New Mexico Network for WOMEN IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING PO Box 18073, Albuquerque, NM 87185 THE NETWORK NEWS September 1997

NMNWSE Board of Directors	PRESIDENTS MESSAGE by Lynda Towers Another NMNWSE year is quickly drawing to a close, as we prepare to meet in Las Cruces to exchange information, meet new friends and catch up with old ones, celebrate the accomplishments of women in science and engineering, and transact NMNWSE business. Serving as NMNWSE president for FY97 has been an honor and a challenge. With this, the last issue of my President's message for FY97, I will leave you with some closing thoughts for this year and get ready to meet in Las Cruces October 17-19. From an article on Employee Motivation, by Edwin Richard Rigsbee, Executive Excellence Vol. 13 No. 6. Listen and your employees will tell you just how to create a climate that will empower them to do more. I believe this applies to organization such as NMNWSE or any other you may be involved with. He elaborate by stating: Participation Acceptance Recognition Tell the Truth Net-of-Safety Enthusiasm Renewal If you hope to partner with your employees, you need to understand what make them tick. Allow your associates and yourself to make errors. Challenge your associates to daily be their best. You have to PARTNER to empower. Participation and involvement. The employee activities you must reward are risk taking, cooperation, mentoring, innovation, value-adding, and challenging. Acceptance. Accept your employees as fully functioning people. Recognition. You must embody that which you choose to praise and reward. Tell the Truth. Inform them what really happening in the company. Net of Safety. If you want your employees to actively participate, you must create a climate of safety; nobody desires to get shot down for sticking their neck out in an effort to improve the organization. Enthusiasm toward your employees and their growth. Be excited about the growth of your team; be excited when your people take a risk. Renewal of your commitment to excellence. This reawakening is crucial. Actions speak louder than words. Partnering to empower will assist you in building a successful and synergetic relationship with your employees. This article can and should be applied to every facet of our lives. Let us now and in the future partner to empower and build a successful and synergetic NMNWSE organization. My thanks to all the members of NMNWSE for a successful year. Special thanks to all the board members for your participation and hard works this year. See you for the 1997 NMNWSE Annual Meeting in Las Cruces this October 17th - 19th. Thanks!! Lynda K. Towers
President Lynda Towers Los Alamos, NM
Past President Libby Haas Albuquerque, NM
Vice President Kelly Bitner Albuquerque, NM
Secretary Jennifer Siders Los Alamos, NM
Treasurer Deborah Kubicek Los Alamos, NM
Archives dede Collins Santa Fe, NM
Elections Debby Potter Albuquerque, NM
EYH Coordinator Adrienne Dare Silver City, NM
Fund Raising Yolanda Jones King Moriarty, NM
Membership Wyona Turner El Paso, TX
Newsletter Carol LaDelfe Los Alamos, NM
Publicity Mary Bochmann Las Cruces, NM
Central Chapter Judy Hendricks Albuquerque, NM
Eastern Chapter Mercedes Agogino Portales, NM
Northern Chapter Carol LaDelfe (acting) Los Alamos, NM
Southern Chapter Karen Saenz Alamogordo, NM

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AUGUST 1997 BOARD MEETING

The meeting was called to order at 10:05 am. Those in attendance were Lynda Towers, Karen Saenz, Adrienne Dare, Carol LaDelfe, Yolanda Jones King, Deborah Kubicek, Judy Hendrix, Debby Potter and Jennifer Siders. The meeting was held at the home of Adrienne Dare in Silver City.

The minutes from the June meeting were reviewed and approved. The Treasurer's report was given by Deborah Kubicek. Year to date income of $6730.36 and expenses of $5096.20. Reports were given by Committee Chairs. The meeting adjourned at 11:55 a.m.

