MINUTES WIS STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING OF June 29, 1994 Members of the steering committee met in Room E228 of the Otowi Building. Attending members were: Denise George Shirley Herrera Jo Irwin Deborah Kubicek Karen Schultz Paige Networking Seminar: Talk of the talk, what worked, what did not, and suggestions for next time. Karen wrote up a summary of the talk and will mail to Leslie to be put into the next Newsletter. The board agreed that the speaker, Rita Martinez-Purson, was great. It was suggested and agreed upon to bring her back if possible for Expanding Your Horizons. Suggestions: open up to more people next time (although we did have a good turn out), possibly do again in 6 months (since many who wished to be there were on vacation, etc), next time come a little earlier to set up. Discussion of mailing lists: The DHR has given permission to DeDe Collins, in association with the NMNWSE, to get a list of all women at the laboratory. We will use this list to mail out the Summer Picnic flier since this is our annual recruitment event and need to reach as many as possible. For our membership, Shirley created two up-to-date files. The first called inkjet to be used for mailing fliers. The second called labels to be used for putting labels on stuff to mail. Deborah currently has two disks: each with one of these files on it. We should probably keep these disks and only let CIC-10 (Lorraine Ortega Rm 125 of the Canyon Complex - go through Rm 117 to get there) get a copy when we actually mail things out. This way we will be able to update info as needed and know what the current lists look like. Summer Picnic: Deborah and Shirley got together the day before to organize. So far, here are the details: Set for Fri. July 29th from 5pm till dark at Urban park. The fees will be $3/person, children under 12 free, and $1/student/GRA/PostDoc. Shirley will call the Wellness Center for possible equipment rental. The food will be hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, soda, and a dessert. Supplies will be gotten the day before the picnic. We will do tickets like we did for the Network talk (since that worked so well). Trish is creating the flier to be mailed out next week Wed (July 6th). The fliers will be mailed out to women who are TSM, TECH, SSM, PostDoc, and technical contractors. Reply deadline will be Fri July 22. A reminder about the reply deadline will be put into the next Newsletter. We will have copies of the "membership survey" at the picnic for anyone interested in joining the Women in Science for 1994-95 year. Karen will get a copy of this to Deborah. Updated membership information will be dealt with by a sub group consisting of Shirley, Lois, Deborah, and Denise. We are hoping this system will be in place by the end of September (before the next year begins). This will allow future board members to access membership information when needed. Note: And possibly allow access to the information by anyone (eg members). The membership booklets were put together and mailed out to remaining of membership that did not attend the Networking talk. Deborah's test of the Voicemail mailbox worked great. All board members received their message. August talk: Susan said she was unable to get a hold of Donna Giquenta (sp). She will sent her a letter asking if she will speak in Aug. If unable to get a hold of her, the board gave Susan permission to change the speaker or even change the subject from Dependent Care to what she can find a speaker for. A suggestion was made to have Alicia Lauritzen talk on Dream Analysis. Next Newsletter: The board decided the following about the next Newsletter: To be mailed out by Friday, July 15th (2 weeks from now) Stuff to go in it is due to Leslie by COB Friday, July 8th (1 week from now) Stuff to go in it: * Review of Networking seminar - Karen - already done she just needs to mail it to you and have you proof it for her * Preview of up coming events: Summer Picnic - Deborah or Trish Annual NM Network Meeting - Jo * Section by Jo - general steering committee planning, member booklets out so please review your info and if incorrect or incomplete fill out last page and mail back * Article on Women and Computer Science on Mosaic - Leslie NOT included now, but to be sent out in a month or so: Voting for new steering committee members LA WIS annual meeting Dues Jo will contact Roberta Day Idzorek about her taking care of getting nominations for next years steering committee member replacements. The next Steering Committee Meeting will be July 20. Karen will make arrangements and send out announcements. ************************************************************* ** Agenda items for July 20th Steering Committee Meeting ** ************************************************************* Summer Picnic - sign up list August talk New board member candidates: who is leaving who is staying who would like to run again - get paragraph from them number of people we need to find September Annual Membership meeting October Annual NMNWSE meeting Next Newsletter: Voting for new steering committee members LA WIS Sept annual meeting Dues: Call NMNWSE for cost and deadline Due - Sept 30th? Summarize the survey's last two questions (on hold for now) Decide what the LAWIS "product" is Bylaws (should be a subtask) - approval of changes - update board member duties - WIS name change - membership approval of changes Setting up Voice Mail mail box for WIS membership - hold till next year Membership information subgroup status (Shirley/Lois/Deborah/Denise) Recruitment - More Publicity Mentoring/Aid UNM Coop program with UNM-LA Talk about DOE study (*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*) (*)*(*) Written: 7/01/94 by Deborah Kubicek - WIS Secretary (*)*(*) (*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)*(*)