Farewell to Pumps & Systems
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010“I want you to take this course—Centrifugal Pump Assembly and Repair,” our publisher Wally Evans said in September 2006 at the Mid-Atlantic Pump & Process Equipment Symposium in Aston, Penn. At the time, I was a somewhat shy English graduate student. I was barely a month into my job as Assistant Editor of Pumps & Systems, and I already had to disassemble and reassemble a centrifugal pump. Needless to say, I was concerned.
When I started in August 2006, I could not properly pronounce the word centrifugal, but during that course in September, I hammered that pump with the best of them. (Luckily, I had two extremely patient engineers at my table who told me which side of the hammer to use.) P&S Editorial Advisory Board member and Geiger Smith-Koch President Henry Peck invited me to return to the Symposium in September 2008 to take the course again and get my “Master’s” in Centrifugal Pump Assembly and Repair. While thankfully no one has ever had to depend on my ability to assemble or disassemble a centrifugal pump, both experiences were invaluable while working with our authors on the practical, hands-on articles that we strive to include in each issue of Pumps & Systems.
The Centrifugal Pump Assembly and Repair course is just one of the many memorable experiences I have had while working as Assistant Editor and then Managing Editor of Pumps & Systems. Most recently, I have also had the privilege of working as Editor of our new publication Upstream Pumping Solutions. On both magazines, I have had the opportunity to speak with countless people in the industry about what issues they encounter daily and what matters most in the field. I hope this feedback shows in both P&S and Upstream Pumping Solutions and that both magazines have proven useful to our readers.
I have now made the difficult decision to leave Pumps & Systems and Upstream Pumping Solutions to take on the next challenge in my career. I am immensely grateful for the opportunities I have had, the knowledge I have gained and the people with whom I have worked. Most especially, I am grateful that for the past four years, I have been able to serve our loyal readership. I wish everyone the best of luck in the future.
Best regards,
Alexandra Ferretti

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