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STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS

TREASURER'S REPORT

CATEGORIES	BUDGET	Oct-Nov	Dec-Jan	Feb-Mar	Apr-May	Jun-Jul	Aug-Sep	YTD
Opening Balance
Checking	$2,264.32	$3,415.76	$ 3,415.76	$ 4,047.44	$ 4,697.83	$ 3,942.11
Money Market	$6,102.86	$6,180.58	$ 6,180.58	$ 6,258.15	$ 6,258.15	$ 6,334.83
Total	$8,367.18	$9,596.34	$ 9,596.34	$10,305.59	$10,955.98	$10,276.94
Income
Payback	$ 200	$ 204.32						$ 204.32
Memberships	$ 3000	$1,895.00	$ 390.00	$ 150.00		$35.00		$ 2,470.00
Fund Raising	$ 1800	$ 500.00	$1,900.00	$1,300.00				$ 3,700.00
Interest
Checking	$ 60	$ 3.92	$ 14.96	$ 9.00	$ 9.23	$ 6.89		$ 44.00
Money Market	$ 200	$ 77.72	$ 77.57	$ 0.00	$ 76.68	$80.07		$ 312.04
Total	$ 5260	$2,680.96	$2,382.53	$1,459.00	$ 85.91	$121.96		$ 6,730.36
Expenses
Annual Meeting	$ 250	$ 0.00						$ 0.00
Annual Mtg Scholarships	$ 110	$ 0.00						$ 0.00
Archives	$ 30							$ 0.00
Chapter Rebates	$ 1000	$1,000.00	$ 25.00					$ 1,025.00
Elections	$ 95							$ 0.00
EYH Conferences
Albuquerque	$ 300			$ 300.00				$ 300.00
Los Alamos	$ 300			$ 300.00				$ 300.00
Las Cruces	$ 300		$ 300.00					$ 300.00
Silver City	$ 300		$ 300.00					$ 300.00
Statewide	$ 350	$ 200.00		$ 36.69				$ 236.69
EYH Printing	$ 1400		$ 783.75					$ 783.75
Fund Raising	$ 50		$ 32.00		$ 3.99	$ 5.90		$ 41.89
Membership Booklet	$ 325				$ 187.05			$ 187.05
Membership Mailings	$ 80	$ 89.96			$ 88.14			$ 178.10
Newsletter	$ 250	$ 27.84	$ 31.04			$33.60		$ 92.48
Officers' Expenses	$ 300		$ 136.60	$ 8.70	$ 18.05	$47.30		$ 210.65
PO Box	$ 60		$ 58.00					$ 58.00
Public Relations	$ 300					$22.09		$ 22.09
Science Fair	$ 400	$ 24.00			$ 428.40			$ 452.40
Travel - Board	$ 350			$ 160.00	$ 37.75	$57.42		$ 255.17
Travel - President	$ 600					$221.25		$ 221.25
Memorium	$ 100	$ 100.00						$ 100.00
Misc.	$ 100	$ 10.00	$ 6.89	$ 3.22	$ 1.57	$10.00		$ 31.68
Total	$ 7350	$ 1,451.80	$ 1,673.28	$ 808.61	$ 764.95	$397.56		$ 5,096.20

Report Period Balances
	Opening Balance	Ending Balance
Checking	$3,942.11	$3,586.44
Money Market	$6,334.83	$6,414.90
Total	$10,276.94	$10,001.34

Year To Date
Income	$6,730.36
Expenses	$5096.20
Total	$1634.16

1998 Budget.

Deborah Kubicek led the Board members in a discussion of the Budget for 1997-98. Some items were changed. Deborah also reminded the Board that auditors will be needed before the Annual Meeting in October. Three people are needed from the other Chapters since Deborah is with the Northern Chapter, and it would be so difficult for someone from the Southern Chapter to meet to go over the books, it was decided that two auditors could
come from the Central Chapter. Names of the volunteers should be given to Deborah by Sept. 1st and they will meet in Albuquerque between Oct. 1st and mid-Oct. She will also find out what needs to be done to change names on the Mutual Funds and be prepared to do so at the Annual Meeting.

ELECTIONS

The ballot for FY 1998 officers was distributed with the last issue of the newsletter. Election returns are steadily being received. We'll need at least one volunteer to help with the easy task of verifying results of the election. If you can help, please contact Debby Potter. There have been some comments onthe amendment to the bylaws written on the ballots: it would be good to discuss these after the ballots have been counted.

ANNUAL MEETING

Annual Meeting: Committee meetings will be held as needed through out the summer. Contact Karen Saenz or Nancy Stages for meeting information, as we need lots of volunteers to help. We need 10 rooms credited to the WSE Annual Meeting; we have guaranteed 10 rooms. Flyers will go out with the next newsletter. Registration will be mailed in August. We have received 2 abstracts so far.

