June 25, 2010
I
want to start off by saying thanks to all that came to our annual chapter
picnic this month. It's always good to
catch up with other fellow surveyors and that you don't get to see on a regular
basis. It seemed everyone was having a
good time! Another
thanks goes out to Seiler Instrument and Surveyors Materials for their
donations of prizes for our Surveyors' Olympics. The both of them have always been very
generous to us. I've received lots of
positive feedback on the location of this year's picnic. The park was very nice, clean, quiet, and
well shaded!
The next chapter meeting is at Seiler Instrument at their St. Peters office. The presentation will be on GIS. This should be a great presentation to
attend. I will have a few more things
to discuss during the business part of the meeting that involve the State
Fair. Hope to see everyone there! Until then, BE SAFE OUT THERE!
May 25, 2010
We have finally nailed down the location of the annual picnic! It
will be at John A. Love Park at the Mary Shelter. Check
out our calendar for directions. This will be on Wednesday, June
16th. Please join us for fun, food, and games!
We are still looking for people to volunteer to man the booth at the MO State
Fair.
I'd like to thank Seiler Instrument for allowing us to use their facility for
our May meeting and for delivering a great presentation on 3-D scanning.
Pat Stack did a great job along with some guests from Trimble.
The picnic takes the place of June's meeting. The July meeting will be at
Seiler's St. Peters
office and the presentation will be on GIS. I'm looking forward to seeing
you all there! Until then, BE SAFE OUT THERE!
May 12, 2010
First of all, I would like to thank my fellow board members for doing an
outstanding job so far. These guys have taken a lot of initiative to get
things together for our meetings. It takes a lot of phone calls and leg
work to get some of these presentations set up. I have been traveling a
lot lately for work and they have held it together in my absence. Thanks
guys!
The April meeting was held at the Surdex facility in Chesterfield.
Business was discussed before the presentation. We posted a survey on the
website about the mandatory recording issue. Thanks to all of you that
voted and expressed opinions. This will be interesting to see how this
turns out. The MO State Fair is fast approaching and we would like our
chapter to be represented at a booth alongside other local chapters at the
fair. If you would like to volunteer, please send us an email and we will
get you set up. Our annual picnic is next month. We still haven't
nailed down a location, but we are working towards that and we will post it as
soon as we can get it determined. If you have any suggestions on a
location, please feel free to contact us!
I would like to thank Ron Hoffman, Tim Donze, and Bill Walker at Surdex for putting on a fantastic presentation and for letting
us use their facility for our monthly meeting. I
heard they did a wonderful job! They discussed everything from client
needs, cameras, aircraft, LiDAR, mapping, and final
product to even giving a tour of the facilities. Thanks again!
I know it still looks like we have some spots to fill on the calendar, but we
have something in the works for all of them. We are just awaiting
approvals from the state. We have just locked one down for September that
I think will be fascinating and informative. Brian Fischer has agreed to
put on a Riparian Rights presentation at Flo Valley.
Thanks Brian! We are always looking for ideas for presentations even for
next year so if you have something you would like to see or present yourself,
just dropped us an email.
Thanks again for your continued support of our chapter! Until then, BE
SAFE OUT THERE!
April 9, 2010
We are
conducting a survey to collect the views of the St. Louis area surveyors on the Mandatory
Recording Bill HB2029, which will change the wording of 60.650. Please click on
the link below to read about the change and to participate in the survey. Your
responses and comments will remain anonymous.
Mandatory Recording Survey
March 31, 2010
This month’s meeting was conducted and attended by all of the executive
committee and a several chapter members at Cornerstone Land Surveying and
Engineering. Thank you Mike Heffington, once again for letting us use your
facility for our meeting. Here are some
key points that we discussed:
·
Additional PDU topics and locations
·
Annual Picnic
·
Results of Career Fairs that we attended
·
National Surveyors’ Week
·
Trig-Star Program
It appears that we finally have our meetings hashed out for
the rest of the year! Keep an eye on the
St. Louis Chapter website for the dates and locations. Next months meeting will be held at Surdex on April 28th for PDU’s. Yes, that’s the fourth Wednesday of the month!
Scheduling conflicts lead us to have it on that day instead of the
customary third Wednesday of the month.
I’d like to pass along some “Thanks” to several people who
attended this month’s meeting even though we didn’t offer any PDU’s. Mike Heffington, Dan Govero, Ed Owen, Kurt Richeson, and David Varner. You guys provided lots of incite and wisdom
to our meeting and we are grateful for your attendance. Another thanks goes
out to first year director Ryan McDowell for creating a beautiful new chapter
news letter! Impressive!
Thanks again for your support! Until then, BE SAFE OUT THERE!
February 22, 2010
This months meeting was conducted and attended by the
executive committee, President,
Secretary-Treasurer, Directors 1, 2, and 3 and the immediate Past
President, for the purpose of discussing Chapter business for 2010. Here is a
list of key point’s discussion:
·
Professional Development Units (PDUs) topics
·
Locations for PDU presentations
·
Annual Picnic
·
50/50 Raffle Tickets
·
Information/Display booth at the Science
Center
for Engineers’ Week
·
Information/Display booth at the Parkway School district Career Fair
·
Chapter Charter
We are still trying to hash out PDU topics for our future
meetings. We are waiting on some answers
from possible presenters yet. When we
have things nailed down, we will get them posted on the site as soon as
possible. Thanks for you support!
Until then, BE SAFE
OUT THERE!
January 28, 2010
Another year has officially begun for the St. Louis
Chapter! We started it out with a bang
at the annual Surveyors’ Banquet at Spazio’s. We had another good turnout this year! The Chapter thanks you all for your
support. I would also like to thank the
duo “Thicker Than Water” (Kristen and Tyler Elder) for putting on a phenomenal
performance once again! These two are
amazing and you should really look them up and check them out. I would like to congratulate Ed Owen on
receiving the 2009 award for being an outstanding member and contributor to our
society and to the profession as a whole.
Ed may have received the award for 2009, but he really could have
received it for the whole decade. I
would like to say thanks to Fermin X. Glasper for his run as President of our
Chapter for 2009. Fermin sets a high
standard that will be tough for anyone to follow. I wish him all the luck as he takes on the
state level of our society. Keep them
drinking the cool-aid Fermin! I would
also like to thank the rest of the board, Jared
Minnick, Patrick Bowman, Brian
Higgins, Jim Exler, and our newest member Ryan McDowell for
staying with us. I feel we have a great
group of minds here that can get some things accomplished. I am looking forward to a great 2010 with you
guys! The emails have really been
bouncing around and we haven’t even gotten to our February board meeting! We’ve got some great ideas for the upcoming
meetings. Tentatively, we will be
offering PDU’s as early as the March meeting. The last couple of years, we have had
excellent turn-out at the meetings and I hope this continues. Keep an eye on our website. Kurt Richeson
is still the man behind the scenes on this.
He says he is making some changes on here and I think you will like
them! Thanks Kurt for your continued
support of our chapter! We will continue
to have the calendar of events posted on here for all of you to keep track of
what’s going on and where. Well, it’s
time to end this! I hope to see you all
at our March meeting! Until then, BE SAFE OUT THERE!
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