Wisconsin Section, American Association of Physics TeachersMinutes of the Annual Business Meeting October 26, 2002, at UW-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
After being herded by Erik and Matt from the Tamarack to the Ojibway Room and having finished a delightful lunch (What, No Desert??!!), David Tamres called the 61st meeting of the WAPT to order at 12:52 pm, central daylight (soon to be standard) time. David led the assembled multitude in what would only be the first round of warm and well deserved appreciation for an exceptionally smoothly run meeting. Erik Hendrickson announced the winners of the poster contest that was held in conjunction with the meeting. Tied for second place were Controlling the Random Motion of a Magnetic Pendulum by Arriety Lowell, University of Wisconsin - River Falls, and High Resolution X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Si-rich SiC (100) 3x2 and Si-terminated c(4x2) Oxidation: Importance of Surface Reconstruction (aka the paper with a lot of words in the title!) by S. Mehberg, S. Chamberlin, D. Dunham, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. First place went to Nuclear Fusion - Stellar Power on Earth by Johan Tabora and Susana Castillo, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Wow! Look at all we have accomplished already and we haven’t even gotten to the first item on the agenda yet! The following agenda items were scheduled for discussion:
1. Minutes of the last meeting Amidst a great deal of background noise apparently associated with some guy that “has been around for longer than David could even remember” I was able to determine that the minutes were accepted after a motion made by Jim Madsen and seconded by Erik Hendrickson were approved.
2. Treasurer’s report: Bob Lind - UW-Platteville Another motion and second by the dynamic duo of item 1 resulted in further approval.
3. Section Representative’s report: Jim Mallmann, MSOE Section representative Jim Mallmann pointed out several highlights of his report:
4. Two-year College Representative’s report: Theo Koupelis - UW- Marathon Center From the “you had to be there department”: All would agree that Theo gave an absolutely fantastic report, the very best ever! This was most remarkable, when you take into consideration the fact that Theo himself wasn’t even there! The dynamic duo was on a roll. Also approved.
5. High School Representative’s report: Judy Schmidt - Oak Creek H. S. Judy and her report were very conspicuous by their absence. If they had been there, however, it is almost certain that Jim and Erik would have moved to accept the report and it would have passed unanimously instead of anonymously as it did.
6. Committee reports: Awards Committee No one, who was present to represent the Awards Committee, reported that this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to Bob Lind and based on the fact that it was intuitively obvious to even the most casual observers that there have to be many much more deserving candidates out there went on to urge all the members to make nominations for future awards and get them, along with necessary documentation, in early to David Tamres or other members of the Awards Committee. This could even be done by email. C’mon YOUSE Guys! Let’s see a COUPLE-TWO-TREE[1] at least next year, HEY. The rules and past award winners are in the Rules/Awards folder on our web site, currently at http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/physics/wapt/rulesawards.htm. Publications Committee Typically no one was here from this committee to provide a report and even though we had a moment of silence and strained our ears we were unable to hear anything from John Shepherd. Perhaps the wind was in the wrong direction. David, able leader that he is, decided to see who actually is on the committee and much to his surprise found that he not only was but had been for the past two years, so he took in upon himself to report that Wisphys is alive and well and still online; so, get your submissions in as soon as possible. Apparently all were still straining to receive a message from John as no motion was detectable. I assume the report was acceptable anyway. Workshops Committee Representing this committee, Matt Evans pointed out that we had six (unfortunately one of which was probably unnecessarily cancelled) very successful and well attended workshops and made a strong plea to anyone interested in taking a workshop next year to PLEASE sign up ahead of time. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! Why, might you ask? Let an example serve. Another workshop was almost cancelled because there were only a handful signed up as of the day before. Suddenly at the last minute the number went up to thirteen and when it actually started it had twenty! But, dear reader, DID EVERYONE GET A PLUNGER? NO, THEY DID NOT. Both super Menards were out and it was to late to order. Let this be a lesson to you for the future. Interested in a workshop, but not interested in having it cancelled? Want to ensure that you will get a plunger next year? THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. JUST SIGN UP AHEAD OF TIME! At least one workshop from this year will be inherited by next year’s meeting.
7. Old business from the floor
8. Sites for future meetings A call for volunteers resulted in a more complete silence than when we were all listening for John Shepherd. It was so quiet, several people thought they heard John this time, but he wasn’t volunteering for anything. Finally, Gubbi Sudhakaran from Lacrosse said that they were planning on hosting the meeting in 2004, but...if no one else......He was interrupted by an instantaneous motion, second, unanimous approval and wild applause to accept UW-Lacrosse as the host for the meeting to be held October 31- November 1, 2003, that all occurred simultaneously, I kid you not! Pending department approval, Roy Knispel volunteered UW-Oshkosh for the fall 2004 meeting site. Roy will let us know for sure in two weeks. We all agreed that having meeting sites known at least two years in advance is really useful for more knowledgeable planning.
9. New business from the floor It was agreed that existing and new share groups would forward information about their contact people and activities to the WAPT web site.
10. Election of: High school and college representatives to the Workshops Committee (3-yr term) UW-River Falls, high school, and college representatives to the Publications Committee (3-yr term) High school representative to the Awards Committee (2-yr term) Vice President, Program Chair for 2003 (includes 1-yr term on the Workshops Committee) President: Matt Evans High School Representative Two-Year College Representative Section Representative (2-yr term)
11. Closing remarks and adjournment Once again there was absolutely tumultuous applause for the gang at UW - Eau Claire and especially for Mary Jo Decker, Lauren Likkel, and Matt Evans. It was such an overwhelming emotional experience that I could not even see my watch clearly enough to have any idea when the meeting ended. Respectfully submitted Bob Lind [1]For those of you new to SCANSIN, the state where Cheeseheads are from. COUPLE-TWO-TREE: more than one; as in “Delmer and me drank a couple-two-tree beers.” |
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