Attended by: Cindy, Dave, David, Kyle, Merri, James. Faculty: Rob
Order of Business:

We had some great ideas brought up tonight and I thought that I would share some. (They might need to be a little more developed though.)

Fund-raising-
Almost everyone seemed to like the silent auction idea
Dust off the cookie sheets we are going to be bake saling it again
Pancake breakfast at the Cat/Griz game was another one brought up.

Lectures-
Local authors
Get some of the people that speak at the museum to come to MSU

Service-
The pioneer museum seemed excited about the prospect of a group coming into help every once in a while.
Local oral histories

Ways to get the word out and be visible
Historical blurbs in the school paper
a basic newsletter (Historic book reviews, papers, summaries of lectures)
CLUB AWARENESS DAYS- This is next week and I will be sending out a sign up sheet ASAP
Interface with the local high schools
Another idea was to have study groups for history classes sort of headed by members but open to classes

The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Thursday the 25th Any person that is interested in a leadership position that was not at the first meeting please email me!

September 18th, Exec meeting:

Attended by: Cindy, Dave, Kyle, and Heidi
Order of Business:

OLD BUSINESS

Cindy had reserved the Ballrooms for lectures. We decided to hold the lectures in October, November, and February and then four in March. In December there will be the silent auction, and then in April is the annual Conference.

NEW BUSINESS

It was decided to give a $ 200 scholarship and to award it at the Silent Auction which will be held in December.

It was also decided to create a points system, for which a certain percentage of points given to each event, and then the people with at least 60% of the points will either receive their sashes paid for, or the chapter will pay a certain percentage of the bill.

The March Lecture Series ? Some thoughts that exec had for topics were as follows with the presenter in parenthesis: Lewis & Clark (Headwaters Organization); History of Bozeman (Architect who knows the history); Women in Montana (Mary Murphy); Native Americans in Montana (Native American Professor); Paleontology or Archeology (Jack Horner)

Some publicity outlets were thought of as follows: ASK-US, Montana PBS, Radio Stations, Bozeman Chronicle, and Flyers.

Some lecture ideas: Study of Bozeman Architecture, VFW, and Museum of the Rockies, Chamber of Commerce, and Gallatin Valley Historical Society.
It was also decided that we will be leading study groups for all the classes that Phi Alpha Theta members are in.
The possibility of a Pancake Feed on November 23, (Cat/Griz) was also discussed. It was decided to talk to Professors LeCain and Reidy to see exactly how to go about doing that.

It was also decided that there will be a bake sale on Friday

September 25:

Attended by: Heidi, Kyle, Cindy, Dave, Spencer, Patrick, Merri, Heather, Earl, Amanda, Ashely. Faculty: Tim and Rob
Order of Business:

Corina Beck from Career services provided a lecture on different career options for students graduating with a Humanities degree. She also offered resources on where to look for jobs for those graduating. Bridgett, a grad student in history, also presented a brief lecture on her summer internship at Yellowstone National Park. Professor Tim LeCain also presented his work as a consultant on super fund clean ups.
Chapter President Cindy Swenson led a discussion on what the differences between Phi Alpha Theta and History Club. She also discussed some different fundraising ideas.

September 26:
First Bake Sale
Worked by Cindy, Dave, Kyle, and Patrick. Total of $42 dollars raised.
October 2003

October 9:

Attended by: Twenty members and friends present Faculty: Michael
Order of Business:

The Upsilon Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta initiated six new members; Heidi Yost, Brant Loedy, Dave Pudelka, Heather Hultman, Brandi David, Merri Ketterer and Patrick Laughlin. After the initiation ceremony the new initates along with members from the history club and history faculty all enjoyed a barbecue. No business was discussed.

October 22:

Attended by: Cindy, Dave, Brandi, Heather, Earl, Amy, Merri Grad: Frank Faculty: Mary, Dale, Tim
Order of Business:

Phi Alpha Theta met at Professor Mary Murphy's house of a potluck, spaghetti dinner and a short presentation by doctoral candidate, Dawn Nickel.
Dawn Nickle, from University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, shared part of her thesis research with the group. Her thesis presentation is entitled, Tracking the Grim Reaper: A Study of Death and Dying in Early Twentieth Century Montana.
Dawn's research is based on Canadian and Montanan obituaries, mortuary information and diaries of the terminally ill who were dying at home at the turn of the century. She found that single, working men, without any family were dying in the hospitals, like William Cummins, an old timer admitted to the Sister's Hospital, with incurable cancer. Homesteader Charles Swain's obituary of March 8, 1923 stated that he dies in Wetaskiwin hospital, without any relatives in Canada.
Married men and women were being cared for at home, until their deaths. Women were providing hospice care for the dying. Mrs Mary Sharkey "passed away at her home," January 18, 1923.
Interesting facts that emerged from the meeting were: Although hospice care is considered a revolution of the 1970's in which the soul and body are nurtured, in fact this type of care predates the hospice title. Those with family are the ones that tend to receive this encompassing care. There was an interesting analogy between the circles that women form when having children, (midwife, neighbors, etc) that also seems to emerge when caring for the dying.
Dawn closed by answering some questions from the group.
The meeting was a wonderful evening of sharing: food, company and methodology.

