Pub. 10 2015 Issue 1

www.ucls.org 6 Issue 1 2015 / UCLS Foresights 3 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS Phylip Leslie 2009 Val Schultz 2008 Bud Rhodes 2007 Jack Balling 2006 Clyde Naylor Vaughn Butler 2014 Phylip Leslie 2013 Max Elliott 2012 Bob Knox 2011 Richard Sorenson 2011 Dean Hill 2010 Lawrence Kay P hylip Leslie’s surveying career started in 1963 when he had the opportunity to interview for a job in SLC on a BLM Cadas- tral Survey Crew. The interviewer, Woody Sylvester, asked two questions: “were you raised on a farm and do you know how to swing an ax.” Phylip answered yes to both questions and the interviewer said okay-- be here to work on Monday. Phylip re- ported to work on Monday in Salt Lake. “On Tuesday, I was in Moab clearing centerline through the cedar trees for a new road to Goblin Valley (incidentally my son Joe Leslie who prepared the presentation for the Convention started his survey career when he was around 5 years old. I paid him $1.00 per hour to ride with me and keep me company and $5.00 when he helped me survey),” explained Phylip. Over the next three years, Phylip gained knowledge about Public Land Surveys and Cadas- tral Surveying. In 1966, he went to work for the Soil Conservation Service in Fillmore, Utah, providing technical services to Farmers and Ranchers by survey- ing for ponds, ditches, pipelines and land leveling. In 1967, Phylip went back to work for the BLM working as a Cadastral Survey Crew Chief. In 1968 when his oldest daughter started school, Phylip returned to college at Southern Utah State College (SUSC) now Southern Utah University (SUU) in Cedar City, Utah, working part-time for Sandberg Engineers. In 1971, Phylip trans - ferred to Utah State University in Logan, Utah, and worked part-time for Valley Engineering. After he graduated from USU in 1973, he worked as Cache County Surveyor for one year. “I then had the op- portunity to move back to Cedar City, Utah to work for Coon, King, and Knowlton managing their Cedar City Office,” said Phylip. In 1982 Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Menden - hall (DMJM) purchased Coon, King, and Knowlton. Phylip continued as manager of the DMJM office in Cedar City, Utah, until April 25, 1985 when I estab - lished Leslie & Associates, Inc. Phylip expressed his gratitude in the follow - ing comments: “I have always felt that it is Good Employees that really make a company work and pride myself in the fact that I have never missed a bi-weekly payroll in 30 years. I have been very fortunate to have Good Employees like my son Joe, Ken Hamblin, Todd Ja - cobsen, and TyRell Wood. Many Good Employees like Kerry Carpenter now Enforcement Engineer for the Division of Water Rights, Les Barker who is now Garfield County Recorder/Surveyor, Jim Webster now with the BLM and Kerry Benson who is now working for Jones and Demille in Richfield all worked for me in excess of 10 years. I would like to thank all of you for honoring me with the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014. I have never been honored in this manner and will remember this award for the remainder of this lifetime.” I invite you to review the PowerPoint presen- tation shown at the awards ceremony by visiting https://www.sendspace.com/file/rvh9ru .” UCLS 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award I have personally known Phylip Leslie for the last 35 years. He has been the go to man for Water works Design and Surveys. He has mentored many in Southern Utah and has been an import- ant contributor to the UCLS scholarship fund and even when he could not make it to the Convention he supported us with a very generous contribution. I was employed by him after selling my own firm and felt that working with him was a great experience and was privileged to work for him. I am Pleased to present the 2015 Lifetime achievement award to Phylip Leslie. Comments from Ken Hamblin