Honors and Awards

 
I have been able to achieve the top leadership position
in almost every organization I have ever joined and 
this dates all the way back to high school when I was 
president of the junior class at North Bend High in 1948.  

One of my favorite positions was in ROTC at the University of Nebraska.  In my senior year, I was promoted to the highest position in the entire Air Force ROTC.  As Commander,  I was the only cadet  with the rank of Colonel in 1953 – 1954.

 I joined several technical and lay organizations in my career as an engineer and was promoted up through the ranks in each of them, usually as one or more project chairmanships, secretary, treasurer,  member of the Board of Directors, vice president and then President and past president.  This was true in each of the following organizations:

 

              NSPE –  National Society of Professional Engineers

                           President of both the Omaha Chapter and the

                           Statewide Nebraska chapter (NeSPE)

              ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers

                           Chairman {President) of the Omaha Chapter

                           and the Statewide Nebraska Chapter

              PTC  –  Power Technology Conference

                           Founder and first President

 

SI  –    Serra International was founded by a group of Catholic laymen to promote and  support Catholic priests and vowed religious vocations in the Catholic Church.

              In 2012 I received an awarded for completing more than 50 years of service in the Serra Club of Omaha where I served as president and in many other positions.