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RAC VI
Meeting Minutes
Saturday,
02 October 1999
Summerfield
Suites, El Segundo, CA
Ranney Adams Deputy
Director, Honors and Awards
Norm Bergrun Deputy
Director at Large
Elizabeth Carter AIAA
Member Activities Liaison, Western Office
Bill Chana Distinguished
Lecturer, Member at Large
Gabriel Georgiades San
Gabriel Valley Section, Chair
Carlo Hormozian San
Fernando Valley Section, Chair
Stephen Jaeger San Francisco Section,
Chair
Laura Kistler Pacific
Northwest Section, RAC Representative
Kevin Kremeyer Tucson
Section, Chair
Mike Lazar San
Diego Section, RAC Representative
Byron Lowry San
Diego Section, Chair
Michael Mackowski Phoenix
Section, RAC Representative
Zak Mirza Los
Angeles Section, Chair
Joe Morano Orange
County, RAC Rep., DD for Precollege & 2003
Tom Nosek Deputy
Director, Technical
Dion Ramsical Antelope
Valley, Chair
Chris Root Deputy
Director, Young Professionals
Ken Sanger Region
VI Director
Rina Shivashankara Tucson
Section, Vice-Chair
Ed Smith China
Lake Section, Chair
Director for Region VI, Ken Sanger, called the meeting to
order at 10:00 AM and thanked all for attending. He related that Juanita Ryan’s
husband had passed away, and asked for a few minutes of silence. An envelope
was passed around, and Elizabeth was given the action to send a beautiful
arrangement of plants/flowers to Juanita from RAC VI.
A motion was made, seconded and passed to approve the
minutes of the 22 May 1999 RAC VI Meeting.
Elizabeth presented copies of the staff liaison report
that includes Key Institute Activities between May 1999 and August 1999. The
report includes information about: Member Activities, Corporate Membership,
Honors and Awards, Evolution of Flight, Events, International Activities,
Journals, Professional Development, Standards and more. If any RAC VI members
missed the report please contact Elizabeth Carter to have a copy forwarded.
The new AIAA Trial Membership Program was discussed.
Recipients of the Outstanding Section Award in all categories including first,
second and third winners were selected to participate in the Program. Each
winning Section receives a number of free trial memberships to extend to any
qualified non-member aerospace professional. The invited trial member cannot
have been an AIAA member at any time previously. From 1 January 2000 to 1
September 2000 the successful applicants will receive all the benefits of
membership - dues free. An information package will be going out to the winning
Sections. Region VI Section winners were Vandenberg, China Lake and San Diego.
Sectional bylaws - China Lake and Pt. Lobos requested to
include article 12 paragraph in their bylaws. ACTION 98-9-1: OPEN - China Lake
and Point Lobos are working on the bylaw change.
ACTION 99–1-2: Sanger to look into economy of scale with
regards to postage, production and printing. Status: CLOSED - Sanger received
word from National that research indicated no benefit from a single source.
ACTION 99-5-2: Carter to find the letter the
AIAA sends to supervisors of active council members. Status: CLOSED – Carter
has the letter and will send it to any Section Honors and Awards officer.
Copies of the Director’s Report were presented at the
meeting. If any RAC VI members missed the report please contact Elizabeth
Carter to have a copy forwarded. Sanger highlighted the following from the
August Meetings:
v RSAC
and RAC VI reports are going out electronically.
v The
Regional Leadership Conference in Dallas was successful. Attendance was high -
90 participants from 44 sections. The year 2000 RLC will be held in Las Vegas.
v The
next RSAC meeting will be held on 13 January 2000 in Reno.
v Merlin
Dorfman was appointed to the Ethical Conduct Panel for a three-year term.
v FY00
budget was approved, $66k was approved to fund section participation at the
Congressional Visits Day, and $1M was approved for Electronic Information
Services. EIS must come up with a business plan.
v National
Nominating Committee – Bill Chana and Christine Anderson are candidates for a
Director-at-large position, and Region VI has three candidates for Director –
Norm Bergrun, Doug Chappelle and Joe Morano.
v Joe
Morano is the Evolution of Flight Deputy Director for Region VI.