MEMBERSHIP

Submitted by Karen Saenz for Wyona Turner. Currently there are 95 professional members, 7 retired, 19 students/unemployed for a total of 121 members. This includes three new members. Labels were sent for the newsletter and the database was updated.

Membership Status

	Professional	Retired	Student/ Unemployed	Total
Central	28(2 new)	3	4(l new)	35
Eastern	1	1	4(2 new)	6
Northern	49(10 new)	1	10(6 new)	60
Southern	17(1 new)	2	1(1 new)	20
Total	95	7	19	121

New Members Since June/July

Lisa Colletti
320 Rim Rd.
Los Alamos, NM 87544

Susana Delano
LANL
Life Sciences Div., LS-7
MS M888
Los Alamos, NM 87545

Fawn Miller
P.O. Box 621
Tijeras, NM 87059

FUND RAISING

No Report

ARCHIVES

No Report

SCIENCE FAIR

Deborah Kubicek received two thank you notes from students. They were passed around the Board.

POLICIES and PROCEDURES

No Report

PUBLICITY

Submitted by Jennifer Siders. Have hung up Call for Papers around MST-11 in TA-3 at LANL as well as offices around TA-35 and UNM-LA. I also sent it to the WISENET listserv. I am going to send the Call for Papers to women at New Mexico Tech and some other schools that might not be getting the information through the Network. Next year at the Science Fair I would like to produce 'good job' cards for the Network judges to pass out - similar to what the Air Force was doing this past year.

NEWSLETTER

Submitted by Carol LaDelfe. Newsletter went out in June, the next one should be out in September

EYH

Surveying Your Future

Submitted by Jennifer Siders. There was one meeting where the last few articles without authors were divided among the committee members. I was asked to find an oceanographer and did so using WISENET (an internet listserv) and got quite a few responses, one of which is Teresa Greeley who runs a summer school on oceanography for young girls in Florida. I also got a number of women asking if they could buy a copy of the book for their daughter. (The Board decided that they would sell copies of the completed book at cost.) Patricia O'Connor from Duke University suggested that we shouldn't use the word 'nontraditional' in the title, that its too negative. The Board discussed this and decided to keep it unless a better term could be found. O'Connor also suggested an article on 'Careers of the Future' - or careers that don't exist yet. Board members suggested that we accept more than one author per article and assign different articles to different committee members or Board members for editing so Ann Mauzy doesn't have to do it all. Board members also want to put professional associations and their web addresses with the articles. Personal contact information on the authors should be recorded for the Network's future use and authors should be asked whether or not they want it published in the booklet.

Debby Potter passed around her article on Ecology which will be emailed to all the authors-s as a sample article.

Central Chapter, Debby Potter

No Report

Northern Chapter

No Report

Silver City, Adrienne Dare

No Report

Southern Chapter

EYH Report: The Chapter has started thinking about the FY98 Conference and will have the first committee meeting in August. Jim Salvador, WSMR Youth Activities, has been invited to attend. He has sponsored Math and Science Camps here this summer. The conference date probably will be either February 5 or February 12, 1998.

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CHAPTER REPORTS

Central Chapter

No Report

Eastern Chapter (Mercedes Agogino)

No Report

Northern Chapter (Carol LaDelfe)

We had our summer picnic and two lunch time talks. The lunch time talks organized by Tinka Gammel are going well and will continue.

Southern Chapter (Karen Saenz)

No Chapter meetings have been held this summer. Our next meeting will be September 17 at Jane Madrid's home. Mary Bochmann will chair the catering and the program will be the Annual Meeting organization. The Chapter will co-sponsor the Hispanic Heritage Month Luncheon in September with the 3 Crosses Chapter FEW. LTC (retired) Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch will be the speaker.
New Mexico Network for

WOMEN IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
PO Box 18073, Albuquerque, NM 87185

1997/98 BOARD MEETING DATES:
December 4	Las Cruces
February 7	Alamogordo
April 18	Socorro
June
August 1	Los Alamos
October 24	Albuquerque