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Closest-to-the-pin money ($70 per) went to Todd
Baker, No. 3; Molly Ranz, No.5; Scott Bartlett, No. 7; Dave Smith,
No. 13; and Steve Smith, No. 14. Longest drive honors went to
Dan Eckleman, who outdistanced everyone on the 9th and 18th holes
and walked away with two dozen golf balls.
And so it went June 21 at the Shamrock Golf Club
with the 120 members, affiliates, and guests of the Central Ohio
IFMA who took part in what was described by more than one as "one
of the best golf outings we've had."
The four-person scramble was played in mid-80-degree
weather with high winds and lots of sunshine, and men driving
from the white tees and women from the red. The clubhouse quickly
become the most popular spot at Shamrock as players completed
their four-five hour tour of the course and went in search of
libation and good conversation.
Dinner was served on the patio and under an enclosed
canopy. The menu consisted of the usual cookout fare: brats, burgers,
hotdogs, potato salad, baked beans, and cookies, a perfect prelude
to the awarding of prize money and the drawings for numerous gifts
from the chapter and the chapter's many generous friends and sponsors.
Gifts ran the gamut and included dozens of golf
balls, IFMA and Ohio State University sweatshirts and knit shirts,
several rounds of golf at Shamrock, putters, a driver, gift certificates
at restaurants, books, umbrellas, hats, and two glass-row tickets
to a November Blue Jackets' game.
Yankle, who assumed the responsibility for this
well-received event, acknowledged the assistance provided by Tim
O'Neil, Lynn Hoover, Dorothy Leachman, Craig Thomas, Molly Ranz,
Mark Haberman, and Angie Castner.
"But 90 percent of the credit goes to my secretary,
Debbie McCreary," Yankle said. "We couldn't have done it without
her."
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An interest in design and working with people
as a student at Whetstone High School in Columbus helped Vicki
Simons prepare for her position as a principal at NBBJ, the world's
fifth largest architecture practice.
Simons, who joined NBBJ in 1988, is a senior facilities
programmer and a member of the leadership team of the corporate
design studio.
NBBJ was formed in 1943 by four Seattle architects
who decided to pool their skills and resources to create the "consummate
architecture practice of a multi-specialty firm." In 56 years,
NBBJ has become a global practice with offices in Columbus, Los
Angeles, New York, Raleigh, San Francisco, and Seattle, and in
Oslo, Taipei, and Tokyo.
Simons also is a founding member of the Central
Ohio IFMA chapter and served as chapter president last year after
positions as vice president and co-chair of the Education, Program,
and Associate Relations committees.
Simons was graduated from Cornell University's
School of Human Ecology in 1973 with a bachelor of science degree
and a major in design and environmental analysis with concentration
in human and social factors of design. This has since become the
Facility Planning and Management Curriculum at Cornell.
She worked as a facilities planner/programmer
for Granzow and Guss, a small interior architecture firm for 11
years and then, as a result of a merger, for Lorenz and Williams,
an architecture and engineering firm, for three years before joining
NBBJ.
Her interests include aerobics, skiing, travel,
food and wine, and golf. The latter led to the question: "What
did you shoot at the IFMA Golf Outing?"
Her "evasive" response: "Even though I am one
of the world's worst golfers, I enjoyed the outing. I had a couple
of good putts and enough good shots to make me want to play again."
Simons and her husband, Tom McMahon, a telecommunications
technician with Digital Design, reside in northwest Columbus.
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Each summer thousands of central Ohioans "invade"
the spacious and well-kept grounds of the Chemical Abstracts Service
(CAS) along the banks of the Olentangy River.
They don't come to take advantage of the world's
largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information.
They're there to take advantage of some of the
summer's best live entertainment: The Columbus Symphony Orchestra
and its Picnic With the Pops Series, which CAS has hosted with
growing acclaim for many years.
Few of the revelers realize that what stands
before them is an organization that has been in existence for
nearly a century with the aim of monitoring, abstracting, and
indexing the world's chemistry-related literature.
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society,
was founded in 1907 at the University of Illinois, moved to The
Ohio State University two years later, and to its present location
just off the OSU campus in the 1970s.
It's there that some 1,200 employees index and
abstract patents, articles from approximately 8,000 scientific
journals, conference proceedings, and other documents pertinent
to chemistry. Last year alone, CAS scientists provided:
- Abstracts and indexing for 720,000 journal
articles, patents, and other research materials.
- CAS Registry Numbers and substance records
for more than three million chemicals and biosequences.
CAS databases are available through sophisticated
search and analysis software for the use of scientists engaged
in new product and patent research, and in academic research in
the world's leading universities.
In addition to the summer concert series, CAS
also is a local sponsor of the PBS television series NOVA and
a strong supporter of the Central Ohio IFMA Chapter through Frank
Healy, manager of facilities operations, and members of his staff.
Though not a member of IFMA himself, Healy is
proud of the fact that most of his professional staff are. Healy
sees the IFMA as a "great group from the standpoint of information
exchange and keeping in touch with our colleagues," and as a source
for hiring facility managers.
CAS associates under Healy who belong to IFMA
include: Bill Sopira, facilities services manager, and Steve Holcomb
and Janeen Carson, both facilities coordinators. Sally Gardner,
a former facilities manager and an active IFMA member, is now
offices services manager and no longer reports to Healy.
Healy has served in his present capacity at CAS
since 1982. He joined the organization 38 years ago as a chemistry
editor but quickly became involved in administrative functions
and has remained in that area since. He and his family reside
in Upper Arlington.
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