9/6/00 5:35p
AIAA September Council Meeting
In attendance:
Matt Jardin
Gano Chatterji
Norm Bergrun
Morgan Bracken
John VanArsdall
Dan Stuart
Fanny Zuniga
1. Introductory comments
a) upcoming events
* FFMF (push it to first Friday in October)
* September Dinner Meeting (Bryson Award)
* Congressional Debate
* have to pay for Stanford facilities
* Anthony Logan (pres. of SJ State) said we can use space at SJS. He's checking
for dates in first week of Oct.
* Almost done coming up with a list of candidates
* Focus as a sci/tech debate, not a full-topic debate
* Possibly use SJ State's publicity department --go through student chapter for
publicity
* Need people! (contacting candidates, etc)
* John VanArsdall will help on committee
* Develop a concise list of questions for the
b) concerns
* October dinner meeting!
* Cecilia Aragon -- competitive aerobatic pilot --try for Oct.
* Possibility for Barry Scott
* Need confirmation by next Friday (15th)
* New officers
* (Dan Stuart) knows of an instructor or professor at SJSU. Name is Dr. Barez
==> Matt is to contact him
* Astronomical Viewing Event (any volunteers?)
* John V. has been looking into this.
2. Council Reports
a) Newsletter & Public Policy
* Everyone should look for errors/omissions in newsletter
* Norm: made a presentation at the RSAC meeting. Brief committee on the report
to increase section-level participation in public policy.Comments: they didn't
want term *advocacy*, New York section is inactive, Arrowhead is inactive.
* Norm handed out a webpage copy that came from AeroWebSpace LLC, formed by members of LA and Orange County sections to connect Aerospace buyers/suppliers. AIAA will probably not look kindly on this.
b) Treasurer
* Handed out Seth's report
* Discussed the CD-account pull-out to cover newsletter costs
c) Secretary
d) Vice-chair
* Gano needs to find a replacement for the tech. programs.
* Sometime in October there'll be another tech. program (possibly a trip to
Oakland Center)
* Possibly Steve Atkins for Tech programs
e) Young Professionals
* get email list over to John
* get an account for John on our website
* Greg Rogers (SJState) interested in helping out
* Considering ski trip (possibly coincide with Reno meeting)
f) Membership
* Don't have Sept. data yet
* For August, an increase of about 15-17 new members
g) Evolution of Flight
h) Precollege
* Juanita looking for topic suggestions
* Norm wants something that really requires creativity instead of parroting what
they've been taught
i) Honors and Awards
* Matt will be forwarding eng. of the year nominations to national
j) Technical Activities
* See above (Vice-chair)
k) Programs
* Matt & Fanny will work on updating the October page so that Fanny can take over that task.
l) AIAA On-line
* who is taking over dinner meeting page updates (Fanny and Matt)
m) Sister Section
* Work with Larry Chien
Meeting Adjourned 9/6/00 6:54p