President's Message

Colonel Tom ChapmanTo the Great Sacramento Post, Society of American Military Engineers:

What a great year it’s been for the Sacramento Post as we continue to successfully bring our engineering and related fields together to share our knowledge of engineering, technologies, applications, and practices. And we’ve done this in spades through our superb conferences and forums – our 2009 California Water Conference, our Sustaining Members Forum, our Young Members Forums, our annual Golf Tournament, and our many monthly meetings. We’ve been so successful in fact, that this past year we’ve been able to award over $33,000 in scholarships to our young aspiring future engineers, the most we’ve ever awarded in a single year!

All of you, our individual and sustaining members, our young members and military members, and our venerable Fellows – all of you have made a huge difference towards our incredible success. And I want to thank every one of you for your extremely hard work and commitment to our post. Can you believe post membership now numbers 560 individual and sustaining members with 102 member firms. That’s fantastic! With that type of support and commitment, in my mind, we can continue to be the best post in the Nation continuing to deliver great forums on the issues of our day in Northern and Central California. In fact, we are already planning our 2011 Water Conference!

I would like to thank Colonel Tom Chapman for his outstanding leadership and dedication as the Post President for the past two years. He has been an inspiration to us all and it is my great pleasure to take the ball from him and continue to drive it down the field. I am committed to serving all of you and the post in accomplishing our objectives over the next year. And I know I can expect the same dedicated commitment from all of you. Our post is a great team. Thanks again.

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Kiger
Sacramento Post President

The Society of American Military Engineers: formed “in the interest of National Defense… bringing together all phases of U.S. engineering, [in both the] civil sector and military, for the advancement of knowledge…and the rapid mobilization of engineering capabilities.” - Charter of the Society of American Military Engineers, founded in 1920.