Annual Gala Fundraising Dinner
Each year, since 2006, the DFI Educational Trust has hosted a Gala Fundraising Dinner. From 2010 until 2015, the event benefited the now fully endowed DFI Educational Trust Stanley Merjan City College of New York Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund.
Proceeds from past events also benefited the Clyde N. Baker, Jr. Foundation Engineering Scholarship Fund, George J. Tamaro Manhattan College Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund, DFI Educational Trust General Fund, Women in Deep Foundations Fund and most recently the William F. Loftus Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Past Gala Speakers
DFI and the Trust thank its past gala speakers for their collaboration in hosting a successful fundraising dinner year after year.
Francis J. Lombardi, P.E., DIST. M. ASCE, F. SAME, (Retired) • 2017
Chief Engineer of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
George J. Tamaro, P.E., Consultant  • 2016
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Michael McHugh, Executive Vice President • 2015
Moretrench
Dan Brown, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, President • 2014
Dan Brown and Associates
Theodore P. Zoli, III, P.E., Senior Vice President, National Bridge Chief Engineer •  2013
HTNB
Clyde N. Baker, Jr., P.E., S.E., Senior Principal Engineer • 2012
AECOM
Dr. Fred H. Kulhawy, P.E., G.E., Distinguished Member ASCE Professor Emeritus of Civil/Geotechnical Engineering • 2011
Cornell University Consulting Geotechnical Engineer, Ithaca, NY
Arthur D. Silber, Chief of NJ Transit’s ARC Tunnel Project and an Assistant Executive Director • 2010
NJ Transit
Richard T. Anderson, President • 2009
New York Building Congress
Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director • 2008
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
James Michael Duncan, University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Geotechnical Practice and Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering  •  2007
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University