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News for 2006

Check our 2008 Schedule of Programs for the latest events!

We are post-poning the August program to a date TBD!

Vital Partnerships:  Engineering and Biosafety - August 12th 2008 - Click here for more information and registration!


September 12th 2008 - Sail the Baltimore Harbor - September 12th, 2008 – from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm– Rain or Shine. SAME Baltimore and Fort Detrick Posts Young Members are hosting a sailing cruise aboard the Lady Maryland, [more]

Golf Tournament - September 19th, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. click here for more information and registration!

June 25th 2008 - "Contracting Opportunity"  (Presentation)

I want to cordially invite members of your organization to attend ASFE’s New Leaders Regional Meeting to be held in New York City on Friday, September 5, 2008.  We want to take this opportunity to invite your member-firms to an ASFE event at a local, low cost event that will allow you to be part of our one-day meeting and network with your local geotechnical, geosciences, and civil engineering peers. Click here for more information.


The SAME Ft. Detrick Post Young Members are inviting you to watch the Federick Keys take on the Potomac Nationals on Friday, 25 July 2008 (fireworks night).  Click here for more information!


 

 

 

 

2008 President’s Message

I would like to wish everyone a very happy new year.  This year promises to be better and more exciting than the last.  The holiday and new year’s season gives us an opportunity look at what we have done in the past year and set new goals for the coming year.

Here’s a quick recap of last year.  The post increased its membership from 31/19 to 79/92 individual/sustaining members respectively and we have 21 sustaining member firms.  As a result of this growth, we are now recognized as a medium post.  At the Joint Engineering Training Conference and Expo in May 2007, we were awarded three streamers for the quality of the programs that we provide to our membership.  On the financial end, we are becoming more capable of sustaining the scholarship program.  Last year, we held our 3rd annual scholarship dinner where we presented a scholarship check to Mr. George Balog while his parents looked on.  Our ability to support the scholarships is due in large part to the funds we raised during the 3rd Fort Detrick (FD) Post golf tournament.  I would like to thank Mr. Ed Niko, our golf tournament coordinator, the volunteers, and the sustaining member firms for their contributions.  

The FD Post also began a mentoring and education outreach program which is bound to bear fruit for years to come.  Working with the Walkersville High School teachers, we shared our professional experiences with students interested in engineering and judged their end of semester projects.  The year culminated with Dr Eaton, President of Frederick Community College, as our guest speaker at the Holiday party.  She provided great insight about training and educational opportunities.

This year, the FD Post will focus efforts in 3 major areas; sustainability training programs, quality professional development opportunities for our membership, and educational outreach.  We intend to build on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) workshop from last year by facilitating additional training and study groups for those interested in becoming LEED certified.  On the educational outreach front, we plan to send a student to one of the SAME engineer camps in addition to offering college students scholarships.  The deadline to submit an application for engineer camp and/or the FD post scholarship is 1 March and 1 April respectively!

We are looking for companies to support our “Engineer/Architect/Project Manager for a Day” by allowing local school students to shadow one of your employees for a day.  Please contact me if you or your firm can help.

Many thanks to all those folks that helped make last year a banner year.  I wish you and the Post the best in the months to come.

Donald Archibald, Fort Detrick Post President

 

 

 

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