AIAA St. Louis Section

Council Meeting Minutes

7 January 2002

 

The meeting was called to order by Peggy Holly at 5:10 pm.

 

Attendees: Peggy Holly, Bob Dowgwillo, Larry Brase, John Mohr, Rudy Yurkovich, Dianne Chong, Steve D'Urso, Ray Cosner, Joe Stemler, Dave Morgan, Dick Pinckert, John Donigan

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

·     Minutes from December Meeting – Minutes were accepted with one clarification: Joe Stemler has requested a 50-Year pin for William Briggs. The pin has not yet been received from National.

 

·        Treasurer’s Report – Karen Copper

No report.

 

·        Region V Representative – Larry Brase

The Region V representatives will be meeting on January 15 at the AIAA conference in Reno, NV.

 

Larry Brase has been asked to be the chief judge at the St. Louis Student Conference, to be held on April 18-19 at Parks College.  He is now assembling the judging team. A question was raised about the possible conflict of interest in using faculty members from the participating schools as judges. There will be a Region V meeting held in conjunction with the conference on April 20.

 

Peggy Holly distributed copies of the latest Section V status report. This report was sent to Region V on 7 January. She noted the lack of section activity over the past few months.

 

·        Committee Reports:

 

Arrangements – Walt Reschke

No report.

 

Attendance – Andrew Cary

No report.

 

Career Enhancement – Steve D’Urso

Steve presented charts outlining his thoughts on career enhancement programs. Two programs were proposed. The first, geared toward students, would be offered in conjunction with the Student Conference in April. A second would be offered in May to the membership at large in May, before the annual banquet. Both would feature a panel discussion format, with questions from the audience. The membership of the panels would be different for the two programs. A suggestion was made to create a video recording of the events. Council members are urged to email Steve with any recommendations for panel members.

 

Education – Marty Ferman 

No report.

 

Historian – Fred Roos 

No report.

 

Honors and Awards – Ray Cosner

Ray has received the records of last year's activity from Catherine Sabinash. He is planning to solicit for nominees in March.

 

Membership – Joe Stemler

Joe is looking for the names of those who accepted the free trial membership to show up on our roster. In particular, he will check on the status of John Lockard's membership. The council requested that Joe send information about the upcoming joint meeting to all those who had expressed an interest in membership. 

 

Newsletter – Dave Morgan

Dave made an appeal for more material for the newsletter. We must issue the newsletter if we are to realize the income from the advertising. A suggestion was made to solicit for guest columns about issues germane to AIAA. One source of topics could be conference papers from local authors. Two potential topics: 1) comments on the upcoming Congressional Visit Days visit, and 2) current defense procurement practices.

 

Pilot Education – Jeff  Larrick

            Jeff reported via email that all is on track for the event.

 

Pre-College Outreach - Karen Copper

No report.

 

Programs – Bill LaManna

No report.

 

Public Policy – Dick Pinckert

Diane Chong has offered to help with this committee.

 

The fallout from the 9-11 events may affect the annual Congressional Visit Days in Washington D.C.

 

The upcoming Engineer's Week on February 17-23 will count as public policy activity. He is looking for people to help with the Week's activities. Information is available on a Boeing Web Site via Randy Meyer from Boeing Community Relations.

 

Publicity (Internal) - Bruce Scheidhauer 

No report.

 

Service Projects – Gary White

No report.

Strategic Planning - Larry Brase 

Larry is awaiting a response from the Los Angeles Section about their survey. He plans to have another meeting before the end of January.

 

Tech. Specialist / Mini Symposium – No Chairperson

 

Webmaster – John Donigan

No new information.

 

Young Members - No Chairperson

 

Young Professional Award – Ron Smith

Considering awarding the Young Professional Award at the January 15 meeting.

 

·        Technical Committee Nominations

Peggy provided some feedback on the state of nominations of Boeing personnel to AIAA technical committees (TC). Last year Boeing had 40 St. Louis-based people on the TC's; this year it has 30. Lockard was approached about the problem, and Boeing is now being more pro-active about getting the right people on the right committees. Nominations for 2002 TC membership were closed on 1 November 2001. Nominations will open again this May for 2003 TC membership. However, so far there has been limited response from the functional department heads. It is thought that the work from upper management is not getting out the department heads. Rudy Yurkovich will be sending out an email remainder to them. We need to find out where we are lacking TC representation and who is to do something about it.

 

 

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

·        Draft RAC V Report

Peggy distributed a draft of the latest report.

 

·        Substitutes for Parks, Washington University Council Members

Both Marty Ferman (Parks) and David Peters (WU) have notified the council about an ongoing conflict with classes that prevents them from attending the regularly scheduled council meetings. However, the council recognizes that representation of the local schools is important. Moreover, two of the last five council meetings have lacked the quorum necessary to conduct business. Therefore, a motion was made and carried to contact Marty and David and ask them each to select a substitute that can attend the council meetings in their behalf. The Secretary will make the contact.

 

·       Next Meeting is 4 February 2002

 

Motion to adjourn was seconded and approved.

 

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Bob Dowgwillo

St. Louis Section Secretary