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Radiation Safety Refresher Seminar
March 9, 2013

Thirty-four attendees from 5 different local radiographic firms attended the March 9 Radiation Safety Refresher sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Section. Presentations by Bruce Busby, CHP & RSO of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Jennifer Serne of the Washington State Department of Health, and David Frlan of Thermofisher Electronics. This was the 11th year Bruce assisted by speaking at the seminar, 9 years as the RSO at FHCRC and 2 years as a State regulator. Box lunches of Amarillo Wraps, Roast Beef and Cheddar, Ham and Swiss with cookies and bottled water were made available for lunch to all attendees and speakers. Emery E. Roberts presented another challenging game of Radiation Safety Jeopardy prior to lunch. Tim Burkholder, Section Chairperson started out the morning by providing a brief overview of ASNT, the Pacific Northwest Section and its’ meetings, outings and events. The event concluded at 4 pm with certificates of attendance being distributed to those present.
Thank you to all who attended and especially to the speakers and their employers for making this event a success.

Christmas Party
December 13, 2012

The Christmas Party of the Pacific Northwest Section was held at the World Sports Grill, formerly Jillian’s Billiards. Thirteen adults and 12 young adults enjoyed the evening visitation of Santa on his way back to the North Pole. A buffet of Assorted Domestic Cheese and Crackers, Vegetable Spring Rolls with Sweet Chili Sauce, Creamy Spinach & Artichoke Dip with Tortilla Chips, Cheese Quesadillas, Sweet & Spicy Barbecue Meatballs, and Chicken Satay with Peanut dipping sauce was enjoyed by all during the prelude to Santa’s visit. Santa took time out of preparedness for his upcoming trip to give a few gifts to the young adults present. Their adult companions enjoyed gift sharing themselves. Future meetings will be at the Rock Salt unless otherwise noted on the section web site. All members are urged to sign the guest book at each event and the Level III certificate of attendance as appropriate. A drawing held during the last meeting of the year will select names taken from the guest book for the opportunity to win $30 per meeting with a potential of $270. The more meetings one attends and signs the guest book the odds increase that the winner could be you.


Annual Golf Scramble
August 4, 2012

Fifteen guests and 30 members of The Pacific Northwest Section of ASNT enjoyed near perfect weather at Madrona Links in Gig Harbor, Washington on Saturday, August 4, 2012. Eighteen holes of Par 71 golf was enjoyed by 9 foursomes and 1 quintet on a cloudless 73 degree Fahrenheit day. A post tournament BBQ hosted by MPM Products consisted of hamburgers, buns, lettuce, onions, pickles, tomatoes, baked beans, potato salad and soft cookies. Liquid refreshments consisted of soft drinks from the club house as the temperature rose to 88 degrees Fahrenheit. A 16 mb digital camera was donated by Olympus NDT for the post tournament drawing which featured an inspiring game of rock-paper-scissor. It was a great chance for all the hard working NDT professionals from around Puget Sound, Eastern Washington and Portland, OR to put aside their inspection work and have a day of just having fun and seeing old friends, although some of us are feeling a little older than others. The Hole in One prize of $10,000 was safe again this year since nobody had an ace on hole #2. When you have a tournament scoring is expected, so here it is:...
1st Place - Grinnell's Group with 11 under par consisted of
Gerry Grinnell of Mistras Services, Doug Andersen, Don Andersen, and Scott Andersen from Boeing.
2nd Place - The East Siders with 9 under par consisted of
Justin Flecke, Thomas Hallen, Chuck Edie, Doug Worsech from Olympus.
3rd Place - SeaCasters 2 with 7 under par consisted of
Ron Bradbury, Ron Hebert, Steve Cromer, Rod Meher of SeaCast. Inc.
The Putting contest was won by Bob Swisher of Boeing ADC group, Steven Alberts of Acuren was 2nd and Mike Potter of VM Products was 3rd.
Specific holes had various contests and the winners are noted below.
#2 Closest to the Pin - foursome
Mike Tardner with 12', of Heavy Met'l Checkers
#6 Closest to the Pin - individual
Ron Bradbury with 25' of Seacast (KJB)
#8 Longest Drive - Men
Don Anderson of Grinnell's Group
#8 Longest Drive - Women
Pegi Reese of Reese's Pieces
#10 Longest Drive
Thomas Hallen of the Eastsiders (Olympus NDT)
#12 Closest to the Pin
1st - Mike Reese of Reese's Pieces with 10 ft. 7 inches, 2nd was Gerry Grinnell of Grinnell's Group, 3rd was Thomas Hallen of Eastsiders (Olympus NDT)
#15 Shortest Drive
Mike Reese of Reese's Pieces - 15/16 inches
#17 Closest to the Pin
Jay Bagerello of Seacast with 8 ft. 4 inches
#18 Longest Putt
Mike Power of VM Products with 14 ft. 3 inches

This is the last year for Bob Swisher, Bill Meade, and Matt Mead to act as tournament organisers. They have voluntarily stepped down after many long years with fun and successful scrambles. Thank you Bob, Bill, and Matt.
The most important thing to remember about this precursor to the Blue Angels and Sea Fair hydroplane races is that everyone had fun to kick off the 2012-2013 program year.

