- Juan Arvelo
- Craig Olsen
- Jim Jenkins
- Jerry Dietz
- Charles Gaumond
- Amanda Lauer
- Richard Pitre
- 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