Minutes
Business Meeting
NCS-AAPT
4th Annual Spring
Meeting
Forsyth Technical Community
College
Winston-Salem NC 27103
April 24, 1999
1.
Roll
Call: Hubisz, Patty, Haskell, Wetli,
Mamola, McAlexander, McMurray, plus about 40 members.
2.
Minutes
- Fall 1998 Meeting: It was moved and
seconded that the minutes be accepted as distributed. Motion passed unanimously.
3.
Treasurer's
Report (John Hubisz): Prior to monies deposited in conjunction with the Spring
Meeting we have a balance of $3000 plus a $1000 CD that matures in October
1999.
4.
Section
Representative, Karl Mamola, announced the untimely passing of Bob Sears,
President-Elect of the AAPT. He also
mentioned some cost-cutting proposals that were being proposed nationally, the
extension of the half-price AAPT membership offer, and gave dates of upcoming
national meetings and some deadlines.
Complete details are in the Minutes.
5. Committee Reports: The Awards Committee announced the finalists for the Walter C.
Connolly Award for Excellence in Pre-College Teaching. Certificates of nomination were presented to
Patricia Blanton of Watauga High School in Boone, R. Noble Dillard of the
Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, and Terri McMurray of the Career
Center, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools.
The winner, Elizabeth Woolard of WG Enloe High School in Raleigh,
received a certificate, a one-year membership in the national AAPT, and a
cheque for $300. Walter C. Connolly
made the presentations.
A
new award for “Outstanding Service to the Section” to be given occasionally was
announced and the first recipient was John Hubisz, Secretary-Treasurer. The award is to be called the “John L.
Hubisz Award” and carries with it a certificate and $500. President Hugh Haskell presented the award
with remarks that were both complimentary and humorous to the delight of the
audience.
Aaron
McAlexander described a successful TYC meeting Friday evening after the ice
cream social.
6. Future Meetings: The Fall 1999 Meeting will
be held at Appalachian State on October 8-9th, and the contact person will be
Trish Allen, allenpe@appstate.edu
or the secretary-treasurer. October 8th
will be close to a new moon, which will make a trip to the Dark Sky Observatory
a nice field trip. Cliff Swartz has
tentatively agreed to be a guest speaker.
(SACS will have their meeting on October 22-23rd at the
College of Charleston featuring demonstrations by Dick and Rae, an astronomical
observing party, and free registration for all K-12 teachers. Contact Fred Watts at wattsf@cofc.edu
for further details.) In the Spring of
2000 we meet at Davidson College (Contact Larry Cain at lacain@davidson.edu
for further details.) In the Fall of
2000 we meet jointly with SACS in South Carolina and in the Spring of 2001 at
NCSSM in Durham.
7. Elections:
Elections were held and the results were: John Kolena of NCSSM,
Pre-College Representative; Helen Briggs of Lenoir-Rhyne, Vice-President; and
Karl Mamola of Appalachian State, Section Representative.
8.
Drawings
for prizes: Several prizes, compliments
of our sponsors, were distributed to holders of the lucky tickets. Coffee and snacks were provided by donations
from our sponsors. See the list of
sponsors in the program and remember to thank them.
9.
Adjourn: Meeting went a little overtime and
adjournment was spontaneous.
John
L. Hubisz, Secretary-Treasurer
(919)515-3182