On Wednesday, June 9, 2010 INSA held its annual Alex Wetherbee Charity Golf Tournament for the benefit of the Alex Wetherbee Scholarship and Outward Bound at The Golf Club at Lansdowne Resort.

Despite the rainy weather, we had a great turnout of over 140 attendees who helped raise funds for the charity.

The competing foursomes came from the following companies: Accenture, Applied Signal Technology, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, Ensco, Inc., GCI, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, General Dynamics Information Technology, Harris Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, L-3 Communications, LGS Innovations, LMI Government Consulting, ManTech, Oracle, Quality of Life Plus, Raytheon, Telemus Solutions, URS, USIS, Verizon Federal, and Zeta Associates.

INSA held a reception after the tournament where Joe Punaro, who served with Alex in the Marine Corps, spoke briefly about Alex and his service to our country.

Afterwards, raffle winners were announced.  Prizes included:
- Titleist Voky 60 Degree Wedge
- Oakley Half Jacket Sunglasses
- Scotty Cameron Circa 52 Putter – Model #7
- Nike Extreme Sport 2 Golf Bag
- Lansdowne Golf Package for 2 – including overnight accommodations at Lansdowne Resort, breakfast at the Hearth Restaurant, one hour of professional golf lessons, and two rounds of golf
- Complimentary Sunday brunch for two at the Ritz Carlton, Pentagon City
- Outward Bound Package –  One day team building session for 10 led by an Outward Bound Professional
- 1 Dozen Pro V1 Golf Balls
- 1 Dozen Pro V1X Golf Balls

In addition to the raffle prizes, the winning foursome was awarded INSA golf trophies and the foursome with the worst score was presented with the “At Least We Tried” award.  First place winners were Lisa Deel, Troy Deel, Angela Baskette, and Steve Castro.  “At Least We Tried” winners were Larry Carr, Kyle Norosky, Aimee David, and James Keenan.

Tournament attendees also competed in two contests including longest drive and closest to the pin.

This charity event was sponsored by Deloitte, GCI, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, General Dynamics Information Technology, Quality of Life Plus, Raytheon, URS and ZETA Associates.

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Alex gave his life for us in the line of duty while serving in the Marines near Fallujah in Iraq. The Scholarship Fund, administered in conjunction with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, provides Outward Bound scholarship opportunities for young survivors of military men and women who were killed in action.  Alex was a former instructor at Colorado Outward Bound and planned to return upon completion of his military service. For more information about the Alex Wetherbee Scholarship please visit www.outwardbound.org.

INSA would like to thank Alex’s parents, Harry and Doris, as well as his wife, Heather, for their sacrifice and for allowing us to share in the celebration of Alex’s life through this event.