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Announces 2001 Award Winners and Installs New Board by Leo Gonzalez The San Francisco Bay Section held its annual awards and installation banquet on Friday, January 11th at Scotts Restaurant, in Jack London Square. Having the banquet in January is a change for the Bay Section, which normally is held in February. The San Francisco Bay Section Board decided on the change to allow more time to submit the winner applications to CWEA for the annual conference. About 140 people packed the "Harbor Room" in Scotts Restaurant to enjoy a night dedicated to honoring outstanding performances within our industry. The annual awards night is historically the most popular event for the San Francisco Bay Section. It is one time during the year when you can visit with many friends and have the opportunity to make new acquaintances. The evening started out with a social hour and picture taking of candid shots showing members getting caught up on the latest events. Dave Williams, past president of the Bay Section assumed the duty of awards chair for the banquet and also acted as master of ceremony. Dave provided a warm welcome to all attendees and introduced Larry Tolby, CWEA Vice President who spoke briefly on CWEA and how it was like a big family. Since Larry is one of the leaders in our family, he momentarily forgot which CWEA family he was with because he started to introduce the San Francisco Bay Section officers as the Santa Clara Valley Section. This definitely got a RISE out of his Bay Section family. That's like going to a San Francisco 49er game, surrounded by 49er fans and wearing the opposing teams' colors. (BUT WE STILL LOVE YA LARRY!) After an excellent dinner programs (THANKS RAY BUSCH!) we moved to the main event of the evening which was the installation of the new officers for the San Francisco Bay Section and the presentation of awards. 2002 San Francisco Bay Section BoardPresident Vice
President First
Year Director Second
Year Director Treasurer Past
President & Awards Chair
2001 Award WinnersEngineering
Achievement
Engineering
Research
Achievement
Supervisor
of the Year Public
Education Laboratory
Analyst of the Year Mechanical
Technician of the Year Electrical/Instrumentation
Person of the Year Treatment
Plant Operator of the Year Andy
Stamatelos Memorial Service Award Collection
System of the Year
Treatment
Plant of the Year We had great nominations for this year’s San Francisco Bay Section awards and thank all the applicants for their time and effort in putting together their applications. Congratulations go to this year’s award recipients! We wish them good luck at the annual conference. The evening ended as many members said their good-bye’s to old friends and the award winners assembled for the annual picture taking ceremony. As always it was an enjoyable evening and the Section looks forward to accomplishing many tasks over the upcoming year and once again assembling for the banquet in the year 2002.
Your 2002 SFBS Board
Happy Award Winners – Oro Loma – Large Plant of the Year |
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