v Region
VI thanks Pat Ames-Urie and Tim Hanneman for their work as Deputy Directors for
Membership and Education. These positions are now open. ACTION ITEM 99-10-1: All Region VI members to contact Ken Sanger
with suggestions for volunteers to fill these open Deputy Director positions.
v The
Region VI Student Paper Conference will be held on 7-9 April 2000 at San Diego
State University. The point of contact is George Faulkner at 619 270-7354.
v Please
submit Special Service Citations for approval at RSAC in January 2000.
v Rebates
will be $7.25 per member. Headquarters will begin sending out checks in
October.
v Pacific
Northwest and San Gabriel Valley owe Section Annual Reports. San Fernando
Valley and Tucson owe both audit/budget and Annual Reports. Utah needs to
correct their audit/budget report.
Miles Nesman emailed a written report. See attachment #1 for rebate status, and financial status. Highlights of the report include:
v Balance
in the Region VI checking account is $8,440.07, including $1,791.62 of Category
III funds.
v Balance
in the Student Conference checking account is $5,146.94.
v Two
Category III rebate checks and one return of unused Category III funds.
v $533 to
AIAA National Section Support Team – for funding travel to Regional Leadership
Conference. This is in addition to $1,500 paid in April.
v $1,900
to AIAA Phoenix section for Tucson reactivation activity.
v $753
from AIAA San Diego section for unspent $ for creativity award.
v Submit reports
of results of activities funded by past Category III rebates.
v Category
III funds are now available to Region VI sections for 1999-2000.
Ranney Adams submitted a written
report. For a copy of the full report please contact Elizabeth Carter.
Highlights are:
See attachment #2 for Joe Morano’s report. The report includes
highlights of the last National Committee teleconferences, ideas, goals and
comments. The PCO has a website at http://www.aiaa.org/information/professional/precol.html Joe Morano encouraged all members to check
out this site.
Morano reported on the NASA
Connect project. AIAA will help NASA with classrooms to film the TV show. AIAA
members are also available to mentor classes as they do the classroom
activities that go along with NASA Connect. Please contact Joe Morano or
Elizabeth Carter for a brochure and registration form. The NASA Connect is a
series of seven integrated math and science instructional satellite (television
& internet) programs.
Other highlights of his report
are:
v Only 7
educator classroom aid fund requests. This is down quite a bit from last year. Morano
encouraged educator associates to promote this $200.00 award. He also would
like to see the Sections invite educators to council meetings.
v San
Francisco Section won first place in the PCO Sectional Award.
Joe Morano is the new Deputy
Director for the 2003 celebration. See attachment #3 for Morano’s report. He
encouraged all members to look up the website at www.flight100.org and
add thoughts to the forum. Highlights are:
v Six
more Class of 2003 Ambassadors will be chosen.
v Each
Section should appoint an Evolution of Flight Section Officer.
v Each
Section should receive an Evolution of Flight video to show.
v All
AIAA members will be sent a logo pin.
Norm Bergrun gave Pat Fresh’s
report:
v The Region
VI/V Public Policy Colloquium will be held on Saturday, February 12, 2000. This
will be an excellent opportunity to re-introduce the goals and objectives of
the AIAA Task Force.
v AIAA
members interested in meeting with Rohrabacher should contact Pat Fresh. Pat
Fresh has had contact with Dana Rohrabacher with regards to a meeting with 10
AIAA members. The date for this meeting has not been set.
Tom Nosek will distribute the
Sectional TC list to Region VI Section chairs. Ken Sanger suggested that
Sections look to their TC members as potential Council officers.
Chris Root reported on the YPs:
v The
November teleconference will concentrate on the agenda for Reno meeting.
v Auto
dues payment plan should be on its way in January.
v The YPs
need a webmaster.
v Brett
Anderson is the new Committee Chair.
v The
Young Professionals’ Aerospace Career Handbook needs to be updated.
v YP
Presentations - a forum for young aerospace professional's to present technical
work cover continuing and in-process designs or research works, in addition to
completed projects at National AIAA technical meetings. The program format
allows oral only presentations. Written papers are not required.
v Looking
into reducing Conference fees for YPs.
Ramsical reported that the
Section is having problems finding a vice-chair. Ken Sanger suggested that Dion
call Headquarters for a Sectional data report and contact the TC members to
volunteer for council officers.
