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WESTERN CAROLINA 195 - DISTRICT 8!

Our section has joined with the local ASNT section for the monthly meetings and activities.

We will be alternating duties month to month for organizing meetings, speakers, and such.

Date	Host / Speaker	Topic / Responsible Society
Sept. 16	Planning Meeting for the year	AWS & ANST
Oct. 21	Mike Dortch	AWS / Aluminum Welding
Nov. 18	Eric Eberius	ASNT Presentation for Fall Conference
Dec.	NO MEETING
Jan. 20	Panel Discussion – Bill Plumstead	ASNT
Feb. 17	TBD	AWS
Mar. 17	Student Night	AWS
Apr. 21	NDE Discussion	ASNT
May 19	Final Meeting for the year Planning for next year	AWS & ASNT

Buyers Guide / Year Book

We have completed the Regional Buyer’s Guide for 2007-2008; please take a moment to review it.

Click here to access: Year Book 2007-2008

2008 Golf Tournament

Post Tournament BBQ Dinner; Tournament Winners & Snack Cart Girls

The 4^th annual AWS Section 195 golf tournament was held on Saturday May 27, 2008 at the Village Green Golf and Country Club Inman, South Carolina. This tournament was started four years ago by the Section 195 board members to fund a scholarship for local welding students. All proceeds from the event go towards a scholarship for welding students in the upstate of the Carolinas that attend either Tri-County Technical college, Greenville Technical College, or Spartanburg Community College.

It has been a great success and has grown every year. The Section sponsored two welding students in the 2007-2008 school year and is planning to sponsor four students in the 2008-2009 school year.

There were Bar-be-que plates and a lot of door prizes after the tournament. The first place winner of this year’s tournament was Mike Dortch and his ALCOTEC Team.

AWS Section 195 would like to thank all the sponsors and participants who donated money, prizes and/or time to make this tournament a great success:

· BMW MC TS-K

· Bobby Underwood

· Lincoln Electric

· Custom Images

· Air Star Gases & Motorcycle

· Kearns Business Solutions

· Boiler Tube Company

· FedEx Kinko’s

· Cart Girls (Kali & Kali)

· Palmetto Creek Barbeque Jamie Satterwhite/Family

· Upstate Trophies

· Thyssen Krupp Nothelfer

· All 88 golfers who played

· Village Greens Golf & Country Club

· Nancy Dickson SCCS

· Oobe

· CPM Federal Credit Union

· Festo Pneumatics

· AWS Section 195

· BMW NA

· April Hewell (Goodrich)

A special thanks to Duke Moses, Section 195 Vice-Chairman for coordinating the tournament.

Section 195 Officers

WESTERN

CAROLINA

CHAIRMAN	Lawrence Whims 12 Cog Hill Dr. Simpsonville, SC 29681 E: jwhims@charter.net	TREASURER	Bob Fellers P: 864-940-0240 E: bfellers@charter.net
VICE CHAIRMAN	Duke Moses BMW MC 1400 Highway 101 South Greer, SC 29651 P: (864)228-0229 E: duke.moses@bmwmc.com	SECRETARY	Bill Allen BMW MC 1400 Hwy 101 South Greer, SC 29651 P: (864) 989-5305 F: (864) 989-6277 E: bill.allen@bmwmc.com
WEB MASTER	Paul Phelps Tri-County Technical College 7900 Highway 76 Pendleton, SC 29670 O: 864-646-1405 F: 864-646-1897 E: pphelps@tctc.edu	STUDENT LIAISON	Scott Brabham Tri-County Technical College 7900 Highway 76 Pendleton, SC 29670 O: 864-646-1406 F: 864-646-1897 E: dbrabham@tctc.edu

Student Night

The second Welding Student Night was a great success! We had approximately 150 people sign in and had 30-40 vendors and section members present. We would like to thank all that took part in the event from the organization, vendors, door prizes, giveaways, speakers, and countless of others that assisted that night. We look forward to hosting this event again in the future. Together through our efforts maybe we can put a small dent in the need for highly skilled welders in the industry.