A career (to date) in electromagnetics [From the Historian]

I am pleased to offer this historical article by Carl Baum. I have known Carl since the early 70s, when much of the work described was in its early development stage. Indeed, it is interesting for me to note that Carl recommends reading the special AP issue published when I was editor of the Transactiom. During that publication period we were having great difficulty with page limtations (700-800 pages per year), and I had a stressful time with the article-length problem. It should be noted that our present journal is nearly double the volume allowed then. Several of us at the time made a plea to AdCom to expand the length to 1,000 pages!! This was soundly defeated, because of the fear that our finances would suffer greatly, and that this change was certainly too radical a step. Perhaps this page limitation problem spurred Carl on to further expand his Notes, a worthwhile and, certainly, a widely appreciated activity. In my opinion, the growth of our Socief in the past fifteen years is, in part, due to the edication of individuals such as Carl. WFC]