MILWAUKEE SECTION
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

MINUTES OF THE BOARD MEETING

January 7, 2003 at 6:15 P.M.
Todd Wehr Chemistry Bldg. - Marquette University

Present:

Tony Antony, Bud Douthitt, Mary Doyle, Kevin Glaeske, Dimitri Gorjestani, Tom Holme, Steven Levsen, Tom McLinn, Kristene Surerus, Beth Shepard, and Alan Thompson.

Minutes:

The minutes for the previous meeting were approved with a minor revision.

Chair's Remarks:

Steve handed out the current listing of Speakers for 2003. There are still some openings for places needed to host the meetings. Everything should be ironed out by next meeting. There is a possibly to co-host a meeting with the Northwestern Wis. Section in May. Possible locations include either Manitowoc or Sheboygan. Discussion ensued on having the travel award recipients present their posters at the monthly meeting after the National Meeting. Steve is going to invite the award winners to the April meeting. Tom stated that he had about a third of the annual report finished for National.

Amalgamator:

Alan got the latest issue out on Jan. 3^rd.

Chemical Education:

Tony mentioned some teachers worried about having participants giving their social security numbers on the registration forms. The numbers are needed to acquire saving bonds for the winners of the Olympiad. Tony suggested giving a check directly from the section. The board deiced to give a check to the winners. Tony has mailed out teacher of the year nominations out and should be getting those back in the next few weeks.

Membership:

Diana reported that there was 1 person who did not renew her membership.

Nominations:

Dimitri would be willing to assist in helping with this position.

Treasurer:

Beth gave her report, which is attached. Currently, everything is up to date with the exception of two outstanding bills.

Long Range Planning:

Tom stated the next meeting would be Feb. 11, 2003. Other meetings would be 4/8/03 and 10/7/03. Tom also has started to lay the groundwork for the 2006 Great Lakes regional meeting. The 2003 meeting would be held at Loyola and the 2004 meeting would be in Peoria.

Chair-Elect:

Kristene said she would be attending the leadership conference in Washington D.C. this February.

Councilors:

Tom Holme presented results of the section survey provided in the Dec. Amalgamator. Tom provided names of people that may be contacted for getting involved in future committees for the local section.

Project Seed:

Steve mentioned that MCW would like to possibly continue with the program, but they would like more control on the students who would be working at MCW.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:14PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Glaeski