Blue Ridge Electric Announces Retirement
For Immediate Release
Contact: Renee Whitener, Director of Corporate Communications, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, (828) 758-2383 ext. 3213; Pager:1-800-471-1323; or E-mail: Renee Whitener
Lenoir, North Carolina (January 08, 2001) — Sam Patterson, project specialist, recently retired from Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation after a career spanning nearly 38 years.
Patterson was hired at the cooperative in 1963 as a custodian and was later promoted to line crew equipment operator. Through other promotions, Patterson held positions of warehouseman, operations coordinator for Caldwell district, and most recently, project specialist in the distribution services group.
Patterson is a graduate of Freedman High School and attended Fayetteville State University. He is a volunteer with the Caldwell Chapter of the American Red Cross where he is a former chairman. Patterson is also a member of the Caldwell County Planning Board and the Caldwell Memorial Hospital Foundation Board.
He and his wife, Freda, have four children and eight grandchildren.
Blue Ridge Electric is a not-for-profit electric cooperative serving over 60,000 members in northwest North Carolina. Its subsidiary, Blue Ridge Energies, is a propane, heating fuels, and commercial gasoline provider with offices in Lenoir, Morganton, Boone, and West Jefferson.
