In Memoriam: Jim Cathey

摘要

With sadness, the electrical engineering community learned that Professor Jim Cathey from University of Kentucky, Editor-in-Chief for more than a decade of Electric Power Components and Systems, passed away in February. We join the family in grief for the irreparable loss. Observing time and time again how short our lives are, we should ask ourselves every so often how we spent it. Did we do enough good for the family and for the wider community to which we belong? In answering this question, we should adjust our trajectory in this world, for as long and as much as we can, based on virtue and talent, as Thomas Jefferson would say if he were still here with us. If Aristotle was right in defining happiness as "when you can develop freely your predominant talent," then Jim Cathey was happy.