UMA Board
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Present:
Jan Blue, Linda Carl, Libby Evans, Jo Ann Gustafson, Kim Duval, George Gulla
Membership:
Cheryl briefly stopped by to report that four new members have been recruited
and she will send Libby an update on membership.
Archives:
At the February Board meeting, Fran Allegri and Janis
Holder will discuss the content and how UMA archives will be handled.
Photograph of Board: Libby will bring a digital camera to the January meeting in Memorial
Hall to take a photograph of the UMA board for the website and for other
publicity purposes. If only a portion of
the board is present, she will also try to capture participants. If the January
photograph does not work out, a photograph of the board will be taken in the
February meeting.
Publicity Photograph: Kim will contact the University Gazette to see if
they will take a photo or do a story on the Memorial Hall tour. In any story or
photo, the Gazette should be encouraged to include information on how to join
UMA.
to replace her in organizing the conversation
lunches.
Conversation lunches: Libby will
ask for a volunteer If an e-mail request to the
membership does not yield a volunteer, she will go through the list and try to
recruit a member for this task.
Kim will contact Jean Smythe to see if she will do the February conversation on
the implications of downloading copyrighted material, potential consequences
for those who download illegally, and appropriate use of state property for
downloading personal items.
UMA website content: Jo Anne is working on setting
up the website so a person without sophisticated web skills can manage the
site. The content of the site also needs
to be clear .
The suggested goals for the site were to recruit new members and
maintain current members. Two critical items were a list of programs and a list
of members. The program listing might be to a link in the faculty staff section
of the events calendar. In order to test
the usefulness of this idea, Libby will send the board an example of how this
might look. Board members will be asked
for feedback.
Future Programs:
Flyers: Kim will prepare a flyer with the same format for
each program. Kim will work with Linda’s assistant to prepare a paper mailing to the
membership with all programs
Networking: Networking will occur at the end of the program at
Memorial Hall and at the beginning of the next two programs. When the host
program will permit, Kim will work with Carolina Dining services to make
arrangements for cookies and lemonade for 25-30 people.
Topics/speakers: Since Fred Brooks has not been responsive to requests to
be the focus of a program, other program topics will be pursued. Kim is waiting
to hear if Dean Smith will discuss the lessons from his book, “The
Future meetings: Programs are problematic for June-July-August. As
per previous board discussion Kim will start working on program topics for the
next calendar year. The possibility of
focusing a program around a video conference will be explored.