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2004 PROGRAM

SAME’S TULSA POSTNewsletter

The Society of American Military Engineers | www.same.org/tulsa | December 2004

Tulsa SAME December 2004 • Page 1

December 9thHoliday Party6:00 p.m.Location:

Petroleum Club of Tulsa601 South Boulder 15th Floor

Sponsor: ARCADIS

President’s LetterThis year nearly 1,000 members and guests attended and participated in our Post meet-

ings, Programs, Community Service Projects, Youth Outreach Opportunities and NationalSecurity Presentations. By the close of December, the Tulsa Post will have awarded $8,000 inscholarships as we continue to focus on mentoring and educating our membership and theyoung men and ladies of our community.

We took it over the top this year! When we set out to plant 200 trees for the Departmentof Wildlife in the Keystone floodplain, we planted 2,000 instead - in spite of fierce wether. Wecame to the aid of devestated Florida with a $1000 donation to the Red Cross and countleshours from our Sustaining Firms, Individual Members and CoE volunteers.

Our sustaining member agency, the Tulsa District USACE, deployed more civilians than anyother District - voluntarily. We brought City, State, and Federal agencies together in severalforums for the betterment of our community. We not only continued to support theEngineering Camp through Post finances, but we dug deep into our own pockets, as the emer-gency call for mentors was answered. Support from our sustaining firms was unpresedented,as almost every member firm contribute financially in addition to time to the Tulsa Post thisyear. Your extraordinary leadership netted over $5,700 for our Scholarship Golf Tournamentand $1,900 at our October Tulsa/OKC Post Imporoving Life in Oklahoma Program.ARCADIS will make the final contribution for the year by underwriting our DecemberProgram and once again adding to our Scholarship Fund.

All of this and yet it has been but a single bond we shared - membership in the Society ofAmerican Military Engineers. To grow one must step up and step out. By faith, beyond anyindividual talent, we have achieved more together for the benefit of all. The more we werecalled upon, the more it became evident what our Tulsa Post and Members were made of -Strength, Courage, and Tenacity.

We have marked this year with the introduction of our own Tulsa Post Coin p r e s e n t e dfirst to our honored deployed members and military. We will always remember their selfless sacrifice they made and others will make in their service to our Country.

We started every program with the Pledge of Allegiance to our great Country who not onlydefends us and our freedom, but also fights for the freedom of all people. And we prayed w i t hgrateful hearts and a humble request to do the will of God in all that we placed before Him.

I have been truly honored to serve as your leader this year. I have been inspired,refreshed, and challenged. Thank you all for the gifts of your time and talent, most especiallythe Tulsa Post Board of Direction. You have been faithful and relentless.

May this year be a benchmark from which to grow.

Gratefully Yours,

Donna M. WeinkaufPresident SAME Tulsa Post

Left to Right: Donna Weinkauf -Tulsa Post President & IncomingTexoma Regional Vice President,Maj. Gen. Dean Fox - NationalSAME President; Jennifer Fogg -Chair Elect National Small BusinessCouncil; Arthur Salisbury - USACEKansas City Small Business; andGlenn Chatman - USACE St. LouisSmall Business.

Texoma & Missouri River Joint Regional Conference

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Special Tribute & Reception for Deployed Members

On November 4, 2004, The Tulsa Post was host to a specialtribute at the CoE recognizing the sacrifice of those civilian andmilitary personnel who have been deployed in support ofOperation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

COL Miroslav Kurka along with Donna Weinkauf, presentedthe honorees in attendance with a special SAME Tulsa Post coin,made specially for this event, and a certificate of appreciation.

After the ceremony, a special video presentation was showncontaining photos provided by the honorees.

Dawn Rice headed up the event, even though she was one ofthe honorees. A big thanks goes to Mrs. Rice for all of her workon this important event.

Special thanks also goes to COL Miroslav Kurka, DonnaWeinkauf, Angela Frew, Gene Lilly, Keith Rice, Rita Hutchins,Mary Beth Hudson, and Angie Short.

The event was widely covered by local media.

NOVEMBER PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

COL Miroslav Kurka of the Tulsa CoE gives a heart-felt speech atthe Tulsa Post SAME Tribute.

These Tribute Honorees were presented with a special Tulsa SAME Post coin and a certificate of appreciation from Tulsa SAME PostPresident Donna Weinkauf and COL Miroslav Kurka (standing far left).


Also on November 4, was the Chili Cook-Off at the Port of Catoosa.

