 Welcome to the NROTC Alumni Group!
Welcome to the Miami University Alumni Association’s NROTC Alumni Group. Our group connects alumni, parents, and friends who are a part of the Miami NROTC Alumni community. As you browse our Web site, we hope you connect with friends and consider registering or volunteering for an upcoming event.Alumni Weekend 2009
 The NROTC Alumni will celebrate with a social gathering during Alumni Weekend. All NROTC alumni, their family and friends are encouraged to participate in this open house on Saturday from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. at 67 Millett Hall.
Contact Chris Ryder ’76 for more information. Visit the Alumni Weekend Web site for more details about the weekend.
OBITUARY
Colonel R. Wayne Howland, USMC (Retired), 78, passed away July 22, 2008 in Duck, NC. 2009 Admiral Sidney W. Souers Distinguished Alumni Award
Announcement Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers Distinguished Alumni Award
The Miami University Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROC) Alumni Board, with the concurrence of NROTC Unit Commanding Officer and Professor of Naval Science, Captain Stephen Johnson, is pleased to announce the selection of Captain (retired) Loren Heckelman Class of 1979, as the recipient of the 2009 Rear Admiral Sidney Souers Distinguished Alumni Award. Captain Heckelman retired from the Navy in 2007 after serving 28 distinguished years of service as a Supply Corps officer and now serves as a senior project manager at American Funds Service Company. In this capacity, Captain Heckelman oversees business process reengineering projects in resource management, workflow, administrative services and training.
During final military tour, Captain Heckelman served as Controller for the United States Atlantic Fleet, where he managed an $8.4 billion annual budget while also developing reality-based business principles that maximized resource allocation. He previously served as Commanding Officer of the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, Virginia, the Navy’s largest logistics center that employs a staff of over 2500 civilian and military personnel and provides material and support services to 45% of the entire Navy and Marine Corps. While serving on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon, he developed the budget strategy for readiness and infrastructure accounts, valued at $25 billion annually. Early on in his career Navy Supply Corps Officer, Captain Heckelman directed logistics and financial functions aboard three ships, including two nuclear powered aircraft carriers and a destroyer. Captain Heckelman received numerous personal and unit awards throughout his career including a Meritorious Service Medal by the Secretary of the Navy for his personal actions on September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon. The devastation resulting from the plane crash occurred in the spaces across the corridor from his office. After evacuating personnel from his office and the surrounding spaces, he reentered the building joining in the fire fighting effort and assisted in evacuation of wounded. He was one of 85 military and civilian employees recognized for their actions.
Captain Heckelman has a BS in Business Administration from Miami University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies as well as a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and the Program for Executives in Logistics and Technology at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Captain Heckelman, a resident of Virginia Beach, Virginia, serves on the boards of the local YMCA and the local chapter of the Military Officers Association of America. He is active as an adult leader in Boy Scouts of America and is currently serving in his second two-year term as president of the Bishopsgate Community Civic League in Virginia Beach. Captain Heckelman volunteers with a number of community service organizations.
The Rear Admiral Sidney Souers Distinguished Alumni Award is presented each year to a graduate of Miami’s NROTC program. The award recipient demonstrates continued excellence throughout a distinguished career in their chosen field of endeavor, military or civilian. This award is a memorial to Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, a 1914 graduate of Miami University, whose life and achievements reflect the qualities recognized by the award. In his distinguished career, Admiral Souers was successful in the business world prior to World War II. In his five years of active duty, he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral and became Deputy Chief of Naval Intelligence. At the end of the war he remained an advisor to President Truman, and became the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The award is endowed by the Souers family, and has been presented each year since 1978 during the Annual Naval and Air Force ROTC Presidential Review Ceremony. The 2009 Award will be presented at Miami’s annual Navy and Air Force ROTC Presidential Review on Saturday, 18 April at Millet Hall. Recommended Links
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