July/August 2015 | 33
In the Spotlight
Brian Chromey won the Distinguished Alumni Award for the
Volgenau School of Engineering from the George Mason University
Alumni Association. Chromey, director of engineering at Wetland
Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), earned his bachelor's degree from
Mason's Urban Systems Engineering Program, now known as Civil,
Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering. Congratulations, Brian!
In Memoriam
Retiree Therell Efird passed away on
March 12. He was vice president for south
central utility services.
We are saddened by the loss of Craig
Huntsman, who passed away on April 2.
He was a director of joint use management
for Davey Resource Group.
We are saddened by the loss of Anthony
Wright, who passed away on April 28.
He was a foreman at the Raleigh office.
Famous
Davey Face
Kirk Miller, foreman for Davey's North
Minneapolis R/C office, entered a Facebook
"selfie contest" for SherrillTree, an arborist
supply and tree care retailer, and landed a
front page cover photo on the 2015 catalog,
pictured here. "I entered the contest for fun
because I order a lot of my equipment from
SherrillTree," Miller says. "I didn't expect to
get on the front page cover."
On the Job
Margie Conner won the 2015 Kent
State University Accounting Alumni of
the Year award at the College of Business
Administration Spring Awards Banquet on April 24. Conner,
assistant secretary and counsel in the treasury department at
the corporate office, graduated from Kent State in 1980 with
a bachelor's degree in accounting and business management.
Congratulations, Margie!
Jason Henning, research urban forester for the Davey Institute,
delivered a presentation about i-Tree and its upcoming new tools to
approximately 100 people during the Delaware Arborist Symposium.
The presentation provided a variety of examples showing how
attendees could put the tools to work in maximizing the benefits trees
provide, from single homeowner to landscape scales. Henning points
out, "Delaware has a lot of interesting urban forestry opportunities, so
this was a great chance to engage a new audience."
Dana Karcher won the 2015 Western
Chapter of the International Society of
Arboriculture (WCISA) Award of
Commendation this spring. Karcher, market
manager, western region of Davey Resource
Group, is the ISA nominating and elections
committee chair, as well as WCISA past
president. Congratulations, Dana!
Jim Zwack presented "Learning Lessons from the Emerald Ash
Borer" during the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) 2015
National Conference, Tree Health Resilience and Sustainability.
Zwack, director of technical services at the Davey Institute, joined
other professionals from the U.K. and other nations across the globe
to explore challenges currently and potentially facing the U.K.'s
forestry and arboricultural programs and which changes they need
to make to tackle those issues.
