Our sympathy is extended to the family of recently SCS/SNC retiree Stanley Sundar Vasa who passed way on Monday, July 29, 2013.  Services were held on Saturday, August 3, at Currie Jefferson Funeral Home.

Janice Thies suffered a TIA during preparation for her chemo treatment several weeks ago.  She is now at home, and John reports no lasting effects from the TIA.

My internet service has been down for approximately 2 weeks, therefore the following information was delayed.

Liz Winter

6/29/2013 8:37 AM

Our retiree group sends get well wishes to Jackie Brill Walton, wife of SCS/SNC retiree, Wayne Walton.  Jackie fell at home about three weeks ago and suffered four breaks in her leg and ankle.  She is now at home and undergoing therapy.  She will not be able to put weight on her leg for six weeks.

Liz Winter

Interesting organizational changes at SCS:

From: “Flowers, Kimberly D.”
Date: July 12, 2013, 3:44:33 PM CDT
Subject: Technical Services Announcement

Technical Services Organizational Moves

In an effort for E&CS to increase our resources in operations and leverage our talent, we are pleased to announce the following E&CS Technical Services organizational moves:

Ronald Raines will be assuming the role of Operations Manager in Technical Services, replacing Ken Carr. Ronald began his career at Alabama Power in 1983 at Gorgas Steam Plant where he spent 25 years in several classifications before progressing to an Operations Specialist and Operations Team Leader. Ronald has served in the Operations Manager role at various locations since 2008 including plants Branch, Watson, and Gaston. He has also been heavily engaged with the ACE Operations Excellence team serving as a subject matter expert for supercritical units. His extensive experience prepares Ronald for this new role where he will be able to influence Southern Company Generation’s operations strategy going forward. Ronald’s responsibilities will be for the overall Operational focus, including Monitoring & Diagnostic Center, OIS initiatives and heat rate.

Ken Carr will now be solely focused on his role as Fleet Asset Manager. With the addition of Ronald joining the organization in the Operations Manager role, this will allow Ken to be dedicated full time towards the optimization of our environmental technologies around our fleet projects and ensure that consistency and best practices are in place during our implementation of our scrubber’s and baghouses. Ken recently achieved 40 years of service within Southern Company where he has worked in GPTS, Fuels Department and in several plants as an operations manager, engineering manager, fuel handling manager and assistant plant manager. Ken’s knowledge, experience and relationships across the fleet makes him well suited for these responsibilities within E&CS.

Additionally, Randy Stovall and the Generations Plant Performance group will move over to the Technical Services Mechanical Field Support group and will report to Tracy Cook. This move allows Technical Services to align synergies with GPP and Mechanical Field Services for our customers.

From: Crosswhite, Mark A.

Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 8:34 AM
Subject: Organizational Announcements

I am pleased to announce the following organizational changes in Operations:

Bill Grantham has been named Senior Vice President and CFO for Southern Power effective September 1. Bill began his career in 1988 as a distribution co-op student at Mississippi Power. He then worked in System Planning, Competitive Wholesale Generation, and Corporate Finance before serving in his most recent role of Vice President and CFO, Operations. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University.

John Trawick will return to Southern Company effective August 1 and succeed Bill with the new title of Vice President, Commercial Operations and Services. The Fleet Operations and Trading functions will report directly to John upon the previously announced retirement of Charley Long. John most recently served as Senior Vice President, Power Supply and Fuels, for TVA. Prior to his tenure at TVA, he held positions at Mirant from 1996 to 2002 and Southern Power from 2002 to 2008. John holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Auburn University and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Tennessee.

Kim Flowers has been named Vice President of Engineering, Engineering and Construction Services. She will be responsible for design, new generation projects, and craft labor. Kim joined Southern Company in 1984 as a co-op student at Georgia Power. She progressed through a number of plant positions and was manager at plants Bowen and Smith. She served as senior production officer of Mississippi Power before being named to her most recent role as Vice President, Technical Services. She holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech and a master’s degree from the University of West Georgia.

Lewis Jeffers will succeed Kim as Vice President of Technical Services, Engineering and Construction Services. Lewis joined the company in 1979 as a junior engineer at Plant Gadsden. He worked in numerous positions in generation and was manager at plants Smith and Barry. He served as senior production officer of Savannah Electric. In 2007, he joined Engineering and Construction Services to assume responsibility for business development of new generation. He most recently served as general manager of new generation projects and construction. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama.

July 8, 2013

Our last  regular membership meeting was held on Monday July 8, 2013 in Inverness 42, Room 130 at 1 pm.   Ms. Suzanna Ethridge Rawlings of the Birmingham Genealogical Society was our speaker our speaker and gave an interesting talk about geneology.

Our 2013 Spring Luncheon Meeting was held on May 13, 2013 and we were honored to have Tom Fanning, Southern Company President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer as our main speaker.  Tom gave us a lot of up-to-date news about the Southern Company and presented an award to Richard “Woody” Woodruff, our oldest member who is now 100 years old.  More information will be included in the upcoming newsletter.  Meanwhile, here are some photos from the luncheon: