A Salute to the SAME Half-Century Club
"With memberships in several engineering professional societies, my membership of over 50 years in The
Society of American Military Engineers has resulted in the most, the cloest, the longest, professional
associations and friendships in any of these societies.
"This is the only Society for which I continue to attend meetings regularly 20 years after retirement
from both military and civil service careers. What a delight!!!"
Maj. Donald P. Samanie, P.E. , USA (Ret.)
"A great part of my military and civilian professional careers were spent on assignments and
projects oversears. SAME was always present, directly or indirectly, providing professional and community
support to me."
Cmdr. Bruno Carioti, P.E., USN (Ret.)
"I joined The Society as a young officer who knew practically nothing about anything, in the hope
that from it and its publication [The Military Engineer] I might learn at least what military engineers were
doing, where and how thye were doing it, and where they were getting the information on how to do it best...
"To my great satisfication, the organization, publications and chapters did, in fact, supply a lot of
information."
Col. William W. Smith Jr., P.E., USA (Ret.)
"I am proud to be a professional soldier and I am proud to be a professional engineer. Only SAME
allows me to celebrate both on a regular basis."
Col. Harry Lombard, P.E., USA (Ret.)
"It is hard for me to believe that my membership in The Society goes back almost 60 years, since early
in WWII. Over those years, at posts throughout the world, it has been my professional and social fraternity.
"I have found the greatest asset of SAME membership to be the opportunity to get to know, and learn from,
engineers of the other services and leaders in the construction industry. Thank you, SAME."
Col. James B. Meanor Jr., P.E., USA (Ret.)
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