The Lexington League is initiating its 2023-2024 First Friday series on Friday, October 6, 2023, with a forum on the expansion of hangars at Hanscom Air Field. It will be held at the Lexington
Community Center Dining Room, 39 Marrett Road, Lexington, at 9:30 AM. The guest speaker will be Neil Rasmussen, Concord resident and president of Save Our Heritage, a non-profit corporation engaged in protection of historical and natural resources in and around Concord, MA.
Rasmussen holds BS and MS degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering. He worked at the MIT
Lincoln Laboratory from 1979 to 1981, where he and two colleagues spun-off a startup company,
American Power Conversion (APC). Rasmussen holds 30 patents and has published over 60 papers related to power and cooling systems, many with a focus on the improvement of energy efficiency.
After APC was acquired by Schneider Electric, Inc. in 2015, Rasmussen stepped down to focus on
nonprofit work, including managing the Neil and Anna Rasmussen Foundation, of which he is
principal trustee. Rasmussen is currently facilitating research into the role of the human microbiome in disease, and recently founded the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT.
While the League of Women Voters is non-partisan with regard to parties and individuals, it supports or opposes policy positions after research and consensus among its members. The Lexington League has supported Lexington’s participation in the solution of problems associated with Hanscom Field (1978). It has opposed extension of Hanscom Field into a major airport and
supported maintenance of the 1973 level of general aviation there (1988).
This program is the first in the 2023-2024 First Friday Forum series hosted by the Lexington League of Women Voters to promote awareness and understanding of public policy issues. As always, it is open to the public and there will be time for Q&A. For more information go
to https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/lexington/calendar. First Fridays are a monthly forum
usually held on the first Friday of every month. Programs are presented on topics of importance to Lexington residents.

The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the principles of self-government established in the Constitution of the United States. The League works to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government. All League forums are free and open to the public. For more information about the League go to https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/lexington.