Updated 15 August 2010

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Thanks to all the great SAME volunteers who helped with the Rebuilding Together project on Saturday, May 1.  Participation this year was phenomenal and SAME members can once again be proud of the contributions to the SAME/Tinker Civil Engineering Rebuilding Together team!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional photos can be found here.

Several Oklahoma City Post members have already joined the SAME "LinkedIn" group in order to "link in" to items of interest to the entire SAME membership worldwide, including job posting information.

All Oklahoma City Post SAME members are welcome to "link in" also!

Please note that some public agencies, including Tinker AFB, block the LinkedIn web site because of its "social networking" category—therefore, you may have to "link in" from your home in order to access LinkedIn if you are unable to do so at work!  Yes, LinkedIn joins the many means of networking available to us in this digital/electronic era, but is specifically geared to the business community!

To sign up, you can go to www.linkedin.com, or a quicker way is to click or type in the following longer hyperlink directly to the SAME group and then either log in directly or follow the link to sign up first if you have never done that before on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2633.

Photos taken at the National Society of American Military Engineers/Joint Engineer Training Conference Honors Luncheon in Atlanta for receipt of the Top  2009 Medium Post Award for the Oklahoma City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers, May 5, 2010, with Oklahoma City Post sustaining member representatives attending the conference joining 2010 Post President Jeff Kindschuh and 2009-2010 National President Lt General Robert Van Antwerp.

Accepting the award on behalf of the OKC Post were representatives from Benham/SAIC [Don Ritenour], Cyntergy [Robert Day, Ken Hirshey, and Kathy Smith] Key Construction [Shane Faurot], C.H. Guernsey and  Company [Josh Dougherty], and The ASSET Group [Jennifer Fogg]).  From left to right:  Don Ritenour, Robert Day, Ken Hirshey, Jeff Kindschuh, Kathy Smith,  Shane Faurot, Josh Dougherty, Jennifer Fogg, and Lt General Robert Van Antwerp.

The Oklahoma City Post was chosen Top Medium Post for 2009 out of 36  medium-sized posts throughout the world for distinguished performance.  The  Oklahoma City Post was specifically recognized for actively supporting K-12  and college initiatives in the community by awarding scholarships, supporting local engineering competitions, and sponsoring attendance of four high-school students at various engineering camps throughout the country.

On July 24, 2010, the Oklahoma State

Board of Licensure for Professional

Engineers and Land Surveyors held a

reception to celebrate the Board’s 75th

anniversary, along with a certificate

presentation ceremony for newly

licensed professional engineers and

professional land surveyors.  The

reception was held at the Phillips

Pavilion at the Governor’s Mansion. 

Robert Zahl, PE, Chairman of the Board,

welcomed the attendees and introduced

the various speakers.  Kathy Hart,

Executive Director, presented a brief

history of professional engineer/professional land surveyor licensure in the US and in Oklahoma, including spotlighting some notable historical licensees from the Board’s archives.  George T. Gibson, PE, presented a message to the new licensees.  Mark A. Fuller presented a gubernatorial commendation to the Board on behalf of Governor Brad Henry, after which the new professional engineers and professional land surveyors were recognized and received their certificates.

 

Michael Moe, PE, OKC Post Outreach/Communications Chair, represented SAME’s OKC Post at the ceremony, along with his wife Beverly.  Representatives from many other State engineering and land surveying societies also attended the reception.