To : Members

Date: June 8, 1999

Dear Members:

We have been communicating with about half of the members since October 1999 through e-mail. This communication has four purposes: Announce a plant trip, request your vote for election of officers for 1999-2000, request your vote for upgrading our group to subsection and request to update your data on the web page.

The second sheet of this letter is self addressed and stamped. Please fold it into three, tape it and mail it ASAP. Deadline for counting of election votes is June 24, 1999.

It is the desire of the executive committee to enhance the activities of group by upgrading from our current status as a group to a subsection of Delaware Section. The upgrade provides us with an increase in funding allotment from ASME headquarters from $225 to $450 annually without any change in responsibility as an entity under Delaware Section.

It is imperative that you respond to upgrade petition. To approve the upgrade 51% of members must respond and majority of respondents must approve the upgrade. Please respond ASAP not to waste our stamp!

We established our web page on Department of Technology server at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in October 1999. Now the web page is residing on the ASME server. Our web address is:

http://www.asme.org/sections/delmarva

Please visit the web page to check your personal information, especially e-mail, to make it sure that it is correct. If you have received this information by e-mail it means that your e-mail address is correct. If you did not receive it and you have an e-mail address or you want to change it, please, provide the information on the second page of this letter.

Tom Haines arranged a plant trip to visit Kary Asphalt Inc. Eden Asphalt Plant for June 24 at 6 p.m. After the trip we shall have dinner at Adam's Ribs. For planning purposes, please, indicate on the second page, drop me an e-mail(eyilmaz@umes-bird.umd.edu) or give me a call(410-651-6470) if you are planning to attend. Spouses and children(15 years of age and older) are welcome. This asphalt plant is a drum mixer type and is rated to produce 350 tons per hour of asphalt.

From the south of Salisbury: Take Route 13 North through Princess Anne and proceed about 5 to 8 miles. Take a right onto Old Eden Road which is about a 100 yards before the southern end of the 13 Bypass around Salisbury. There will be a Shore Stop on the left side of the road and a wood processing plant on the right side of the road which is Old Eden Road. The asphalt plant is right behind the wood processing plant on Old Eden Road. Three asphalt storage silos stick up behind the wood processing plant that will identify our tour location.

From north of Salisbury: Take Route 13 and the 13 Bypass around Salisbury. Take the first left onto Old Eden Road just south of where the 13 bypass and 13 Business come together at the south end of Salisbury. There will be a Shore Stop on the right side of the road and a wood processing plant on the left side of the road which is Old Eden Road. The asphalt plant is right behind the wood processing plant on Old Eden Road. Three asphalt storage silos stick up behind the wood processing plant that will identify our tour location.

From the East or West of Salisbury: Take Route 50 to the Route 13 Salisbury Bypass. Head South on the bypass. Take the first left onto Old Eden Road just south of where the 13 bypass and 13 Business come together at the south end of Salisbury. There will be a Shore Stop on the right side of the road and a wood processing plant on the left side of the

road which is Old Eden Road. The asphalt plant is right behind the wood processing plant on Old Eden Road. Three asphalt storage silos stick up behind the wood processing plant that will identify our tour location.

We hope to see you at the plant trip.

Have a nice summer.

Sincerely,

Emin Yilmaz

ASME DELMARVA Group Secretary

Please vote for upgrading to subsection or leaving it as a Group.

--- YES, upgrade to subsection --- NO, leave it as a Group

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Signature Date

The following persons were nominated at our last meeting to be our officers for next year. Please place an "X" in front of each name to approve the nomination. You may write-in the names for each position also.

Chair: --- William Hargrove, Pokomoke City, MD

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Vice Chair: --- Thomas Haines, Salisbury, MD

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Secretary: --- Dr. Emin Yilmaz, P.E., Salisbury, MD

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Treasurer: --- Ray Jackson, Snow Hill, MD

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I do not want to list the following information on our web page (place an "X" for the ones that you do not want to list):

---- My Name ---- My e-mail ---- My City ---- My Telephone # (Home/office/both)

---- I did not receive this letter by e-mail. My e-mail address is:

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