Executive Board Meeting for the Acoustical Society of America, Washington Metro Region

Wednesday, February 04, 2004, 1130 - 1300

Mi Rancho Restaurant, Silver Spring, MD

In Attendance

-       Juan Arvelo

-       Craig Olsen

-       Jim Jenkins

-       Jerry Dietz

-       Charles Gaumond

-       Amanda Lauer

-       Richard Pitre

Minutes

 

-       1145 Call to Order

-       Next Meeting announcement review

o      Gallaudet University

o      Speakers: Espy-Wilson and Peppin, see newsgroup for detailed announcement

-       Schedule review

o      Previous year and upcoming year

o      Restaurant meeting new this year

-       University suggestions for lecture / tour locations

o      More difficult for outsiders to find rooms

o      George Washington

o      American (No ASA members listed)

o      George Mason (Gaumond has a contact)

-       Agenda review

o      Food and social time added

o      Lecture time reduced from 45 minutes to 30 minutes for meetings in restaurants to accommodate food service

-       Catering

o      POC needed, see assignments at end

o      Arvelo to circulate restaurant possibilities

-       Demographics review

o      Increase to 575 members

o      Still approximately same distribution of member interests and locations

-       Speakers

o      Emphasize target audience to invited speakers

o      Want student speakers

o      Paul Etter mentioned as possible speaker

-       Announcements

o      POC Needed, see assignments at end

o      Have board at national ASA to include information about our regional meetings

¤       Pictures

¤       Mission

¤       Etc

o      Amanda Lauer to check poster printing

o      Brochures available during national ASA meetings

-       Other Chapter Involvement

o      Overlap other groups to increase attendance and spread interest base

o      Have speakers from each representative group

-       Increase student involvement

o      Hook faculty and students might follow

o      Amanda to forward faculty contacts

-       Add agenda to meeting poster

-       Chapter tours

o      Need POC, see assignments at end

o      Mentions

¤       National cathedral

¤       Symphony hall in Baltimore (organ tuning)

¤       Wolftrap

¤       Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

¤       Nature tour for bird watching

á      Amanda to check with Bernie

á      Early fall, September?

á      Location, TBD

¤       Opera House (recently refurbished)

-       Communication tools

o      Email reaching 89% of members, successful

o      Webcasting under development

-       Charter bylaws and history

o      Regional chapter established in 1959

o      Olsen and Gaumond to try to build history records

-       Funds

o      Account balance as of 12/31/03, $371

o      To get reimbursed from national ASA

¤       $121 for checking fees 2002

¤       $121 for checking fees 2003

¤       $500 flat rate

¤       $425 attendance

¤       $400 honoraria

¤       approximate total $1567

-       Executive members to be rotated

o      Length of rotation TBD

-       Job assignments reviewed

o      No changes to existing jobs

o      New items

¤       Announcements, Lauer

¤       Bird tour, Lauer

¤       Joint meeting, Jenkins

¤       Catering, Arvelo

¤       Science fair, no interest displayed

¤       School demo, acoustics DVD, Gaumond

¤       Student participation, Dietz

o      Information gathered for new action items will be placed on the chapter newsgroup chat board

-       Meeting adjourned, 1305

-       Joint meeting to possibly occur in summer slot