Academy of Fellows

The SAME Academy of Fellows recognizes those members who have rendered dedicated and outstanding service to the Society, military engineering, and the A/E/C profession. SAME has bestowed the title of Fellow on select members since 1972; however in 1995 an academy was founded to formally acknowledge these distinguished individuals for their dedication to SAME and the A/E/C profession. Today, there are more than 800 members of the Academy of Fellows.

• List of Fellows
• Mentoring Scorecard 
• Mentoring Continuum
• AOF Charge & Pledge
  
• AOF Operations Manual - Revised 9-20-18 
• History of the Academy of Fellows
• How to Nominate a Fellow

Annual Fellows Events

Each year, the SAME Academy of Fellows sponsors and helps support a number of events including mentoring activity at the Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo, luncheons in connection with other SAME national events, and nominations for Fellow, Golden Eagle Awards, and the Gerald C. Brown Mentoring Award.

The Academy’s three major events—Golden Eagle Awards Dinner, Fellows Investiture Ceremony, and one of the AOF Luncheons (sometimes in conjunction with a Conclave)—are held together each March in the Washington, D.C. area as part of SAME Capital Week.

Golden Eagle Awards Dinner

Fellows Conclave

The conclave offers discussions and activities to challenge and inspire Fellows personally and professionally. SAME members who have achieved the distinction of Fellow represent the most dedicated and influential individuals in the Society. The conclave will offer the opportunity to work together to find ways that the Academy of Fellows can actively and effectively live the Fellows charge and pledge.

• AOF Conclave Notes Aug 2016
• AOF Conclave Notes Mar 2018
• AOF Action Plan as presented at 2018 JETC

Fellows Awards Program

The SAME Academy of Fellows presents three awards each year—the Golden Eagle Award for Contributions to National Security, the Golden Eagle Award for Contributions to the A/E/C Profession, and the Gerald C. Brown Mentoring Award.

Golden Eagle Award

The Academy of Fellows will honor two outstanding Americans: an SAME Fellow for outstanding contributions to the engineering profession; and a prominent leader for significant contributions to national security. The Golden Eagle Dinner is a prestigious event where all members of the government and military engineering, construction and architecture industries are encouraged to attend. Golden Eagle Award nominations are handled through the Academy of Fellows leadership.

Gerald C. Brown Mentoring Award

SAME created a Mentoring Award in 2005 to recognize Fellows for outstanding mentoring efforts. In 2009, the award was renamed the Gerald C. Brown Mentoring Award in honor of Brig. Gen. Gerald C. “Jed” Brown, USA (Ret.), who chaired the Working Group that formalized organizing the Fellows into an Academy in 1994 and served as the first chair in 1995.

Academy Leadership

Executive Committee

The Academy of Fellows is led by a chair and several vice chairs who ensure that the academy’s major events, awards and Fellows support to other SAME events and the Strategic Plan is carried out.

Chair		Lt. Col. Wendell "Buddy" Barnes, P.E., F.SAME, USA (Ret.)
Deputy Chair		Richard "Rad" Delaney, AIA, LEED AP, F.SAME
Vice Chair, Communications & Marketing		Melissa Smith, F.SAME
Vice Chair, Recognition		Lt. Col. John Osborn, F.SAME, USA (Ret.)
Vice Chair, Events		Sally Riker, F.SAME
Vice Chair, Internal		Ann Ewy, F.SAME
Vice Chair, External		Lt. Col. Scott Prosuch, F.SAME, USA (Ret.)
SAME Executive Director		Brig. Gen. Joseph Schroedel, P.E., F.SAME, USA (Ret.), SAME
SAME Staff Point of Contact		Kathy Off, CGMP, PMP, SAME

Distinguished Fellow Advisory Committee

The first group of Distinguished Fellows was agreed upon by the National Leadership Team in May 2018 from the entire list of Fellows, using distinct criteria that demonstrated their continued dedication to the Society since becoming a Fellow.  The below Distinguished Fellows constitute the Advisory Committee to the Fellows Leadership above.

Capt. James Donahue, P.E., F.SAME, USCG (Ret.)		Col. Anthony Leketa, P.E., F.SAME, USA (Ret.)
Maj. Gen. Eugene Lupia, P.E., F.SAME, USAF (Ret.)		Linda McKnight, F.SAME
Jane Penny, P.E., F.SAME		Harold Rosen, F.SAME

Regional Fellows Points of Contact

Each of SAME’s 17 regions has a Fellows Regional Point of Contact to ensure that Fellows throughout each region are kept abreast of happenings within the Academy of Fellows and to be able to solicit support for local, regional and national events.

California		John Accardi Jr., F.SAME, Weston Solutions Inc.
Carolinas		Jury Y. Brown, III, P.E., F.SAME, ZAPATA
Europe		AOF Deputy Chair acts as interim POC
Great Lakes		Philip Spalding, P.E., F.SAME, Tetra Tech, Inc.
Lower Mississippi		CUCM (SCW) Rodger Aitken, P.E.,  F.SAME, USNR (Ret.), PWD Mid-South
Mid-Atlantic		Capt. James H. "Jim" Donahue, P.E.,  F.SAME, USCG (Ret.)
Missouri River		David A. Packard, R.A., PMP, F.SAME, USACE
New England		Sheila Warren, F.SAME, Geocomp Corp.
North Atlantic		Amy D'Alonzo-Basehoar, KOMAN Holdings, LLC.
Northwest		Martin J. "Marty" Boivin, P.E., F.SAME, Shannon & Wilson Inc.
Ohio Valley		Timothy N. "Tim" Kyper, P.E., F.SAME, DiGioia, Gray & Associates, LLC
Pacific		Capt. William F. "Will" Boudra, P.E., F.SAME,  USN (Ret.), NAVFAC Pacific
Rocky Mountain		Col Ronald A. Torgerson, P.E., CPMP, CHS-V, F.SAME, USAF (Ret.)
South Atlantic		Gwen Parker, F.SAME, The Parker Connection
South Central		Mike Thompson, P.E., F.SAME, Thompson Engineering
Southwest		Allan Dalpias, P.E., F.SAME
TEXOMA		Jim O'Brien, P.E., F.SAME, O'Brien Engineering Inc.

 Past Chairs of the Academy

Communications

E-mails pertaining to Fellows are sent via the SAME database.  It is imperative that your record is up-to-date if you want to receive Fellows Communications.  To update your record, you must login (top of the page) and then click on "Member Account" in the left menu.

• Letter from the Chair, 6-6-18
• Letter from the Chair, 7-5-18
• Letter from the Chair, 9-28-18