We are excited to be hosting our annual meeting again at Wild Dunes Resort in September 2023! In order to provide accurate head counts for our events, please register by 9/15/23.

PLEASE NOTE that we offer sponsorship options without accompanying registration. If you will be attending the event, please be sure to add one of the TICKET options to your cart.

Prospective members can attend for free; please contact us for details. 

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - Early Arrival

 Thursday, September 21, 2023

-Golf: 11AM-5:30PM

-Thursday Night Idigo Rooftop & Ballroom Dinner at the Sweet Grass Inn 6th Floor @ Wild Dunes Resort, 6:00 PM.

Friday, September 22, 2023 (Tides Ballroom AB)

-7:30AM: Breakfast Buffet, Tides Foyer AB (SPOUSES INVITED)

-8:30AM - 9:45AM  Howard Stevens "Look for and Build on Life's Positives"

When Howard Stevens was in the sixth grad his teacher asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said play pro football. That’s a great answer but Howard was probably the smallest kid in the class. His teacher encouraged him and offered some advice as to how to proceed. Part of that advice was to transfer to a school that had a football team.He did. He volunteered to help integrate an all white high school across town along with 9 other students.   Howard was an outstanding  high school football player and continued the same in college. First at a Division 3 college and then at a division 1 university at Louisville. Howard got drafted into the NFL in the 16th round. The next to the last round by the New Orleans Saints. He was later traded to the Baltimore Colts where he finished his career.   After football Howard went into financial service as a regional manager for a subsidiary of the Travelers insurance company. Howard is married to Joyce for 51 years. They have 3 children and 7 grand children. Howard and Joyce currently live in Wake Forest NC. 

-10:00AM - 11:00AM: Elliot Bass (Peddinghaus) and Curtis Hayes (Lincoln Electric) present "The Future of Fabrication"

Curtis Hayes is the Southeast Regional Sales and Applications Representative for Lincoln Electric Cutting Solutions. He spent the first half of his career providing solutions for customers to weld better and faster on heavy weldments for the Oil and Gas, and Shipbuilding industries in South Louisiana. With a passion for automation, he now serves the Structural Steel industry focusing on automated fabrication technologies. Curtis earned his degrees in Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science & Engineering from The University of Toledo.

Elliott Bass is the East Coast Regional Manager for Peddinghaus Corporation. He has over 15 years in the Structural Steel Industry. Elliott began his career with Peddinghaus in parts and consumable sales and has since moved through the company gaining valuable experience in various positions such as system layout and product management. Elliott earned a degree from Knox College in Economics and Business Management. 

-Golf: 11:00AM - 5:30PM

-Poolside Dinner: 6:30 PM, Grand Pavilion - South Pool

Saturday, September 23, 2023 (Tides Ballroom AB)

-7:30AM: Continental Breakfast, Tides Ballroom AB Foyer

-8:30AM - 9:45AM: Minnick Enterprises presents "Constructing High Performance Teams: Disc + WG + NKD"

Monique Minnick is a 27-year Veteran of the United States Air Force who successfully led human resource, strategic planning, change management and transformation teams at all levels within the Federal Government and in collaboration with Sister Services, active duty, Reserve and Guard.  A trailblazer with a career of “firsts", she integrated women into combat engineering units, was the first female Air Force ROTC instructor at the Virginia Military Institute, ushering in the first class of women, and one of five hand-selected Active Guard Reserve (AGR) officers integrating the Air Force Headquarters staff at the Pentagon to ensure policies were adjusted and implemented to ensure the right person in the right position, regardless of military component.  

She facilitates personal and professional growth as the Owner of Minnick Enterprises LLC and as an Executive Director with the Maxwell Leadership Team by using tools such as The Maxwell  Method Communication Impact Report to hire the right person, lower turnover rates, improve poor behavior quicker, increase team productivity, construct high performing /cohesive teams, and develop future leaders.  Monique believes people are an organization’s greatest resource, and they deserve to be trained and developed to achieve their full potential, not only for the benefit of the organization but their community and most importantly, their self.  Everyone deserves to be led well!

-10:00AM - 11:00AM: Gold Sponsers "Who We Are and What We Do For the Steel Industry"

-Close of Annual Meeting

-On Your Own in Charleston, SC

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