July 14, 2008

Officer Meeting

Location: Partnership II
Present: Joe Keebler, Carrie Murphy, Katie Del Giudice, Heather Lum, Dave Schuster

Issues Covered

Chapter Duties

  • We need a list of ACTIVE chapter members so we have a current head count and email list
  • Scott will send an email to Lisa, the Google Groups, and the Yahoo Groups to reply to if you still want to be listed as a chapter member
  • A possible new meeting place for the fall is a nearby coffee house, The Daily Grind
  • Joe and Katie will put together the HFES chapter award application – dueAugust 15th!
  • Chapter officers need to get their website bio blurbs to Scott as soon as possible

Orientaion and New Student Issues

  • New student orientation is August 12th
  • Katie will let Lisa know we are planning to do a presentation during orientation
  • We will also do at least 2 activities with the new students: coffee shop after orientation and karaoke night
  • Liz Lazzara is going to take care of setting up new students with upperclassmen mentors

HFES Conference

  • We will set up a chapter dinner night for the NY conference in September
  • Joe will research potential resturaunts…we need a head count for a reservation

Activities for the Fall

  • Heather will research calender printing prices for the calendar fundraiser
  • We need to have a brainstorming meeting to plan out the rest of the calendar…maybe get picture caption input from the rest of the chapter?
  • After getting together an active member email list we need to send out an interest email for polo shirts
  • PVC Frankenstein is a go for NEM – maybe make out of PVC and wire like a marionette?
  • The Teach-In/Science Fair activities will happen in Oct/Nov and Jan/Feb for interested members
  • Joe is going to talk to Michelle Router about speaking at UCF

Next Meeting is July 31st at 5 pm in the Psychology Building Graduate Student Lounge