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Geotechnical News • December 2012
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ASFE NEWS
annual
Financial Performance Sur-
vey
as well as our premeeting busi-
ness snapshot surveys, and publish-
ing
Practice Alert 51: Safety and
Your Geoprofessional Practice
.
• In keeping with our efforts to pro-
mote sustainability, we have dis-
pensed with almost all the paper
associated with ASFE meetings.
Earlier in the year we came out
with the new ASFE meeting app.
It was such an immediate hit that
we have now come out with the
ASFE app
. If you haven’t seen it,
you need to. It works on iPhones
and iPads, Droids, Blackberries,
and Microsoft smart phones and
tablets. Also for sustainability pur-
poses, we have made
NewsLog
available electronically only, and
to boost traffic to our website,
we have made it
available free of
charge
to one and all. We have also
become a charter member of the
Institute for Sustainable Infrastruc-
ture
and adapted our own
statement
on sustainability.
• We created a Peer Review Task
Force to identify what we needed
to do to keep Peer Review in tune
with the times. And now we have
a new
Peer Review Committee
that
will implement the vision of the
Task Force.
• We have created a new
Social Me-
dia
Task Force to help us all get
more in tune with the newest meth-
ods of communication, and have
also established an International
Engagement Task Force to explore
expanding our outreach to geopro-
fessionals beyond those in North
America. New communications
techniques will be helpful in that
endeavor, but it was old-fashioned
techniques that helped our Mem-
ber Firms in Pennsylvania achieve
a
huge victory
, when the state re-
versed a prior ruling and said that,
in fact, CoMET personnel are not
subject to the commonwealth’s pre-
vailing wage regulations.
In undertaking so many of these
endeavors, we have reached out to you
to provide input; to harvest your ideas
and opinions about what you want
and need; about the direction in which
we are headed. That’s exactly as it
should be, of course, because ASFE
was created to do for all that which all
want and need, but are unable to do on
their own. We believe we are getting
it done.
To say that I have been blessed this
year by the willingness of so many
others to share their experience, their
ideas, and their energy really misses
the point. We all have been blessed,
for they have made and continue to
make the world of private practice a
better place to be. To my fellow mem-
bers of the Board of Directors; to the
committee chairs and vice chairs; to
the committee members and staff, on
my own behalf, and on the behalves
of all our members, now and to
come, thank you. Together, you have
changed this organization in so many
ways, and yet – in its soul – it retains
the fundamental uniqueness that is
ASFE. So while it may no longer be
our founding fathers’ASFE, I can-
not help but believe that our founders
would quickly recognize what they
saw, and be tremendously proud of
what they put into motion.
Thank you for this extraordinary
opportunity.
David R. Gaboury, P.E.
ASFE President, 2011-2012
ASFE elects David Schoenwolf
President
David A. “Dave” Schoenwolf, P.E.
was installed as the new president of
ASFE/The Geoprofessional Business
Association at ceremonies conducted
at ASFE’s annual meeting in Orlando,
Florida. Mr. Schoenwolf is the 42nd
individual to serve as ASFE’s presi-
dent and chair the group’s Board of
Directors. Other officers and directors-
at-large who will serve during ASFE’s
2012-13 fiscal year are:
• President-Elect Kurt R. Fraese, L.G.
(
GeoEngineers, Inc., Seattle, WA
);
• Secretary/Treasurer Steven D.
Thorne, P.E., D.GE (
GEI Consul-
tants, Inc., Montclair, NJ
);
• Joel G. Carson (
Kleinfelder Group,
Omaha, NE
);
• Mark K. Kramer, P.E. (
Soil and Ma-
terials Engineers, Inc., Plymouth,
MI
);
• Gordon M. Matheson, Ph.D., P.E.,
P.G. (
Schnabel Engineering, Glen
Allen, VA
);
• Laura R. Reinbold, P.E. (
TTL, Inc.,
Nashville, TN
), and
• Woodward L. Vogt, P.E. (
Paradigm
Consultants, Inc., Houston, TX
).
Mr. Schoenwolf is a senior vice presi-
dent/principal consultant of
Haley &
Aldrich, Inc
., one of the ten firms that
founded ASFE in 1969. Located at the
firm’s McLean, Virginia office, Mr.
Schoenwolf has been with Haley &
Aldrich, Inc. for more than 34 years.
He serves as the firm’s water/waste-
water market-segment leader and is
also the client leader for several major
national infrastructure clients as well
as the officer-in-charge forgeotechni-
cal engineering and environmental
evaluations for a broad range of
projects. Mr. Schoenwolf has been the
designer of record for the geotechni-
cal-engineering aspects of numerous
Mid-Atlantic and East-Coast projects,
including several of the firm’s largest
Washington, DC-area infrastructure
projects. Licensed in a dozen jurisdic-
tions, Mr. Schoenwolf earned both his
Bachelor of Science degree (in civil
engineering) and Master of Science
degree (in geotechnical engineering)
from the University of Illinois. He is
active in several professional societies,
is a frequent speaker and lecturer, and
has been published extensively over
his career.
FOPP 21 survey results
Fundamentals of Professional Prac-
tice (FOPP) offers a unique learning
experience for geoprofessional firms’
rising stars. Offered just once a year,
the upcoming FOPP – FOPP 22 – is
now forming. (Enrollment is strictly
limited. Reserve space now without