consecutive term as bureau chair.

The National Lighting Bureau is an independent, not-for-profit, lighting-education foundation sponsored by professional societies, trade associations, manufacturers, utilities and agencies of the U.S. government.

Also re-elected were Vice Chair Cary S. Mendelsohn (Imperial Lighting Maintenance Company), representing the interNational Association of Lighting Management Companies (NALMCO), and Secretary/Treasurer James M. Yorgey, P.E., L.C., technical applications manager for Bureau Sponsor Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.

Lewis is the founder and chief technical officer of Lighting Alternatives (Parsippany, N.J.), a fluorescent-fixture manufacturer established in 2003. Before then he spent more than 30 years in lighting, with an emphasis on product manufacturing. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Franklin Pierce University (Rindge, N.H.) and is a member of the IES Progress Report Committee. He also is a past president of the IES Philadelphia Section and sits on its Board of Managers.

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