MINUTES WIS STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING OF February 2, 1994
Members of the steering committee met in room E-228 of the Ottowi Building.
Attending members were:
Denise George
Shirley Herrera
Deborah Kubicek
Karen Schultz Paige
Jo Skrivan
Lynda Towers
Wendee Brunish
Roberta Day Idzorek
Pat Nickel
Alexine Salazar
Carol Wilkinson
This meeting was dedicated mainly to planning for Expanding Your Horizons.
Local Science Fair (Saturday Feb. 5th):
Denise wished to use WIS money to give science fair prizes to elementary
aged girls?. She suggested seven $10 gift certificates to Ottowi
Station Bookstore and a $75 scholarship to the Children's College
which is at UNM-LA during the summer. A vote was made and it was a
unanimous vote of the 6 board members present to go ahead with this.
Denise will ask Ottowi Station if they would consider donating one or
more of the gift certificates. Wendee and Denise will help with the
Science Fair Judging this Saturday.
Wendee mentioned that a number of employees are getting together to see about
getting a union started at the Laboratory. If anyone is interested in
going to the meeting it will be Feb 21st. Contact Wendee for further
details.
Wendee mentioned that Public Affairs wants to know if the WIS wanted to get
involved with the Women and Daughters activity in April. The WIS board
members agreed unanimously that they do not have the time due to EYH
and Careers and Curiosities and that the WIS want to focus on girls
that do not have direct exposure (by a parent) to the sciences.
Shirley announced that Gloria Cordova from Public Relations wishes to become
a liaison to the WIS. This was unanimously agreed upon by the board.
Next meeting will be around Noon on Thursday Feb. 10th. Karen will arrange
the room at send us all out notices.
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** Agenda items for February 10th steering committee meeting **
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Determine next meeting time
Expanding Your Horizons (EYH):
1. Finance (Roberta Day Idzorek)
a. Budget
Review of Budget:
Income:
Starting Balance: $ 416
State Network contribution: $ 200
Donations: $ ??? See below for status
TOTAL: $ 616
Expenses:
Transportation:
from/to EYH: $ 90
from/to workshops: $ 175
Refreshments: $ *** See below for details
Administrative Supplies: $ ???
Pamphlets, brochures, etc.: $ 0 Taken care of by PR
Postage: $ 0 Taken care of by LANL
T-shirts/"give aways" $ ??? Depends on donations
TOTAL: $ ***
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Quest for donations:
AAUW - Denise
Baskin & Robbins - Shirley
CJ Enterprises - Lynda
Collen - Denise
DeDe (Network) - Shirley
Gordons - Jo
LANB - Wendee
Mike Smith - Jo
McDonalds - Shirley
New Deputy for Nuclear Weapons Technology - Wendee
Ottowi - Denise
Pete Miller Denise
RBooks - Roberta
Sonic - Shirley
Settled Issues:
Roberta took last years and reworked it
A copy of the budget was sent around - many question marks
WIS treasure has about $1000 in it
Gloria Cordova from Public Affairs was contacted about financial/
other support: They will help with anything that needs Xeroxing,
mailing, funding folders, etc.
Shirley contacted Protocol about getting help. Protocol says that
since this is such a short notice, they will not be able to help
at all.
Denise asked Linda Trocki help w/ funding. Probably will not help.
Unable to contact.
Cut off Date for contributors is Feb 16th (brochure deadline)
b. Suggestions for T-shirts, buttons, etc.
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Denise will go to Office Club to look for "give aways".
Pat and Lynda look in Sam's Club for ideas for "give aways".
These items need to be decided/ordered SOON!
Settled Issues:
Karen looked into scientific gadgets/toys
Lois looked into Protocol for money and/or give away items: None
It is believed that the Network has rules regarding the amount WIS
can give toward transportation. Last year we gave $90.
We have 9 T-shirts remaining from last year. It was suggested that
these be given away in a drawing for the girls.
Was suggested to have the raffle directly after lunch (must be
present to win) in order to get the girls back in time for
the afternoon session.
c. Refreshments (Shirley)
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Suggested:
(1 coffee/hot cocoa + 1 soda + 2 cookies) * 200 people = $440.00
Settled Issues:
Shirley will check with Protocol about getting these ordered:
Hot cocoa for the morning
Cookies and punch for the afternoon
Prices: $ .45 /person/coffee
$ .45 /person/hot cocoa
$ .50 /person/cookie
$ .65 /person/punch
$ .75 /person/soda
Note: These prices do include set up and clean up
2. Program ( Jo and Karen)
a. Status on Presenters (need about 15 presenters)
Current List of Presenters:
Name Status Topic Location
Renita Cook Yes Polymers ?
Karen Schultz Paige Yes Lazers ?
Joyce Guzik Yes Rockets ?
Deborah Kubicek Yes Computers ?
Kathleen Ramsey Yes Veterinary Science ?
Jan Benson Maybe Maps/Geography ?
Marke Talley Yes Water testing ?
Donna Berg Yes Library Info System ?
Mary Stinecipher Yes Explosives ?
