By Dennis Sobota, P.E., President
January 2012
At
a Special Meeting of the VSPE Board of Directors on December 15, 2011, the
Board reluctantly accepted the resignation of Craig Moore and I was
elected President of the Society. Because of Craig’s expanding duties at
Virginia Tech, he didn’t feel he could devote the amount of time
necessary to fully and faithfully carry out his responsibilities to the
members of VSPE. Craig will remain a valued member of the Board and
continue as a co-instructor for the APELSCIDLA Regulations and Ethics
course. We all thank Craig for his service and look forward to his
continued relationship with VSPE.
Also,
at this Board meeting Gerald “Jerry” Davis was approved unanimously to
complete Joe Clark’s term through June 30, 2013. Welcome Jerry and
we all look forward to working with you.
As
President I will continue the initiatives started in 2011 and look forward
to their development with the goal of increasing the organization’s
value to the membership. The initiatives I intend to focus on for the next
six months are:
·
The
Spring 2012 King’s Dominion initiative continues to take shape and
contacts have been made with Lego to ask for their competition experiences
as well as to serve as a partial sponsor of the event.
·
Fully
explore our new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Society of
American Military Engineers (SAME) with the goal of improving both
organizations.
·
I
want to start a regularly scheduled meeting with training and membership
folks at HQ NSPE. With their location in Northern Virginia, I don’t
believe we have taken full advantage of benefits they can offer the VSPE
membership. Most of all I want to learn about their programs and
initiatives and eliminate any redundancies that may exist.
·
Finally,
I want to continue to focus on new membership. With the annual
Virginia Engineers Conference (VEC) being our premier event of the year, I
want to make every effort with our partners at ACEC to expand awareness of
the event, select timely topics with engaging speakers, and create an
atmosphere of a “Can’t Miss Event”.
I wish us all a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.
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