Chapter
of Women in Aviation International
www.oocities.org/wiaiwashington
Meeting
Minutes 2/14/2004
Meeting
called to order by Leslie Barstow, Vice President in Janet Knight‘s
(President) absence.
Recording
secretary absent, GaylenWright took minutes. Introductions made by members present. Attendance: Jayne Mickas,
Cynthia Lawson, Leslie Barstow, Trish Beckman, Laina
Reeves, Linda Russell, Rene Hershberger, Amy Ellis, Gaylen
Wright, Vera Martinovich, Anne Lovett, Jana Young
Happy
Bucks from introductions & discussion = $25.00 Dues received = $40.00
Treasure’s report to be presented later,
Treasurer absent.
Minutes
from January
Announcements: Women Fly at the Museum of Flight – March 19
& 20th
Leslie
Barstow invited the Washington Chapter of WIA to attend a show she is sponsoring at
Galvin Aviation in May on business aircraft and jet preview.
Cynthia
discussed the upcoming Puyallup NW Aviation Tradeshow February 21 – 22, 2004. Volunteers are needed for the Tradeshow to
staff our booth and as tradeshow greeters.
Contact Cynthia Lawson at Cynthia.e.Lawson@boeing.com or call her at
425.266.5351.
Old
Business:
Discussion on Trades show and our participation. Booth to be set up by Linda
Russell. Cynthia Lawson arranged
for International WIA to supply more magazines for our booth. We have pins, chocolate airplanes and a few
other items for sale at the booth.
Committee
volunteers are needed –
Ø Cynthia Lawson will chair
the Education Committee,
Ø Jayne Mickas
will chair the Fundraising Committee and
Ø Sissi Smithhart will chair the
Scholarship Committee.
Ø Trish Beckman has
volunteered to chair the Outreach Committee
Ø Rene Hershberger
volunteered to chair the Speaker Committee with Vera Martinovich
and Gaylen Wright helping.
A
suggestion for future meetings is to have the committee chair/head give a brief
report to our group. They can meet
outside of our monthly meeting and only spend a brief time reporting on
progress. Gaylen
will send out an announcement with the next mass emailing – announcing
committee chairs along with email addresses for anyone interested in
participating on a committee. An
announcement will also be made on the winner of the International WIA Conference
certificate [3/11- 3/13 2004],
Trish
discussed briefly the March Women Fly event and asked for volunteers to
sponsor a youth. An announcement will go
to the group requesting volunteers to contact Trish at patricia.L.beckman@boeing.com if interested in a $5.00
donation to sponsor a youth to attend this event. They are also looking for mentors for the
Friday Youth Program (3/19). Contact
Trish or Leslie Barstow lbarstow@hotmail.com.
Jayne
presented the Outlines for Educational Committee that she has offered to the
committee. Motion was made by Jayne to
purchase a recorder and record meetings, Leslie seconded this and all were in
favor.
Leslie
Barstow discussed a new high school devoted to aviation. This will open at Boeing Field and its one of
a kind. They are in the process of
recruiting 8th graders now. This
is a public school, and hopes to open in the fall (2004) with 100 students.
New
Business:
Cynthia
asked for a potential volunteer to speak to a Girl Scout group. WIA supports the Girl Scout program.
Joyne Mickas asked for interested Washington Chapter of WIA members to
contact her if interested in going to the Reno Air Races this fall (Sept.
2004). Any members wanting a Name Tag
should contact Jayne, she will soon be placing a new order – cost ~$12.00.
*Motion
was made and seconded to forgo the March
Board
Meeting (2/14/04) summary shared with group.
Our website will only post information related to our chapter and
educational events. Our non-profit
status does not allow for advertising.
Board approval will be conditional prior to any posting.
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Reminder to all members that our local chapter
dues are due in February $10.00. Members
must first be a member of WIA, in order to join our local chapter. Include your WIA number with dues
payment. Dues are used for:
Mailbox,
WAI Chapter fee, Chapter Insurance, State Business renewal fee, Operational
costs (postage, office supplies), Trade Show expenses, Outreach programs and
more.
Announcements:
The Washington State Chapter of WAI invites all
Help
wanted!
The
Washington State Chapter of Women in Aviation will be participating in the
shared chapter showcase booth at this year’s conference. Each chapter is assigned a one hour time slot
at the showcase booth in the exhibitor’s hall.
This is our time to s how off our chapter to others, especially those
from
We
need volunteers to staff the showcase booth.
Remember, it only one hour. Those
interested should contact Linda Russel at lindarvfr@msn.com AND Janet Knight at SEAflyprincess@aol.com
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Minutes submitted by Gaylen Wright, Corresponding Secretary