Geotechnical News March 2011
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ASFE NEWS
ASFE Nominating Committee Announces 2011-12 Slate
ASFE’s
Nominating
Committee
has announced its slate of officers
and directors for ASFE’s 2011-12
fiscal year, beginning May 1, 2011.
David R. Gaboury, P.E.
(Terracon)
will
automatically assume the ASFE
Presidency. Others nominated are:
For President-Elect:
David A.
Schoenwolf, P.E.
(Haley & Al-
drich, Inc.)
;
For Secretary-Treasurer:
Kurt R.
Fraese, L.G.
(GeoEngineers, Inc.)
;
For Directors
: Joel G. Carson
(Klein-
felder Group)
;
Mark K. Kramer, P.E.
(Soil and Ma-
terials Engineers, Inc.)
;
Gordon M. Matheson, Ph.D., P.E.,
P.G.
(Schnabel Engineering)
;
Steven D. Thorne, P.E., D.GE
(GEI
Consultants, Inc.)
; and
Woodward L. Vogt, P.E.
(Paradigm
Consultants, Inc.).
Five of the seven are serving on the
2010-11 Board. The two “newbies”
are Joel G. Carson and Woodward L.
“Woody” Vogt, P.E., F.ACI, F.ASCE.
Joel is an 18-year veteran of the
Kleinfelder Group, serving as a senior
vice president and principal. Located
in Omaha, NE, Joel manages Klein-
felder’s Central Division and is respon-
sible for providing strategic leadership
for more than 300 employee-owners
across eight states. Joel is a member of
the ASFE Business Practice Commit-
tee, a past chair of the New Leaders’
Committee, and is winding up his term
as External Relations Committee chair.
Joel has also been active in ASCE,
chairing committees in Nebraska and
Washington.
Woody began his service to ASFE
on the Business Practice Committee,
“transferred” to the then-newly formed
Construction Materials Engineering
and Testing (CoMET) Committee,
then chaired the Certification and Ac-
creditation Task Force. President of
Paradigm Consultants, Inc. (Houston,
TX), Woody is also active on several
ACI committees; has just begun his
third term as chair of the American As-
sociation for Laboratory Accreditation
(A2LA) board of directors; is a Texas
Council of Engineering Laboratories
director; and chairs ASTM Subcom-
mittee ASTM E36.20 -
Certification/
Registration Bodies
.
Mail ballots are being issued to the
HQ offices of all ASFE-Member Firms.
Samford Elected to Head Fellows
W. Jerrold “Jerry” Samford, P.G., an
environmental compliance specialist
with Troutman Sanders LLP, has been
elected chair of ASFE’s Council of
Fellows. The Council is empowered
to pursue whatever projects it believes
will benefit ASFE in particular and the
geoprofessions as a whole.
Before joining Troutman Sanders in
April 2006, Mr. Samford served as vice
president and principal-in-charge of
geoenvironmental services for Virginia
Geotechnical Services, P.C. and, in that
capacity, served as ASFE’s president
during the organization’s 2001-02 fis-
cal year. Mr. Samford has extensive
experience in the interpretation and ap-
plication of environmental regulations.
With Troutman Sanders, a law firm, he
consults on a wide variety of projects
involving ecological natural resources,
geology, groundwater, environmental
investigation, application of standard
methodologies, and governmental reg-
ulations.
With seven published papers to his
credit, Mr. Samford was one of three
persons representing ASFE during the
EPA-negotiated rulemaking for devel-
oping guidelines for the “All Appropri-
ate Inquiry” process for environmental
site assessments. He is a past president
of the Institute of Brownfield Profes-
sionals, a former member of the edi-
torial board of
Geo-Strata
magazine,
and serves on the editorial board for
the
Environmental and Engineering
Geoscience Bulletin
of the Association
of Environmental and Engineering Ge-
ologists.
ASFE’s Council of Fellows com-
prises some two dozen recognized as-
sociation leaders. Established in 1975,
the Council has been responsible for a
variety of innovations, including AS-
