Minutes of the 5th Annual Spring Meeting
Davidson College, Davidson NC

(Note: A brief description of the highlights of the meeting appeared in the Announcer 30 (2) 23-24 (2000). Also a note relating to Karl Mamola's appointment as editor of The Physics Teacher and of his replacement as Section Representative by Hugh Haskell appeared in the Announcer 30 (3) 63-63 (2000).)

1. Roll Call: Haskell, Wetli, Bennett, Briggs, Hubisz, Kolena, McAlexander, plus about 35 members. Mamola (excused absence)

2. The Minutes of the Fall 1999 were accepted as distributed on motions by Mazurski and Putnam.

3. The Treasurer's report was accepted as distributed on motions by Kolena and McAlexander.

4. There was no report from the High School or Four-Year College/University representatives. McAlexander reported on the Two-Year College activities having to do with physics in TYCs, engineering technology and mathematics for engineers. Rick Swanson is the editor of Vector and any and all notes of interest should be sent to him. The results of their recent election were also mentioned.

5. Larry Cain reported on the facilities statistics with regard to attendance and encouraged members to tour the campus.

6. Hugh Haskell presented the Section Representativeâs report for Karl Mamola. Information on deadlines for upcoming national meetings, half-price one-year memberships, upcoming vote on changes to the national AAPT Constitution, lifetime memberships (15x one-year dues), putting Physics Today on-line, and the effort to get contact persons at all colleges and universities to promote AAPT. The death of Richard Childers was sadly noted.

7. Hugh Haskell presented the Awards Committee report. Don Collins won the award for the best pedagogical paper ($150 towards expenses to give a similar paper at a national meeting) and Lisa Grable won the award for the best graduate student paper ($100) at the Fall 1999 Meeting. Patricia (Patty) R. Blanton won the Walter Connolly Award and was presented the award by Walter Connolly. Honorable Mention went to John Brown, R. Noble Dillard, and Teresa McMurray.

8. The Fall 2000 meeting will be held on October 13-14 at USC-Spartanburg. Contact person is Edwin (Rudy) Jones. The Spring 2001 Meeting will be held March 16-17 at the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics in Durham.

9. Ballots that had been previously handed out were counted by Bennett and Briggs and the results presented: Vice-President - Prabha Ramakrishnan of Carteret Community College; Secretary-Treasurer - John Hubisz of North Carolina State University; and Four-Year College/University Representative - Rajive Tiwari of Belmont Abbey College.

10. Adjournment: Bo Wessell moved and the meeting adjourned.

Submitted by John Hubisz,
Secretary-Treasurer, NCS-AAPT
Hubisz@unity.ncsu.edu

(Note: Please realize that the official abbreviation for the Section is NCS-AAPT so as not to be confused with the Northern California Section.)

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