November 2003:
November 6:

Attended by: Dave, Kyle, Cindy, Heather. Faculty: None
Order of Business:
Silent Auction
need donations
Concert (possible fund raiser)
Lecture series
need to contact people about coming in
Club activities
any ideas?
Recruitment
both in the sub
need to get more people
Web page up date
needs to be done
News letter
plans for the future
re-cap things done this semester
Conference
who is going
who is presenting papers
possibly present papers at meeting before conference
 
 

November 19:

Attended by: Brandi, Merri, Dave, Kyle, Heidi, Cindy, Faculty: Rob
Order of Business:
 

The first order of business was the silent auction. Items up for auction were discussed and they following were decided on: lunch specials from Columbos, Pickel Barrell, Fast Louie's, Cassia Sanchez, and the Habit. Gift certificates from the Coffee houses, and the Country Book Store, as well as a night in a motel and ski passes, dinner and theater tickets, movie certificates and free pizza, as well as some old books, and a second edition Darwin book along with a Darwin trading card. If any of you have ideas, please email us ASAP.
Tickets for the Silent Auction will again be $6 for a single and $ 10 for a couple, that will give you three tickets for drinks/person. All those under the age of 21 will not receive the option to drink the alcohol provided.
We also discussed speaker ideas for the March lecture series. If you have any ideas again please email us.
We will also be selling cookie plates. They will be $5 for a dozen cookies, and $8 for 2 dozen, one pound of fudge will be $5 and small bags of sweet popcorn will be $ 2.50 and large bags will be $ 5.
 
 

December 2003:

December 6 Silent Auction:

Attended by:Cindy, Heidi, Dave, Kyle, Brant, Andrew, Merri, Heather, Earl and Pat
Faculty: Tim, Michael, Rob, Mary, Michelle, Dale, and Yanna

We also had some other wonderful guests, Sage, Heather's husband and Cheri
Thanks to those that came

Order of Business:
Well, we had a successful silent auction last night, on the backs of the few but faithful. (Thank you all that showed!) We had a fun time and some pretty good food, if I do say so myself. We awarded our first scholarship and the proud recipient was Merri Ketterer. Congratulations once again. In all we raised enough to replenish the scholarship fund for next year, help with the trip to the conference, help with publicizing the upcoming lecture series and maybe some recruitment.
Next Semester!
Some of our plans:
January: Recruitment drive!
Second week of school: Included info session, info table, some visits to General Studies classes, a lecture... we need to be active and get seen on campus to get the numbers up.
March: National History month
Phi Alpha Theta in conjunction with the Diversity Awareness Office will be sponsoring a month long lecture series open to the public.
April: Conference
Regional Conference! Come read that great capstone paper of yours! We are hoping to send at least 5 people to PRESENT! (Information to follow.)
Thanks everyone that worked so hard to make this semester so great.
 

January 2004:

JJanuary 19, Exec meeting

Attended by: Kyle, Dave, Cindy
Order of Business:

Just a quick exec meeting to talk about the upcoming events. Mortar Board submission are due so those that have been assigned that task please complete them and hand them in. We also discussed the need for more fundraising. We have concluded that a raffle in conjunction with the lecture series would be a great way to make some money. This week we will be having an information table in the SUB and "change your major for the day" Plans for the tutoring center are coming a long and we will hopefully have a place to do this soon. We will be ending the recruitment week with a movie and Pizza!

January 23

Attended by: Kyle, Cindy, Heather, Earl, Dave, Brant, Dave Faculty: Michael and Billy
Order of Business:

Friday nights meeting/ pizza party marked the end of spring recruitment week. Invitation were sent out to all History majors as a welcome back to the semester. Although attendance was low, those who came enjoyed themselves. We gathered in Reid hall to view ìThe Patriotî and eat some pizza, followed by an intellectual critique/ discussion led by the esteemed Billy Smith Ph.D. Special thanks to Billy for taking time out of his busy schedule to spend a Friday night with us. With the semester underway, we are hammering out the final details for our lecture series in March, and working on papers to be presented at the conference in April. Thanks once again to all those die-hards who spent the night with us.
 

February 2004:

February 9th

Attended by: Cindy, Dave, Earl, Heather, Dave, Pat, Andrew, Kyle Merri, Stovall, Edmund Faculty: Tim LeCain
Order of Business:

Discussion during the meeting began with General housekeeping issues regarding distribution of tasks in preparing for the lecture series, and setting up hours for the tutoring center for the history department. We then moved on to ascertaining who would be attending the regional conference April 17th and 18th, as well as who would be presenting papers. Tim gave us a run down on what to expect at the conference. It was decided that there would be sufficient attendance to go forward with the Trip to Montana Historical Society, State Archives and Capital on April 16th.
 
