{"id":17754,"date":"2025-02-21T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secaaae.org\/new\/?page_id=17754"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:20:09","slug":"legend-of-the-duck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.secaaae.org\/new\/legend-of-the-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend of the Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Southeast Chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives was created in 1983 during the course of an annual conference of the Southeastern Airport Managers Association.\u00a0 The meeting was held at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>

The founding fathers included Larry Cox, AAE; Bill Hamilton, AAE; Tim Campbell, AAE; Joe Leahy, AAE; Gary Rice, AAE; Anthony Dowd, AAE; and Roger Sekadlo, AAE; with the cooperation of Spencer Dickerson, Vice President of the American Association of Airport Executives.<\/p>

The Peabody Hotel had a morning and evening “duck walk.” \u00a0Each morning, the Duck Master would walk the ducks from the rooftop of the hotel, escort them down the hotel elevator where they would exit on the first floor, proceed across a red carpet to the indoor fountain, and swim their day away entertaining the guests.\u00a0 And the guests turned out for the event.\u00a0 Adults and children alike would hang over the balcony railing and crowd the first floor for a glimpse and a photo of the talented little ducks and their elaborately dressed Duck Master.\u00a0 In the evenings the process was reversed and the ducks returned to the roof for their well-deserved rest.\u00a0 And again, the crowds turned out.<\/p>

As the Southeast Chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives continued to grow and mature, the search for a logo began.\u00a0 For some unknown reason, various renditions of trains, old and new, were originally used but the leadership found them unsatisfactory.\u00a0 Finally, someone recommended the duck in remembrance of the Peabody experience.\u00a0 <\/p>

The early duck was a simple pen and ink outline of a mallard.\u00a0 In 1986, then Membership Chairman Bob Brammer sought the support of a public relations firm to assist with a more elaborate design.\u00a0 That drawing, as described by the design firm, incorporates a mallard in upward flight representing the rise of the Southeast Chapter – AAAE.\u00a0 The sun, representing the bright future of the chapter, silhouettes the mallard.\u00a0 Finally, the parallel lines drawn through the sun represent the parallel interests of the airports and corporations that anchor the Chapter and have made it the viable Association it is today.<\/p>

Following the merger of the Southeast Chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives with the Southeastern Airport Managers Association (SAMA) in 1997, the SAMA landside-civil airport symbol was added to the logo in reverence to that well-respected Association.<\/p>

The logo remains true today.\u00a0 The Chapter is still on the rise, its future is bright and its members and corporations still anchor it to its mission.\u00a0 Long live the duck!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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