The March officers meeting and luncheon featured Thomas W. Krusemark, procurement center representative for the U.S. Small Business Administration, as the guest speaker. Krusemark is responsible for procurement center duties for all Defense Department activities and missions at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, as well as for Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency operations in Cincinnati. Also at the meeting, Gerald Tritle, chapter president, presented Tech Sgt. Michael Fay, USAF, chapter enlisted membership director, with a gold watch for being selected the regional Distinguished Young AFCEAN. Tritle and Norman Nelson, corporate membership diorector, additionally presented a plaque of recognition to new corporate member JELCO Incorporated of Wheeling, Illinois. JELCO provided the chapter with a large plasma screen monitor to display photos for its recent scholarship event.