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Figure 5: Solar cookers on display at the Phoenix “Sun at Work” exhibition, 1955

• The original Board of Directors of the Association included sixteen members, all leaders of business,
industry, agriculture and education and mostly from Arizona.
• The membership structure changed from time to time, but always included “collective” (corporate,
institutional) and individual. A student membership category was added eventually.
• AFASE Executive committee joined with Stanford Research Institute (SRI), to employ the AFASE Secretary
/ SRI Assistant Director John I. Yellott.
• AFASE offices were established in a Phoenix office building.

1956
• The first issue of the quarterly newsletter Sun at Work appeared in March 1956.
• Sun at Work Volumes I and part of II were edited by Guy Benveniste and Jean Jensen.
• AFASE librarian, Jean Jensen, with assistance from Maria Telkes and others, assembled a collection of some
5,000 solar energy items (including books, papers, periodicals, and patents).

1957
• A quarterly technical journal -- The Journal of Solar Energy Science and Engineering—later shortened to
Solar Energy – was established.
• Jean Jensen also became editor, assited by an Editorial Board. including Frank Edlin and others.
• AFASE launched the International Architectural Competition, in cooperation with the Phoenix Association
of Home Builders. 113 entries from 31 countries. The winning design, by Peter R. Lee, was built and in
1958 AFASE published a book titled, Living with the Sun, which included plans and drawings of sixty of
the entries in the competition.

Figure 6: Drawing of Peter Lee’s winning design for the AFASE solar house competition
• An Advisory Council had grown from the committees that oversaw the development of the first three
conferences/symposiums in Arizona.

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