October 2000 Dinner Meeting
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Cricenti, PE spoke on fire protection engineering to a captive audience
at the Makris restaurant in Concord on October 24th, 2000. Lecture
topics included an explanation of the events that led to the tragic
warehouse fire in Worchester, MA and an overview of the latest engineering
techniques in fire protection. |
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Annual Meeting 2000
The NHSPE annual meeting was held in May, which marked the induction of this year's board of directors and the beginning of a new year for NHSPE. A list of this year's board members is provided on the back page of this newsletter, including numbers where they can be reached. NHSPE's President this year is Judith Houston, P.E. Judy has been active in NHSPE for many years now, including holding many of the positions on the Board over the years. We look forward to her leadership this year. New to the Board this year are William Straub, P.E. - Vice President, Holly Gallagher, P.E. - Secretary, and Paul Schmidt, P.E. - State Director. NHSPE has a busy year scheduled and the new Board is looking forward to continuing the goals of supporting the professional engineer.
The annual meeting is largely a social event. In that spirit, this year's meeting including a tour of the Nutfield Brewery in Derry, followed by a social hour and dinner at The Yard restaurant in Manchester. Attendees were provided a sample (or two) of Nutfield's finest ales and were given a tour of the micro-brewery and bottling plant. The tour included a description of the brewing process from start to finish including discussion of hops, wort, fermentation, and bottling, packaging and marketing.
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| This year's meeting included a tour of the Nutfield Brewery in Derry. | Members
of the new board of directors, standing from left: David Eckman,
William Straub, Paul Schmidt, John Alger, Mathew Purcell, Holly
Gallagher, Lee Carroll. (Absent were Judith Houston, George Fredette,
Joseph Ducharme) |
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| Members got a chance to sample brews at the Nutfield Brewery | Dinner
was at The Yard in Manchester |