SURVEYORS ASSOCIATION OF WEST JERSEY

SURVEYORS’ ASSOCIATION OF
WEST JERSEY
November 12, 2009
MINUTES OF MEETING
Carlucci’s Waterfront
876 Centerton Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

President Bill Haggerty called the meeting to order at 7:15 PM. 17 members and 2 guests were present.

GUEST SPEAKER
President Bill introduced our guest speaker, Ken Hayes of Aqua Survey Inc., Flemington, New Jersey. Ken spoke about many unusual projects that they have done. Consistent with their name, Aqua Survey, most of their projects were over deep water using boats and high tech equipment. This specialized work took them to many far-off locations, including Mexico, Catalina Island off the coast near Los Angeles, Honolulu, Egypt, and Korea. Their treasure-hunting often required geophysical-surveying and accurate-positioning methods. They developed two new patents for a plastic core barrel with a sensor to determine if metal was nearby.

Ken spoke about searching underwater for: lost bombs, canisters of mustard gas, lost precious metals including coins and silver bars. These treasure-hunt-stories were particularly interesting. He told us of finding some Cleopatra pottery, underwater-art, and three lost cities now submerged near Egypt.

Anther interesting project that Ken told us about was a contract for the Korean Government. They were seeking to locate an antique “Turtle Ship”, from about the year 1592. Korea wants to recover and preserve it as a museum exhibit. Ken also passed around some old relics, including: gold coins and a 400 year-old forged-iron gun (harquebus). Ken closed with questions from the audience President Bill thanked Ken for a very interesting presentation.

At 9 PM President Bill re-convened the business meeting.

ELECTION OF 2010 OFFICERS
President Bill announced the following:
President: Richard M. Sapio
Vice President: Keith M. Ludwig
Recording Secretary: Allan R. Ritchie
Corresponding Secretary: John J. Donovan
Treasurer: Peter G. Burgess
Sergeant of Arms: Robert J. Ashley
1 year Director: Robert E. Lee, Louis J. Marchuk
Board of Directors: Richard Federico

MINUTES OF PRIOR MEETING
Bill announced that the Minutes for the last meeting held on October 7, 2009 have been lost someplace in the electronic transmission. They will be posted on the web site when found.

TREASURER’S REPORT
Pete Burgess, Treasurer, was absent, hence no report this month.

NJSPLS DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Lou Marchuk gave a verbal summary about the last meeting of the NJSPLS Board of Directors. When minutes of the meeting are available he will submit them for posting on our web-site. http://www.sawj.org/node/114

OLD BUSINESS (None)

NEW BUSINESS
Lou Marchuk moved: that he be appointed and authorized to be the “liaison person” between SAWJ and ASHE (American Society of Highway Engineers). Lou stated that there would be no cost to SAWJ for this service as he planned to personally pay for all costs. The motion was seconded by Harold Bozarth and passed by 100% vote of the membership present.

President Bill announced that Robert W. Telschow Jr. a TWT employee has been awarded the “NJSPLS Technician of the Year” and will be presented the award at the banquet at the NJSPLS Convention in Atlantic City.

Robert Ashley won tonight’s 50-50 drawing. He contributed his winnings to the Scholarship Fund.

President Bill said that our next meeting will be on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. This will be a Holiday Dinner Celebration with no guest speaker. It will be open to all: members, spouses, families and friends.

At 9:30 PM. it was moved to adjourn the meeting; seconded, and approved by voice vote.

Allan Ritchie, Recording Secretary