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In an opening ceremony at the September 8 luncheon, RADM Michael Giorgione (Ret.) presented COL Stewart Bornhoft, P.E., PMP, USA (Ret.) the prestigious Fellows medal in honor of his over 30 years of dedication to SAME and his exemplary accomplishments during his 28 years of active duty and 15 years of industry service.


CAPT Bornhoft served as President of three SAME Posts, including San Diego. He joined SAME in 1979, while an instructor of Electrical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Col. Bornhoft commanded a combat engineer company in Vietnam and later commanded two USACE Districts: Omaha, Neb., and Charleston, S.C. In 1985, he was awarded the SAME Wheeler Medal for outstanding engineering achievement in managing the largest peacetime troop construction project in the history of USACE, overseeing the upgrading of Army training ranges in Europe. During his final duty assignment as Director of Public Works at Fort Sill, Okla., Col. Bornhoft was appointed by the Secretary of the Army as Defense Coordinating Officer overseeing all Department of Defense support as onsite decision-maker immediately following the Oklahoma City bombing. He has given numerous presentations at SAME Regional and Post events and served on various small business, scholarship and audit committees.


Pictured from left: COL Stewart Bornhoft (Ret.) and RADM Michael Giorgione (Ret.)

A representative from Rescue Task Force was on hand at our October lunch to take monetary and material donations for Project Not Forgotten, a program that provides needed supplies and comfort to wounded military personnel.


A message from founder, Andrea Stone: “The most difficult things to purchase are CD players and TracFones. The Tracfones are $9.99 and there is a limit to 2 per person per purchase. If everyone could stop by a CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, Target or Walgreens and pick up 2 tracfones that would be an amazing gift. CD players are also hard to come by. We try to find them for $20 or less and they just aren’t available in too many places anymore.”


Visit the Project Not Forgotten webpage at www.projectnotforgotten.org for more information.