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Oklahoma SCS/NRCS
Retired Employees Minutes of Meeting April 26, 2013 Oklahoma SCS/NRCS
Retired Employees met at the Golden Corral Buffet at 520 South
MacArthur Blvd. in Oklahoma City.
Forty people were in attendance.
Vice President
Charlie Cail called the meeting to order.
He reported that JoAnn Keltch,
retired clerk at the Woodward TSO, suffered a stroke and is
currently at the Vici Nursing Home for skilled nursing/therapy.
Glen Mullen provided the blessing
for the meal.
Everyone enjoyed the buffet meal.
Following the meal,
Vice President Cail again called the meeting to order.
Tim Miller introduced himself and
his wife Margaret as first time attendees.
Those in attendance introduced
themselves and their spouse if in attendance. Secretary/Treasurer
Sandra Hough read the minutes of the October 26, 2012, meeting.
They were approved as read.
The treasurers’ report showed a
balance at the last meeting of $925.27, with $120.00 dues deposited
for a beginning balance of $1,045.27.
Expenses for this meeting were
$200.15 leaving an ending balance of $845.12.
There were 336 notices mailed, 9
returned, 2 re-mailed.
Current addresses are needed for
B.B. Bennett, Hydro; Jerry Winchester, Marietta; Frances Hudgins,
Stillwater; Dorothy Snowder, McAlester; Debbie Ruark, Stillwater;
Gary Garman, McAlester; Calvin Gann, Antlers; Bobby Morton, Chelsea;
and Carl Mackey, Kingfisher. The retiree website
(www.cyber-shack.net/nrcs/
) has been helpful in our effort to keep retirees informed.
This website also has a posting of
the attendees, minutes and pictures from each of the meetings. Fred Fortney read a
list of recent retiree deaths:
Joe Lansford, Sulphur, 1/17/13, 97
yrs. old; Charles Harmon, Edmond, 11/12/12, 71 yrs. old; Gene
Womack, Perry, 2/18/13, worked in Cheyenne WO & Perry AO in 1960’s;
Ron Mathiews, Eufaula, 1/26/13, retired in 1993 as SCT @ Eufaula;
Billie Sites, Norman, 1/8/13, wife of George Sites, Engineer,
retired in late 1980’s; Danny McCook, 1/25/13, Marlow WO, 69 yrs.
old; Vivian Cagle, Stillwater, 1/18/13, wife of John Cagle; Clarence
Hughes, SCT, Holdenville, 3/13/13, retired 1994; Fred Jones, Tulsa;
Hadley Meinders, 4/20/13, 90 yrs. man, retired 1980 from
Purcell/Norman; Denny Runnels, son of Dan & Sharon Runnels, passed
away 4/1/13; Michelle Williams, Tulsa CD Secretary, 11/30/12, 57
yrs. old; Dr. Jim Stritzke, 2/13, Professor at OSU who worked with
many SCS/NRCS employees; and Novalene Norton, Retired District
Secretary, Sulphur 4/2013.
A
moment of silence was observed and Fred offered a prayer. Eight
new
retirees have been added to our retiree list:
Greg Scott, State Soil Scientist,
Stillwater, 1/3/13, 37 yrs. old; Lanny
Miller,
Asst. State Conservationist (FO), Stillwater, 1/3/13, 35+ years;
Brad Elder, Soil Conservationist, Anadarko, 1/3/13, 38.5 years; Ron
Schmidt, District Conservationist, Cordell, 12/31/12, 25 years; Ron
Hilliard, State Conservationist, Stillwater, 1/3/13, 37 years; Ann
Colyer, Tribal Resource Conservationist, Durant 3/1/13; Shelley
Hungerford, Administrative Assistant, Stillwater, 4/1/13, 23 years;
Cherrie Brown, 1/3/13, District Conservationist, Boise City. Lowell McMasters
reported that Ferris Allgood, former Soil Scientist at Woodward, had
authored a book ‘Christmas 1941’.
It is available online.
Ferris retired as the State Soil
Scientist in Salt Lake City, UT. ‘Flashes from the
Past’ were presented by Randy & Bonnie Freeland.
They
had scanned photos from a 1977 State Awards Program booklet and
presented a power point video for the enjoyment of those in
attendance.
Many of the award recipients were
present at the meeting.
Roland Willis was the State
Conservationist at the time of the awards program. Randy Freeland is
the Oklahoma representative to ARCSE and uses information gathered
at the meeting to provide news articles for the newsletters sent to
members of the organization every other month.
Dues are $18 per year and he has
membership applications for anyone interested in joining.
He asked those in attendance to
‘jot down’ on an information sheet something he could include in the
newsletter. It was brought to
the attention of those in attendance that the Hometown Buffet on the
Northwest Expressway in Oklahoma City had reopened.
Prior to April 2012 this had been
the location of our retiree meetings.
A show of hands indicated an
interest to return to that location for meetings.
The meeting room at that location
was better for visiting and conducting the meeting.
The Hometown Buffet will be
contacted for availability for the next meeting.
Those with email addresses will be
advised by email prior to the meeting and the meeting notices sent
out 30 days prior to the meeting will show the location for the next
meeting.
The next meeting is
scheduled for Friday, October 25, 2013, location to be determined. There was no other
business to bring before the group and the meeting was adjourned.
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