{"id":75,"date":"2019-06-18T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sawe.org\/kittyhawk\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2019-06-18T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:35:17","slug":"chapter-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/chapter-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Chapter History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers (SAWE) was organized in 1939 in Los Angeles, California, and incorporated 2 April 1941<\/li><li>First national conference was in Dayton in Feb 1941<\/li><li>Our Chapter was formed at the conference as the Wright-Patt Chapter.<\/li><li>Approximately 1947-1955 chapter suspended operations and became OHIO chapter.<\/li><li>In 1949 conference was held in Dayton<\/li><li>March 1967, Ohio Valley (Cincinnati) joined our Chapter<\/li><li>In 196(?) Chapter was notified that we could not use the name Wright-Patt or any derivative of Wright-Patterson AFB in our name.<\/li><li>After lengthy discussion and a vote of the local Chapter members, we changed our name to the Kittyhawk chapter in 196(?).<\/li><li>In the 1960\u2019s, our Chapter conducted Advanced Analysis conferences with papers presented from experts around the country.<\/li><li>In 197(?), again after much discussion, the Society\u2019s name was changed to the Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE)<\/li><li>In 1981, the 40<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference was held in Dayton OH.\u00a0 The conference committee was Tom Oole, chairman; Jim Folck, vice chair; Henry Weiler, Budget and Finance; Ted Muha, Hotel and Events; Bill Yinger, Host; Roger Bullock, Program, Publicity, Photography and Special Events; Charles Call and David Kraus, Registration; David Koehler, Technical Papers; Ed Langleben and Dick Mueller, Vendor; and Pat Folck and Steve Powers, Technical Tour and Ladies Events.<\/li><li>In the mid-1980\u2019s, our Chapter started USAF user conference.<\/li><li>In the 1990\u2019s, our Chapter expanded user conferences to all services.<\/li><li>In 2004, our Chapter expanded user conference, traveling around the country and changed the name to World Wide User Conference thanks to Irv Schaff.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers (SAWE) was organized in 1939 in Los Angeles, California, and incorporated 2 April 1941 First national conference was in Dayton in Feb 1941 Our Chapter was formed at the conference as the Wright-Patt Chapter. Approximately 1947-1955 chapter suspended operations and became OHIO chapter. In 1949 conference was held in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/kittyhawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}