Thanks to our sponsor, Weston Solutions, the event was hotand spicy with live music, prizes, and coneys with all of thefixin's’. The Chili Cook-Off winners are:

Best Taste: CyntergyPopular Vote: Planning Division, CoEHottest/Spiciest: Real Estate Division, CoEBest Display: URS/CRC

Chili Cook-Off

Whooa! That’s hot. Dana Linduff with the CoE Real EstateDivision, gets a kick out of watching people try his team’s fivealarm chili - winner of the Hottest/Spiciest Chili.

Watch out - here comesHell on Wheels, akaCyntergy. Kathy Smith,Robert Day, and MariaPadalino serve up theirsuperb chili that wonBest Taste.

Andrea Gibson withURS/CRC prepares someof their chili. URS/CRCwon the Best Display category with their cleverchemistry theme.

Craig Wells with the CoE Planning Division, proudly shows off his jarfull of “tips,” which won them the Popular Vote. All of the “tips” donat -ed by tasters went directly into the Tulsa SAME Scholarship Fund.

Tulsa Post President Donna Weinkauf, with ASSET Group, puts insome brownie points with one of the judges, Bonnie Kurka. Thisapparently didn’t do much good. It must have been that feather duster.

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Join us for the Annual Tulsa Post

Holiday Celebration!Thursday, December 9

6:00 pm

Petroleum Club601 South Boulder, 15th Floor, Tulsa, OK

$15.00 Scholarship Donation Per PersonFormal Dinner • Prizes • Fellowship • Fun

RSVP by noon, December 6 to:Maria Padalino, 918.877.6000 or [email protected]

Sponsored by

Santa needs your help to fill his Give-Away Bag! Please let Maria know if you will be donating a gift basket to be used as a door prize.

Tulsa SAME November 2004 • Page 5

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President Donna Weinkauf, ASSET Group 918.491.4777 [email protected]

1st Vice President John Roberts, TD CoE 918.669.7201 [email protected]

2nd Vice President Keith Rice, Wallace Engineering 918.584.5858 [email protected]

Secretary Loretta Turner,Weston Solutions 918.605.2033 [email protected]

Finance Don Davis, Williams Companies 918.573.2474 [email protected]

Programs Kathy Smith, Cyntergy 918.877.6000, Ext. 359 [email protected]: MAJ John Connor, TD CoE Earl Groves, TD CoE Lori Hunninghake, TD CoE Tracey Jordan-Ham, TD CoE Cynthia Kitchens, TD CoE Bernie Siemens, Severn Trent Labs

Membership Robert Day, Cyntergy 918.877.6000, Ext. [email protected] Committee:Andrea Gibson, URS Christine Morrison, TD CoE

Scholarship Gene Lilly, TD CoE 918.669.7196 [email protected]

Young Member Dawn Rice, TD CoE 918.669.7047 [email protected]: 1LT Kurt Stephens, ANG Chris Strunk, Wallace Engineering

Readiness LTC John Blickensderfer, ANG 918.833.7299 [email protected]: Bill Barnhart, TD CoE CAPT Bob Corrales, TD CoE CAPT Sean Eagan, TD CoE

Newsletter/Publicity Angela Frew, ASSET Group 918.491.4777 [email protected]

Web Site Editor John McLearan, ALL Consulting 918.382.7581, Ext. 12 [email protected]

Professional Growth David Steele, TD CoE 669-4932 [email protected] Warren [email protected]

Past President/Fellows Chuck Andrle [email protected]

Awards & Streamers Jeff Eycleshymer, RMC Consultants 918.584.5600 [email protected]

Board Members at Large COL Miroslav Kurka, TD CoE LTC Brett Perry, TD CoE Walt Garner, TD CoE

Sustaining Member Firms A&M Engineering & Environmental Aerial Data Service AMEC Earth & Environmental ARCADIS Arthur Langus Layne LLC ASSET Group Inc. Benham BKL, Inc. Black & Veatch Burns & McDonnell Cabrera Services Inc. Cape Environmental Management CDM Federal Programs Corp. CH Guernsey & Company CH2M Hill Coleman-Johnston-Clyma, Inc. Cowen Construction Craig & Keithline CRC & Associates, Inc. Cyntergy LLC Dewberry Design Group, Inc. Ecology & Environment Inc. EMR Inc. Environmental Chemical Corporation Franvel Corporation Garver Engineers LLC Guy Engineering Services, Inc. HNTB HydroGeoLogic, Inc. LopezGarcia Group MACTEC Engineering and Consulting MWH Pangea Group SAIC Severn Trent LaboratoriesShaw Environmental & Infrastructure Standard Testing & Engineering Co. Stanley Consultants, Inc. The Ross Group Construction Corp. Tetra Tech FHC Tulsa District USACE URS Corporation Wallace Engineering Washington Group International Inc. Weston Solutions, Inc. Willbros Engineers, Inc.

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