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October, 2003, Charleston South Carolina
If any active member has "sage" status in CMH-17, it would be Peter Shyprykevich. I couldn't even find anyone that could tell me the year that Peter started, but I'm guessing it was around 1983. Peter introduced me to the group back in about 1990.
When I go around the country and mention that MSC has a relationship with CMH-17, I frequently get the response "when will that thing be done?" A bit like a movie that I saw with Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel, and the pope repeatedly asking over the years "when will it be done", and Michelangelo answering "when it is done". Peter has taken a unique approach to his responsibilities at CMH-17. He finishes things. Peter was chair of a joining working group for several years. The group accomplished its planned outline, and then disbanded itself. Peter then took on a Supportability Working Group. Under his leadership, this group has been steadily filling out its outline, and may soon work itself out of a job.
Beyond being a working group chairman, Peter was active in the Guidelines Working Group, and has contributed to the statistics methodology used in the handbook. If you listen to the current debates on allowables methods, you will hear frequent references to the "Shyprykevich method". This refers to a technique of pooling data to obtain a more statistically stable sample.
It gives me personal pleasure to present Peter with CMH-Handbook-17's Distinguished Service Award.