Section Photo Collage

Anyone that has any old photos of past local ASNT people/functions or anything that maybe interesting for a section photo collage, please contact section secretary Emery E. Roberts. He would like to put together the history of the section in photos and is asking for your help in doing so. Thanks very much. Emery can be reached at 206-764-8123.
A special thank you to Jim Cox of Zetec for providing two volumes of old section photos. Thanks Jim!

Section Officers

June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013
Chairperson
Tim Burkholder of Mistras Group
Services Division
Work Number 206-764-8123
Vice Chairperson
Jeff Siegel of Solnex
Work Number 425-233-9362
Secretary
Emery E. Roberts of Mistras Group
Services Division
Work Number 206-764-8123
Treasurer
Trey Gordon of The Boeing Co.
Work Number: 360-618-4400

--Directors--
One Year
Dave Hall of L&W Research
T.J. Peraza of The Boeing Company
Ted Roman of Olympus NDT
Kathy Ferguson of The Boeing Company
Two Year
Flynn Spears of Laser Technologies, Inc.
Chris Black of The Boeing Company
Bill Wahmuth of ABW Technologies
Jason Jarrett of GL Noble-Denton

Immediate Past President
Bill Wahmuth of ABW Technologies

Awards Chairperson
Tom Davis of HD Labs

Education Chairperson
Matt Mead of Exotic Metals Forming

Section Web Site
http://www.asntpnws.org
Webmaster
Emery E. Roberts

Newsletter Distribution

We would like to stop sending you paper copies of the monthly newsletter. Please send email to the section Secretary so you can be removed from the paper newsletter mailing list. Include the following information:
1.Name
2.The fact that you want to stop getting the paper copy.
3.Email address to receive email copies only.
Most company email servers will not accept email unless it has a specific address such as you@server.com.

April 12 , 2012 Meeting report


On April 12th, 2012 the Pacific Northwest Section of ASNT presented an evening with two of the original Tuskegee Airmen. Members of the Seattle based Sam Bruce Chapter's Tuskegee Airmen Captain (Retired) George Hickman and Colonel (Retired) Ed Drummond were the featured speakers.
We were very honored to have these men speak at our meeting and at the end presented them with a $500.00 check towards their scholarship campaign. Additional information about the Tuskegee Airmen can be found on the web at http://tuskegeeairmen.org along with book publications and the most recent George Lucas movie "Red Tails" and documentary "Double Victory".A drawing from the attendees who sign the guest book at each meeting was held. Roy Goodall was the lucky winner who attended 3 meetings this year. The more meetings attended the better your chances at winning. Roy was also the winning name drawn last year.

Technical Meeting Speaker

Any person interested in speaking at one of our monthly meetings on a subject that advances knowledge, educates, or presents new insight into common NDT problems should contact any officer or director.

Attention

If your E-mail address has changed, please E-mail the changes to the Section Secretary atsecretary@asntpnws.org to update the section roster and database. You can also update your email and member data on the Section web page at:
http://www.asntpnws.org/memberfi.html Meeting Questionaire Contributions from the membership have made this site what it was intended to be, a forum for the local ASNT membership. Please continue to contribute. Your comments are welcome.

COMING EVENTS


Golf Scramble - August 3, 2013

2012-2013 SECTION MEETING DATES

The meeting date is the second Thursday of the month unless otherwise noted. In case of last minute changes be sure to check the section website at http://www.asntpnws.org/.

Sept. 13 - Optical Strain Imaging, Jim Grosnickle, The Boeing Company
Nov. 8 - Ultrasonic Inspection of Composite Repairs, Keven Mandt, The Boeing Company
Oct. 11 - Tuskegee Airmen video highlights
Dec. 13 - Christmas Party at Jillian's Billiard Parlor
Jan. 10 - PS1000 X-scan GPR, Zachary Schafrath, Hilti NA
Feb. 14 - Section Night Out
March 14 - IR presentation & elections, Roy Goodall, Goodall Infrared
April 11 - Arctic Challenger NDT, elections, Jason Jarrett, G.L. Noble-Denton
May 13&14 - NDT of Composites, Topical
June - Spring Social
August 3, 2013 - Golf Tournament
August - BOD Planning Meeting for 2013-2014 Location TBD

AWARDS

Dave Hall of L & W Research joined other Pacific Northwest ASNT Fellows at the ASNT Fall Conference in Orlando, FL Oct. 29 through Nov. 1, 2012. Dave joins Bill Meade, Emery E. Roberts, Jim Pellicer, Flynn Spears, Steve LaRiviere, John DeBoo, Dr. Richard Bossi and 19 others. Give Dave an atta'boy when you see him.