 

March 2004:

March 2, First Lecture  "Inspiration all Around" Elizabeth Lochrie, Montana Painter

Attended by: Kyle, Heidi, Earl, Peter, Dave Beylund, Heather, Merri, Cindy and 30 other students and public
Faculty: Michael and Mary

         Mary Murphy gave a presentation on Elizabeth Lochrie, a Montana woman artist. Some of her art is stored at the Holter Museum in Helena. She was born in 1890 and came to reside in Butte. She was the first woman artist from Montana, to win a U.S. Post Office commission to paint a mural. She also painted murals at the Gaylen TB Center. One theme in her paintings were the Native Americans, abstracted form history. Her father had photographed the Cree Indians, so this was a natural theme for her. She would drive out to the reservations and paint them, even capturing a sacred ceremony, the sun dance. Just like Frank Linderman, author of the Pretty-Shields biography, Elizabeth would dress up in Native American costume and present talks, for a small fee as a way to raise funds for new friends.

        Professor Murphy stressed Elizabeth was not only a commercial artist, but a mother as well. Few people expected her to do both jobs competently, but she did win Mother of the Year. Her husband was a banker, so they could afford to hire domestic help, which allowed her freedom to paint. At this point, Elizabeth was contrasted to another woman artist, Fra Dana. Fra Dana had no support for her painting from her husband. Fra lived on an isolated ranch and found to inspiration in the surrounding landscape. Elizabeth Lochrie was able to "turn change into chance," as Professor Murphy said. When the presentation was concluded, Professor Murphy took questions from the audience. One womanâ€ôs father had remodeled Elizabethâ€ôs art studio in Butte, receiving as requested Native American paintings as payment.
 

March 7, 2004 Second Lecture: "T-Rex Big, Fierce, & Overrated."

Attended By: Kyle, Heather, Cindy, Heidi, Earl, Peter and 75 other students and public

        During a playful introduction paleontologist Jack Horner reminded audience that the tyrannosaurus really isn't a corvette chasing, dog killing, or child chasing dinosaur. This evening Jack Horner presented information regarding the idea that the tyrannosaurus rex was really a scavenger dinosaur not a predator dinosaur. He also mentioned that being a paleontologist was great, he gets to find the bones and that the graduate students get to dig them up.
        A few of the facts Horner related included that the tyrannosaurus is most famous for its' teeth, and that unlike other carnivorous predators the tyrannosaurus's teeth are rounded instead of blade shaped. The tyrannosaurus walked bow legged most likely shifting its tail side to side. Horner also related that the tyrannosaurus had very large olfactory lobes that enabled it to smell over large distances. With his high center of gravity if the tyrannosaurus fell down, there would be no getting back up (he'd only fall down once) his arms were too short to be of any use. The audience learned that in 2004 after a tally Montana had unearthed 18 tyrannosaurus skeletons, which was considerable more than South Dakota's 5, Albertaís 2, Saskatawanís 1, and Wyomingís 4. The audience also learned that there had been no Dromaeosaur skeletons found.
 

March 9, 2004 Third Lecture: "Ten things that I learned while looking up something else"

Attended By: Kyle, Heather, Cindy, Heidi, Earl and 75 other students and public
Faculty: Bob Rydell, Rob Campbell

March 31, 2004 Fourth Lecture: "Preserving Bozeman's Historic Legacy"

Attended By: Kyle, Heather, Cindy, Heidi, 10 other students and public
Faculty: Tim LeCain
 

April 2004:
April 2, 2004 Boys and Girls Ranch Service
AFter a call for needed goods went out to help a local ranch that takes in foster kids in transition, families with emergencies etc. We donated three backpacks full of "stuff" We included the needed stuff like toothbrushes etc., but we also through in some stuff animals for the younger kids and a few homemade fleece blankets.  For the older ones just some nice non-essentials. The extra stuff we packed up in some bags and all was greatly appreciated

April 8, 2004 Fifth Lecture: "Was God on Vacation?"

Attended By:  Canceled due to speaker's illness, rescheduled to next fall
Faculty:

April 10, 2004 Pioneer Museum Service

Attended By: Merri, Dave, Darin, Cindy, Andrew
Faculty: None

We spent the morning helping out the Pioneer Museum. They have been re-cataloging all their items and organizing their stuff.  We helped them organize and clean out their basement and Atiic, along with setting up a new exhibit.

April 10, 2004 Induction

Attended By: Merri, Dave, Darin, Cindy, Andrew, Edmund, Preston, Heather
Faculty: None
We had a wonderful meal at the Habit.  We inducted a few new members: Earl Gustkey, Jessica K. Charissa Furhman, Preston Stovall, Edmund R. and Peter Smith. It was great to share a wonderful lunch basking in the sun and discussing the upcoming conference.

April 17-18, 2004 Conference

Attended By: Presenters: Miles, John L. John G., Cindy, Merri, Andrew, Preston Support: Heather, Pat, Edmund
Faculty: Tim and Rob

A great weekend! Unfortunitly all of us were stacked into one time slot so that we could not see eachothers,  There were a lot of subjects convered and some really great papers. We also proved that we are all nerds since after dinner we retired to our respective rooms and did homework. (You know the end is near when we are doing that on a Friday Night.) Two sessions were taped so that next years people know what they are up agianst. (We didn't get the commentators though) We also know that we will be having two people at least presenting next year and that is a great start!