It was my privilege to watch Carol Bonar serve as ASET's Historian for the 20 years I was ASET's Executive Director. I say "watch" because Carol was a self-starter who never needed direction. Carol's tenure preceded and succeeded mine. She was a unique person and a memorable character. A hardworking technologist in a small Steubenville, Ohio, EEG lab, Carol volunteered for decades as ASET's Historian and official photographer at the annual meetings. She documented official Society business for the newsletter and Journal, and she captured attendees' experiences on film and occasional video. Carol created display boards of photos, and, with her husband Ron, she drove the accumulating collections to conference sites where she set up multiple display tables. Some years she created mementos for attendees, like an Oregon-shaped, wooden pin to commemorate the 1994 ASET meeting in Portland, Oregon. Carol took vacation time and personally covered the costs for her film and travel for many years. When the ASET meeting was held in Orlando in 1985, Carol and Ron camped nearby, and their campsite was robbed! Her life was not an easy one. She had multigenerational family obligations and tragedies. Yet, she found time to train technologists, to volunteer, and even babysit her EEG physician's children. Hardworking? Yes, extremely! Devoted? Absolutely! Cherished memories? Indeed.
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