LEVEL III CERTIFICATES

Certificates are available at each meeting to document your meeting attendance for Level III renewal points. See an officer for details

ADDRESS LABEL

The first line of the hard copy address label contains the member number followed by the expiration date of membership for that number

PRESIDENTS POINTS

It is important to remember that President's points is not about the points, it is about organization and management of the section operations. President's points are merely an indicator of the organization and management of the section.
The Pacific Northwest Section was the recepient of ASNT President's Award Program Gold Award in 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and is on track to repeat for 2012-2013 program years.

Message from the SOC Chair

Benefits of ASNT membership from the SOC chairperson

Dear Friends,
In light of the Wall Street roller coaster, corporate scandals, mergers, downsizing, and '60 Second' Business Plans, it has come to mind that many of us are not taking advantage of the most important benefit of ASNT - networking and its counterpart, education.

Networking is more than meeting new people, hearing the latest on who is retiring or changing jobs, or even what companies are doing well or not so well. Networking is educational! When people from the same industry meet, the conversation always turns to work. Every meeting I attend, I hear new and exciting information that stimulates the mind and helps me look at problems and solutions in a new way. Not only from a prepared speaker presentation, but from the questions asked of the speakers and the casual conversation of my colleagues. Often this information is not directly connected to the primary method of NDT used in my company. However, down the road a mental light comes on and I am able to apply what I heard to my efforts. In this way I am a more valuable employee.

Companies benefit from being actively involved in a local section and encouraging their employees to attend the meetings. By doing so, the employees have the opportunity to broaden their horizons, learn new things and think in creative ways. They can also take advantage of the educational programs offered through the section, benefiting both employer and employee. Attendance at regional and national meetings reap the same benefits only on a much larger scale.

It's no secret, many industry segments are an aging group. Many of my customers and colleagues have retirement on their minds. In my local section I am one of the younger members. This is not a good sign! Local section educational and mentoring programs will help bring young minds and talents to the industry, revitalizing it and the companies that comprise it.

Click here for your Regional Director's contact information.
Wishing you all the best in the coming year!
Marwan Basrawi
Chairman, Section Operations Council
Saudi Aramco
Box 8247
Dhahran 31311
Tel 966 38785921
Fax 966 38785925
 E-mail asnt-rd-19@mail.com
_______________________________________

The end

NDT of Composites Topical



Kick off to 2013-214 Program Year
Golf Scramble - August 3, 2013
Registration and Hotel information
—Current Program Year—
Meeting Report/Newsletter
Radiation Safety Seminar 2013
Section Night Out 2-16-2013
2012 Christmas Party photos
2012 Christmas Party Meeting Report
2012 Golf Scramble photos
2012 Golf Scramble Report
—Section Archives—
Spouses Outing 2-19-2012
Section Awards
Who/Where are they Now?
Online Yearbooks
Christmas Party 2009 Photos
Christmas Party 2010 Photos
Christmas Party 2011 Photos
Radiation Safety Seminar 2009
Radiation Safety Seminar 2011
Radiation Safety Seminar 2012
NDT EXPO 2004 Photos
NDT EXPO 2011 Photos
PNW-NDT EXPO 2011
Newsletter Archive
April 2012 meeting with TAI Photos
April 2012 meeting with TAI Photos II
2011 Golf Scramble results
Section Photos from the Past
—Questionaires—
Member Survey
Program Survey
—Section Membership—
Update Member Database
Web Site Statistics
Member Map
Section Leadership Manual
Meeting Attendance Record Form
—Legal Stuff—
Articles of Incorporation Sample
Certificate of Incorporation
Section Template WA Bylaws
Pacific Northwest Section Bylaws

Introduction to NDT
Regional Planning Meeting 2013
NDT of Composites Topical

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2012-2013 program
Regional Planning Meeting (RPM) in Las Vegas, May 17 and 18, 2013. Hosted by Regions 15 and 16
COLUMBIA RIVER SECTION
September 2013 Technical Meeting
2013-2014 Election Results
DATE:September 12, 2013
SPEAKER:TBD
DINNER:menu
TOPIC:TBD
TIMES:BOD     5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Social: 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Presentation: 7:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
LOCATION: Rock Salt, Steak & Seafood, Lake Union
1232 Westlake Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
206-284-1047

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