ASHRAE Golf Outing 2013 - Waikele Golf Club Donations for Lester Nakata and Fred Kohloss RP Funds June 19, 2013 11:45 AM - 11:45 PM Waikele Golf Course 94-200 Paioa Place Waipahu, HI 96797 http://www.golfwaikele.com $0.00 Gold Sponsorship $500 $0.00 Silver Sponsorship - $300 $0.00 Bronze Sponsorship - $200 $150.00 Entry Fee for Each Golfer $150.00 ASHRAE Golf Outing 2013

Welcome to ASHRAE Hawaii

From the Chapter President, Kevin Saito's Desk:

Aloha Fellow ASHRAErs,

Welcome to a new Society year at the Hawaii Chapter!  As with all transitions of administration, there’s a wave of gratitude to our beloved officers, Board of Governors, and program chairs who have so ably served our Chapter with distinction this past year.  Until you fill their shoes, it’s difficult to quantify the number of hours they have spent to make this past year the success that it was.  What’s even more difficult is how to quantify the amount of heart they put in to their volunteer jobs in addition to their full-time paying jobs!  Seeing just a portion of their efforts these past months, I can tell you it is considerable and we are very lucky indeed to have such dedicated and motivated members in our Chapter.  Mahalo to all and best wishes into the upcoming Society Year!

My thoughts turn instinctively to this coming year and the one word I would choose to characterize it for this Chapter.  After pondering many possibilities, I settled on GROWTH:

Grow the Chapter.

Grow our leadership.

Grow the member.

 This year, it is my intent to grow our Chapter by increasing our activities; not just Chapter or technical meetings but social meetings as well.  Though we profess our commitment to the HVAC industry, we are not just technical experts.  We are fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends, and neighbors as well.  While we’ll retain and improve our technical training this year, we’ll also provide activities so we can grow together as a community; one bound by technical expertise but not defined by it.  I would like to have more social events in addition to our technical events including activities for our families and friends so they can see the professionals we choose to associate with in a non-technical way.  As with any new undertaking, I don’t expect everyone to be at every social event but I hope there will be a diverse enough offering that we’ll see you at one of these events this coming year.

Growth of the Chapter can be measured in many ways: increase in membership, increase in donations, or increase in meeting attendance.  All of these are numbers we focus on as Chapter officers as does Region and Society.  There’s another growth category I am particularly interested in and that’s growth of our leadership.  You’ll note the change to include “shadow” positions to each of the Chapter Chairs filled by young engineers in our Chapter.  As they develop, so does the strength of our Chapter’s future.  We NEED them to become the leaders of tomorrow and to be ready to ascend the ranks as the Chapter needs them.

Finally, growth of the individual member.  As many of you who’ve read my Letter from the Editor page back when I was the Chapter newsletter editor, we face uncertain times and our best defense is to prepare for the future.  We grow in our jobs by learning new technical skill, we grow our business by making new contacts or deepening existing relationships, and we need to expand our skill sets to face unknown challenges.  Look for these opportunities right here in the Hawaii Chapter!  While ASHRAE is about sharing technical knowledge, our Chapter will also offer workshops to help you with non-technical yet critical skills.

It is my honor to serve as your Chapter President for this next Society year.  We have a great group of Chapter officers, Board of Governors, and Program Chairs who are looking forward to serving the Chapter.  If we may be of service to any of you, please let us know.  Mahalo and looking forward to meeting with all of you soon.

Paul "Scotty" Scott - OUTGOING PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE - Aloha and thank you for allowing me the great honor and privilege to serve Hawaii Chapter of ASHRAE as your President in 2011-12. SEE OUR ACTIVITIES in 2011-12.....click here.

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