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About the Middle Tennessee Chapter

2009-2010 Chapter Officers

	President David Brooks (615) 519-0314		Vice President David Johnson, PE, CSP (615) 943-6199
	Vice President Chris Jones (615) 415-3755		Treasurer Bill Boehm, CSP (615) 872-3511
	Secretary Jimmy Whitehair, CSP (615) 902-5937		Past President Anthony Carter, CSP (615) 221-1514
	Past President & Scholarship Committee Chair Ron A. Kirsch, Ph.D. (615) 519-6133		Membership Chair Natae Bugg, CSP (615) 277-3115
	Driving Safety School Chair & Investment Committee Chair Keith Bain, CSP (615) 372-6070

Chapter History

In the spring of 1947, a group of safety professionals in the Middle Tennessee area met regularly to discuss and promote the safety and well-being of residents living and working in the Middle Tennessee area. The group is affiliated with American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the world's largest safety organization.

Since that first group gather in 1947, our Chapter has continued to be a significant member of the community, making numerous contributions.

Beginning in early 1970, in cooperation with the Nashville General Sessions Court , the Middle Tennessee Chapter established a once-a-month Driver Safety School for minor traffic offenders in Davidson County . A portion of the proceeds from the Driver Safety School was dedicated to the start-up and operation of the Guest House, a facility that provides a safe environment and shelter 24 hours a day for individuals in treatment as well as a safe alternative to jail for people arrested for public intoxication. Dr. Charles F. Strobel is the Founding Director of this program in partnership with the Metro Police Department, and operates from the Campus for Human Development in Nashville . Rachel Hester, a 17 year veteran of the organization, is the Executive Director.

In 1978, the Middle Tennessee Chapter co-sponsored along with the Tennessee Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA), a proposed one-time forum of all Tennessee safety professionals. By popular vote the forum has been continued each year, and has become the Tennessee Safety and Health Congress and Exposition. The Congress attracts thousands of delegates and hundreds of exhibitors on an annual basis. The Congress is now sponsored by the TOSHA Division of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the Tennessee Chapters of the American Society of Safety Engineers.

Tennessee was the first state in the nation to enact a mandatory child restraint law. Shortly after the law passage, the Middle Tennessee Chapter began to provide free child restraints through the Tennessee Highway Patrol and other organizations for distribution to needy families. The Save a Child program has continued and has grown significantly. Last year, we donated over 90 child restraints through local organizations.

Beginning in the late 1980's, the Chapter began providing scholarships to students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate safety programs in the area colleges and universities including Middle Tennessee State University and Murray State University .

Chapter membership is in excess of 270 members who maintain the mission of ASSE: to promote the advancement of the safety profession and foster technical, scientific, managerial and ethical knowledge, skills and competency of safety professionals.

Past Middle Tennessee Chapter Presidents

Year	Name	Sponsor
2009	David Brooks	Brooks Consulting Group
2008	Anthony (Corky) Carter	El Paso Corporation
2007	Ron A. Kirsch	PureSafety
2006	Ron A. Kirsch	PureSafety
2005	Ron A. Kirsch	PureSafety
2004	Anthony (Corky) Carter	El Paso Corporation
2003	Garey (Shane) Austin	Square D Company
2002	V. Kelley Work	Chubb Group Insurance Companies
2001	Mark Holley	Meridian Insurance
2000	Clarence Cothran	Turner Construction Company
1999	Ron Sears	EBI Companies
1998	R.R. (Rick) Jones	T.W. Frierson Contractor, Inc.
1997	R.R. (Rick) Jones	T.W. Frierson Contractor, Inc.
1996	David Johnson	Mosley & Associates
1995	Jim Fortier	Loss Control
1994	Keith Bain	Chubb & Son
1993	David Wilbur	Ingram Industries
1992	Rocky Jiroch	Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
1991	Cindy Byers	Aetna Casualty
1990	Jane Lyons	Service Merchandise
1989	Larry Carter	Sedgwick James
1988	Dave Weir	Rogers Group
1987	Phillip Trusty	The Hartford Insurance Company
1986	Dave Patterson	United Methodist Publishing House
1985	Hank Schiller	Contractor Industrial Supply
1984	Lee T. Fortier	Alexander & Alexander
1983	John Couch	Johnson & Higgins
1982	Ralph Mosely	GENESCO
1981	S.B. Weatherspoon	Rogers Group
1980	Lloyd Noel	Heil Quaker
1979	Billy Beard	Nashville Electric Service
1978	Keith Fosbinder	United Parcel Service
1977	Dave White McDowell	Brothers Construction Company
1976	Dave White McDowell	Brothers Construction Company
1975	Tom Ellis	The Hartford Insurance Company
1974	Guy Darst	DuPont DMT
1973	Gene Federman	USF & G
1972	L.P. Shaw	US Postal Service
1971	Howard Boyd	Metro Fire Department
1970	Tom Fortier	McKee Geny & Thornton
1969	Jerry White	USF & G
1969	Jim Oliver	GENESCO
1968	John Bryant	DuPont Construction
1967	Ray Dorris	CNA
1966	John Claxton	Southern Bell Telephone Company
1965	George L. Holmes, Jr.	Shelby Mutual Insurance Company
1964	Charles W. Flicek	DuPont Titanium Dioxide
1963	Cliff Hamilton	DuPont Fibers
1962	Cliff Hamilton	DuPont Fibers
1961	Talmadge V. Marier	Employers of Wausau
1960	Earl C. Jones	TVA Gallatin Steam Plan
1959	Earl C. Jones	TVA Gallatin Steam Plan
1958	Thomas B. Woody	Murray Ohio Manufacturing
1957	Earl C. Kegg	USF & G
1956	Harold F. Polston	Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
1955	E.P. Marconi	ARO, Inc.
1954	G.W. Sturm	DuPont Film
1953	E.D. Peeler	General Shoe Company
1952	E.D. Peeler	General Shoe Company
1951	Robert W. Fleming	Monsanto Chemical Company
1950	Leo R. Briley	US Corps of Engineers
1949	A.N. Allen	Monsanto Chemical Company
1948	Kirk E. Law	Nashville Transit Authority
1947	J.T. Brown	DuPont Fibers

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