Our seventh Annual Past President’s Dinner and Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship Award Ceremony as another awesome evening of history and celebration for the Sierra Chapter. On February 21st, your illustrious past presidents were joined by an assortment of members and guests including our Guest Speakers, Sacramento County Engineer Kent Craney and Mark Thomas Principal Matt Brogan. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening’s pageantry and presentations!
Although the parade of Past Presidents was impressive, the highlight for me was handing out the Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship check to Joseph Prescott of the University of the Pacific (see photo). Joseph was selected from a large pool of applications and was truly deserving. Susan Fleming Bentley was also in attendance and joined the ceremony. This was the 7th year of the scholarship. Remembering Tim’s legacy in this way is absolutely a win-win for our Chapter and the schools in our area. Thanks are also due the California Transportation Foundation (CTF), who administers the fund. In addition, the Sierra Chapter Board approved another $2,000 donation to the scholarship which is now an endowed scholarship!
Following the scholarship presentation, Kent Craney and Matt Brogan provided an excellent overview of the latest developments at Metro Air Park. This included the long history surrounding the site near the Sacramento International Airport, the fascinating Amazon project and the efforts to build a new interchange to serve the site.
Finally, Past Presidents joined us from as far back as 1994-1995, Paul Enneking (when we were still CELSOC) up through and including the most recent Past President, Dana Remington. After dinner, we gathered for the ritual “Past President’s Photo” see below. Thanks again to all the Past Presidents, Kent and Matt, Susan Fleming Bentley and our scholarship winner for making this another awesome Sierra Chapter event! 
