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October 2012 On October 26,
2012, the Oklahoma SCS/NRCS Retirees met at the Golden Corral Buffet
Restaurant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Thirty people were in attendance.
They were: Don
& Darlene Bartolina, Ken & Rebecca Blan, Bob Bumgarner, Steve
Chessmore, Everett & Helen Cole, Bob & Betty Day, Fred Fortney,
Randy Freeland, Lloyd Garrison, David & Janice Haggard, Jim & Mollye
Henley, Sandra Hough, Nick Lambeth, Jim McCampbell, Lowell & Minnie
McMasters, George Moreland, Nelson Mueller, Glen & Eunice Mullen,
Dan Runnels, Gayland Sandy, Jim Smith, Marcella Wagner.
President
Dan Runnels called the
meeting to order.
Nick Lambeth provided the blessing for the meal and
everyone enjoyed a buffet meal.
Jim Smith
introduced himself as a first time attendee.
Jim retired in
2002 as the District Conservationist in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
He said he spends most of his time attending OSU sporting
events, traveling, and volunteer work with the Sportsman’s Country
Club in Oklahoma City.
Sandra Hough,
our Secretary, said she mailed 340 notices about the meeting, 5 were
returned, and 3 re-mailed.
Current addresses are needed for
Bobby Morton, Chelsea;
and Carl Mackey,
Kingfisher. Several
retirees have updated their addresses through emails.
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.
She asked members to help her with addresses for those we no
longer seem to be able to reach.
Addresses “needed” can also be found on the website. Four new
retirees have been added to our retirees list.
They are Tim Miller,
Resource Engineer McAlester Technical Office, 6/1/12;
Brian Bredesen, Civil
Engineering Technician on Design Staff in Stillwater, 8/3/12, 32 yrs
service; Randy Wingfield,
Conservation Technician at Durant, 8/3/12; &
Bobby Cline, District Conservationist at Sulphur, 10/2/12, 36 yrs.
service.
Fred Fortney
read a list of recent retiree deaths:
Vernon (Spec) Horn,
6/12/04 & his wife Nezzie,
9/5/11; Trudie Green,
8/7/12, mother of Johnny Green former State Conservation Engineer &
husband of Joe Green, former engineer with SCS;
Helen Riley, 8/21/12,
widow of John T. Riley, Jr., Agronomist @ Clinton Technical Office;
Arvel Sumpter, 9/16/12, Conservation Technician,
retired in 1992, 81 yrs. old;
Wayne Holler,
9/21/12, Construction Inspector, Pauls Valley Watershed Office,
retired in 2010 with 45 years’ service, 73 yrs. old;
Bobby Davis, 10/6/12, Area Engineer Duncan Technical Office, 38 yrs
service, 76 yrs. old; Doris
Lambeth, 10/17/12, wife of Nickey J. Lambeth, retired Area
Conservationist at Clinton living at Okemah;
Gene Richardson, Marlow.
A moment of silence was observed and
Fred offered a prayer.
Randy Freeland
is the Oklahoma representative to ARCSE and uses information
gathered at the meetings 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 who have activities not
previously reported to complete an information sheet or update
information. Following are
letters and e-mails we received from members not in attendance:
Larry Wright
wrote:
Since conservation has been an active part of my life
when I began a career in 1971 at 16 years old, I am not quitting
yet. I am volunteering services to RC&D, appointed to Deer
Creek Conservation Board of Directors, working for OACD on the new
wildlife credit program for the lesser prairie chicken habitat in NW
Oklahoma, and providing leadership training workshops with Oklahoma
Conservation Commission. I am still active with the Soil and
Water Conservation Society and serve on the national leadership
development committee. I am also a member of the Oklahoma Wildlife
and Prairie Heritage Alliance and the Oklahoma Recycling
Association. Staying busy keeps me young.
Don
Bartolina replied:
Darlene and I took a 14 days trip to Europe. We started in Budapest
for 2 days, then got on a river boat and toured on the Danube for 7
days. We visited
Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Our trip ended in Prague for 3 days. Other cities visited were
Vienna, Durnstein, Melk, Salzburg and Linz in Austria. Passau,
Regensburg and Nuremberg in Germany. Going through the locks
on the Danube was quite interesting. Actually went over the
continental divide. We had a great time. We have 1400
pictures. Anyone interested?
Terry
and
Sandra Hough spent summer
#5 working at Fun Valley RV Resort in South Fork, Colorado.
Youngest daughter & family purchased an RV Park in Piedmont, MO in
March - Beaver Springs Campground. Pretty park if you RVers
are ever in that area. Granddaughter is a senior at Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater, OK majoring in Physical Education. We heard the following from Wilma Fraley: Since retiring, I have been having a great time doing all those things I missed out on while working. Spending more time with our children and grandchildren and having lunch every day with my husband, George, and the two children who work in our insurance agency is a real pleasure for me. I sometimes help out around the agency for a few hours at a time and am able to attend a lot of George's out-of-town meetings and conventions with him. We're in the middle of pecan harvest now, and, believe it or not, that is a lot of fun to be working with George, the kids and grandkids.
Roland Willis
provided the following which I think
many will find interesting.
(Editor’s Note:
If you did not catch the Dust Bowl series, it is available in DVD
and a variety of others medias.
Please follow this website.
It will make you proud of the work you did).
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/
President
Dan Runnels noted in the
meeting that there were a total of 6 Dust Bowl Screenings at various
locations around Oklahoma.
A few that experienced that time in our Nation’s history were
present at each event.
Paul May
wrote: Sorry to miss the
meeting. That was Janell's
birthday and had company at house.
Went to work in May for NASDA doing Ag statistics on a part
time basis and have enjoyed it. This coming January a CPA has ask
me to help with tax season.
We went back to Alaska in July and are planning to go thru
the Panama Canal next March on a 2 week cruise. I invite all who
would like to see this engineering marvel to come on with us. It
will be March 8th to the 22nd.
Winnie Jaques
said: Sorry I was unable
to attend. I was out of state. I guess you would call this a "part
time" job - I worked at the polling place for the presidential
election. Quite an
experience! Very interesting people showed up to vote but there were
no confrontations as I hear there was in many places.
I am sorry I missed the Luncheon in Oct.
I made all OSU Football home games. Now I’m looking forward to
Basketball. I still have some cattle, actually about half of
what I had before the summer of 2011 was received from
Otho Lamar.
Norm Smola
said he had been attending OSU sports, took a trip to Alaska this
summer, and playing on the farm in spite of the drought. “Flashes from
the Past” was shown at the meeting by
Randy Freeland. It was a
slide show of slides he had borrowed from the State Office
information section to show to the group.
He invited others who might have slides to bring them to show
at future meetings. The next
meeting was scheduled for Friday, April 26, 2013, at the Golden
Corral Buffet, 520 South MacArthur Blvd. in Oklahoma City.
It is located between I-40 & Reno behind the Shell Station.
Take Exit #144 off I-40.
Go north on MacArthur Blvd.
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