Updated 14 April 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!

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.

Thanks to the great work of our 2009 Post President, Ken Bryan, plus all the 2009 officers, Board members and Post members, the Oklahoma City Post has been named Distinguished Post for 2009!  Great work by everyone to achieve this superb recognition!

 

Not only that, but the Oklahoma City Post was also named Top Medium Post for 2009 out of 36 medium-sized posts throughout the world!  Congratulations to ALL of our individual members and sustaining member firms/organizations for your contributions in winning this award!  The Post will be presented the award at the 2010 Joint Engineer Training Conference (fka SAME National Conference) May 4-7 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Super job, Oklahoma City Post!

 

Check out the notification letter HERE.

The Oklahoma City Post won all four of the streamers, with distinction, for 2009:

 

· Education and Training Streamer

· Outreach and Communications

· Relationships and Recognition

· Readiness and Homeland Security

 

How significant is this?  Well, the Oklahoma City Post was one of only five posts in the TEXOMA Region to win all the streamers for 2009, out of 10 posts in the Region.  Great job by our Oklahoma City Post sustaining member firms/agencies and individual members!!  In particular, thanks to our 2009 officers and Board members, and specifically Andrea Gibson for heading up our Awards and Recognition efforts!  Let’s do it again in 2010 Oklahoma City Post!!

Dear SAME OKC Post,

 

Thank you so much for providing the oppor-

tunity for Melissa and I to attend the SAME

Student Leadership Conference in Grapevine,

TX last week. Throughout the workshop we

were able to learn more about the lifelong

benefits of SAME and the ways in which we

can improve our current student chapter at

OU. We had a great time getting to know

other student leaders from campuses

around the country and having the opportunity

to meet with the leaders of SAME including

college outreach chair, Ben Matthews and several other enthusiastic SAME board members.  We also had the privilege of meeting the current SAME executive director Dr. Wolff as well as the incoming president Maj. Gen.  Byers. This experience has been incredibly rewarding and we thank you for your ongoing support for the OU Student Chapter. We are excited to implement the strategies that we learned at the conference and are looking forward to building a sustainable SAME Student Chapter at the University of Oklahoma.

 

Thanks Again,

Ashley Rood

OU SAME Student Chapter President

A big thank you to the following people affiliated with the Society of American Military Engineers for volunteering February 16th to help at the 2010 Engineering Fair held at Science Museum Oklahoma: 

 

· Martha Smith, AMEC

· Cynthia Garrett, Tinker AFB

· Sharon Swafford, OESCO

· Winona Simmons, Fort Sill Resident Office, Corps of Engineers

 

Thanks again to our volunteers for making this engineering fair successful!  Super job SAME community!

Thank you to the following SAME OKC Post members who supported the 2010 Future City Competition held January 16th:

 

Organizing Committee                                       Judges  

Aruna Abhayagoonawardhana                          Winona Simmons

                                                                             Jeff Kindschuh

Mentors

Ken Bryan (mentor for Sequoyah Middle School)

Philip Wood (mentor for Sequoyah Middle School)

 

To see an article from The Sunday Oklahoman regarding the competition, click here.

 

Thanks again to our volunteers from SAME for helping to develop the minds of our future scientists and engineers!

A big thank you to the following people affiliated with the Society of American Military Engineers for volunteering on February 6th to help proctor and grade tests at the MATHCOUNTS competition held at Oklahoma City Community College (all the volunteers listed below are SAME members or were recruited by SAME members for the event on Saturday) .

 

Proctors:                                                              Graders:

Dan Tompkins, Indian Health Service             Farid Ahmad, Standard Testing

Mark Hench, Indian Health Service                 Trudi Logan, Tinker AFB

Joseph Cecrle, Tinker AFB                               Ming Yu, Red River Environmental Lab

                                                                             Tom Kelly, Standard Testing

                                                                             Emily Jordan, Tinker AFB

                                                                             Betty Leija, Tinker AFB

                                                                             1Lt Charles Skrovan, Tinker AFB

                                                                             DeLanna Mead, Tinker AFB

                                                                             Barbara Hays, Tinker AFB

                                                                             Jeff Kindschuh, Tinker AFB

 

Tommy Lear, Central Oklahoma Regional MATHCOUNTS Coordinator, sent an email that stated:

 

“I do want to say a special thank you to you and the SAME members.  SAME is consistently the largest group represented among the MATHCOUNTS volunteers.  Your help in soliciting volunteers and the response from the SAME community is always greatly appreciated.”

 

Thanks again to our volunteers for making this competition for 7th and 8th grade "mathletes" successful once again!  Super job SAME community!

The Air Force Association, Oklahoma City Gerrity Chapter, is seeking mentors for Oklahoma teachers who will attend the Education and Training Day on June 4 as part of the Oklahoma Aerospace Summit.  Additional information can be found HERE.

 

Dr Randy Allford (allford_keith@bah.com) is the point of contact who is gathering contact data for those who volunteer.  Feel free to contact either Randy Allford or Mark Tarpley (mark.l.tarpley@gmail.com or at 850-3589), both with the Air Force Association, if you need more information.

Oklahoma City Post representatives accepting the Top 2009 Medium Post Flag from Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, 2009-2010 SAME National President, at the Honors Ceremony in Atlanta on May 5, 2010, left to right: Don Ritenour, Benham/SAIC; Robert Day, Cyntergy; Ken Hirshey, Cyntergy; Jeff Kindschuh, Altus AFB; Kathy Smith, Cyntergy; Shane Faurot, Key Construction; Josh Dougherty, C.H. Guernsey and Company; and, Jennifer Fogg, The ASSET Group.