Kim Thomas Yes Radioactivity ?
Carroll Thomas Maybe Industrial Hygiene ?
Carol Wilkinson Yes Cosmic Physics ?
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Jo and Karen need to schedule a meeting with the presenters and
gophers to make sure presentations are not too advanced for
b. Current Program Layout
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome by Gloria
9:10 - 9:45 Kathleen opening ???
10:00 - 11:15 Morning workshops
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch out
12:30 Raffle of T-shirts (must be present to win)
1:00 - 2:15 Afternoon workshops
2:30 - 2:45 Speaker from LANL closing
2:45 - 3:30 Robin Marshment closing ???
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Try to get Kathleen and Robin to switch places.
Settled Issues:
Tape created by LANL, UNM-LA, and a TV station? entitled
"Women in Science Critical Mass" we can possibly show during
registration. This video is in an MTV style advertisement to
get girls (grade 6 thru HS) interested in the science fields.
It comes with a curriculum for the teachers. Carol will bring
to the next meeting.
c. Speakers status
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Robin Marshment would like to come but has a problem with early
morning. try to get Robin and Kathleen to switch time slots.
Lynda will call Kathleen about switching.
Wendee will call Robin about switching.
Need a speaker from LANL for closing
Settled Issues:
Alexine Salazar contacted Gloria Cordova about being the opening
speaker for the conference. She accepted.
Lynda talked to Dr. Kathleen Ramsay about being the closing speaker.
She accepted and will also probably participate in a workshop.
Wendee prepared a letter to go out to Robin Marshment to invite
her to be the second speaker for opening. She accepted but ...
3. Evaluations (Pat Nickel)
OUTSTANDING Issues:
What is the purpose of the evaluations?
Do we want information back about certain aspects?
Do we need to rewrite the evaluation forms?
To be discussed at the next meeting.
Pat will bring the forms to the next meeting so we can all decide
on the questions raised.
Settled Issues:
Got forms to give to Pat
Big discussion about evaluations: was unable to get anything very
informative from last years evaluations.
4. Facilities (Wendee)
a. Status on Facilities
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Shirley to call Patsy at the Study Center to decide how they can
help us.
ACL - ?
Settled Issues:
University House and Study Center are both reserved.
Canyon - unable to get
a. Transportation
OUTSTANDING Issues:
LABUS to/from presenter sites - Wendee
Lab Vans - unable to find out anything. Was suggested that everyone
contact their group office to see if they can use their van for
the day.
Settled Issues:
5. Public Relations (Lynda)
a. Brochure
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Material needs to be gathered
Settled Issues:
We should list the donators on the brochure.
The Brochure should contain: schedule, presenters/demos,
donations/sponsors, adult programs
Deadline for getting material for brochure is Wed. Feb 16th
b. Adult Recruitment (Jo and Karen)
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Possibilities:
Mary Jo Lundy to talk on college financing
Tour of Science Museum - Roberta will ask ? or was it Wendee?
? Handouts or someone to talk about Summer Adult Programs
Settled Issues:
Elizabeth Aiello was written to by Jo about a tour of museum but
no reply yet.
c. Registration (Alexine)
Settled Issues:
Shirley contacted Protocol about getting help with registration.
Due to such a short notice they will be unable to help us with
any aspect of EYH.
d. Contacts
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Jo to write flyers to Lab Women about participation.
Need to send a memo to Sig Hecker about sponsoring EYH.
Contact the school of Deaf to invite girls from there. They will
need to provide their own signers - Denise
Jo will contact The Monitor about before/after ?during? coverage.
Settled Issues:
Denise sent out the letters to the schools.
Karen sent flyers to WIS about participation.
e. Girl's Packet (Lynda)
OUTSTANDING Issues:
Lynda to gather packet contents
Time/place to assemble packets?
Settled Issues:
Lynda called DeDe about getting the information from the Network
that goes into the packets.
Shirley has the Network's updated materials for the packets
Lynda talked to Georgia Fritz about looking into getting EYH
stickers made for the handout packet (about 200).
Meeting to get together to assemble packets
f. Adult's Packet
OUTSTANDING Issues:
What is going on here?
Settled Issues:
Carol will also bring to the next meeting information about the
New Mexico Museum of Natural History Science by Mail Program.
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** Agenda item for future steering committee meetings **
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Bylaws
- approval of changes
- update board member duties
- WIS name change
Replacement of Carolyn Robinson and Elizabeth Aiello
Subtasks: what topics can we attack using this method?
Mentoring/Aid UNM Co-op program with UNM-LA
Talk about DOE study
Networking
Recruitment
More Publicity
Talks
Listing of those involved in Expanding Your Horizons:
Lois Dauelsberg
Denise George
Shirley Herrera
Deborah Kubicek
Karen Schultz Paige
Jo Skrivan
Leslie Swanson
Lynda Towers
Wendee Brunish
DeDe Collins
Georgia Fritz
Roberta Day Idzorek
Carol LaDelfe
Pat Nickel
Alexine Salazar
Carol Wilkinson
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