Smith reported that the Section
received outstanding activities special recognition award for the very
successful two-week rocketry program held at Burroughs High School conceptual
physics class. China Lake also won second place in the Small Category for
Outstanding Section Award.
Zak related that the Los
Angeles council had a very difficult time completing the audit and budget
report.
No major issues.
Kistler described the efforts
the Pacific Northwest Section is taking to reach as many members as possible in
their very large geographic area. They are planning programs in three different
locations and have difficulties with travel and scheduling.
Ken Sanger introduced the new
council members from Tucson. Sanger thanked the Phoenix Section for their help
in revitalizing the Tucson Section. He encouraged all RAC VI officers to offer
support to the section.
Mike reported that a major
accounting problem is subsidized dinner programs. The Section is trying to
figure out a way to organize great programs without subsidizing the dinner.
Their fall trip/event to Tucson was a tremendous success.
Lazar related that the Region
VI Student Paper Conference will be held at San Diego State University on April
7-9, 2000. The point of contact is Capt. George Faulkner at 619 270-7354. Lazar
needs volunteers to assemble the judging panel, and to coordinate judging of
student papers submitted and presentations made at the conference.
Jaeger related that the Section has a great council and website.
San Gabriel Valley – Gabriel
Georgiades Report #10
Gabriel voiced his concern over the many empty Section council seats. They are recovering from a year with too few council meetings.
Utah – Christian Hailey Report #11
Christian Hailey reported that the Section membership is increasing and they have no vacancies on the council
Vandenberg – Mel Desembrana Report #12
Desembrana submitted a written report. They have a serious problem filling Section council seats.
VIII Brainstorming Session
Evolution of Flight
Joe Morano led the discussion about how Region VI can contribute to the Evolution of Flight Celebration. He showed the Celebration video. The following are ideas from the discussion:
v San Diego Section would like to start a Learn to Fly program at the Sectional level
v Cockpit lessons might be easier
v San Diego Museum of flight should help with compiling the list of 100 Top Pioneers of Flight
v Establish a group of local 2003 Ambassadors in each Section
v Create a Region VI Pioneer Database
v Think of ideas for gizmos – an example is to fly the trinkets in space or drop them from a C-17
v Use spent hardware as prizes or giveaways
v Have local airplane contests
v Use local historians to lecture in high schools
v Organize a Region VI Flight Tour. Use different airplanes and pilots from each Section
v Establish a website for History of Flight in each state in Region VI
v Work and promote the celebration with local airshows
v Essay contests for high school students. How do you see flight evolving in the next 100 years. Give away lots of prizes including free airplane rides
v Go to Boeing and ask for help with incentive rides in the C-17 or other airplanes
v Use radio control flight trainers and simulators
v Bring in the Concorde
v Arrange for visits for school children at local airports
v Each Section should use the Celebration of Flight video in local programs
v Produce a CD ROM to send to each Section with the videos and historical programs on it
v Work with local Challenger Centers
v Use local TV stations as resources for promoting the Celebration
v Invite local 2003 Ambassadors to Regional Conferences
v Have a 2003 Celebration at local Conferences. Poll the local TC members to find out what Conferences will be held in an area.
v Produce building kits for children
v Promote science fair experiments that deal with airflight
v Publish stories about success in the aero and astro industries
v Involve internationals in efforts
v Arrange for RAC VI officers to parachute before a meeting in 2003
v Organize a fancy black-tie party, and use a Wright Flyer replica as centerpiece
Sanger suggested that at the next RAC VI meeting we must work on a strategy for the celebration. Think about programs that reach out to everyone, use available funds and generate funds for the Sections and scholarships. Sections should choose an event or help out with a Region VI event. Joe Morano will be the lead for this celebration strategy.
ACTION 99-10-2: All Sections to give feedback to Joe Morano at (joe.morano@boeing.com) before the end of December. Feedback should include sectional events or how a Section can help in a Regional event. Joe will be reporting to the International Celebration of Flight Committee in January in Reno.
IX Next RAC VI Meeting
The next RAC VI meeting will be held on 22 January 2000. Agenda and information will be emailed one month in advance.
Chris Root would like the following RAC VI meeting to coincide with the Student Paper Conference in San Diego.
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