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Gary D. Sawyer Award: Drew Lane
This award recognizes
the associate member
who has made significant
contributions at the local or
state level to the industry
and/or association.
For several years, our award winner ran
the weigh-in for the local Chapter fishing
tournament. Moreover, he has also taken
an active role in selling raffle tickets for the
raffle held during the fishing tournament.
At the Chapter sporting clay challenge, our
nominee participates as a shooter as well as
helping calculate the scores at the end of
the tournament, though I’m not sure if this
has ever helped his final score or not. He
is well-known throughout NUCA of North
Florida to always be dependable and does
any job willingly with a smile on his face.
This year’s stand-out has
served on his local chapter’s
event committees since he
became actively involved in the association
six years ago. He is active on committees
generating sponsorships and participants
for local Chapter events. He has manned a
Vendor Showcase booth for his company at
the Chapter golf tournament for the past few Our nominee is currently employed by
Advanced Drainage Systems and has
years. In addition, he has also helped sell
been a star employee with them since
mulligans prior to the golf tournament.
2010. He graduated from the University of
With the help of others, he has been
Alabama with a Major in Civil & Construction
instrumental in the establishment of the
Engineering. In addition to being a dynamic
local Young Professionals Group. The group member of our association, he is also a
has met several times since forming last
member of the Florida Engineering Society,
year. The Young Professionals group was
Florida Transportation Builders Association,
established to get younger employees of
American Society of Civil Engineers and &
our member firms to develop relationships
JEST.
with other young members in the
For all these reasons, Drew Lane is our 2019
association hoping that they will recognize
Gary D. Sawyer Award winner.
the importance of the association and
participate in other events.
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DITCHMEN • OCTOBER 2019