(Officers Call)
I. President Tammy Boclair (Vanderbilt) discussed options for a
Kickoff Luncheon Speaker and the board made a recommendation of a
speaker for Boclair to pursue.
II. Boclair said the Ethics Committee would present a report on the
next Board Call.
III. Boclair said that Jack Neumann was working to get more Canadian
SIDs involved with the 2004 convention. She said Barb Kowal would be
sending information for the Digest and website on preparing for Calgary.
IV. First Vice President Rod Commons (Washington State) asked if there
was a site that would show the conversion rate between the American and
Canadian dollar. Maxey Parrish said there was one on the Travel Canada
and Parrish linked a conversion table to the CoSIDA site during the
call.
V. Commons said he had surveyed the CoSIDA committee chairs to see who
was planning to attend the Calgary Convention and who would be having
meetings. He said he had already received a positive response from
seven committee chairs.
VI. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter (Ithaca, N.Y.) had a series of questions
for Commons on the Workshop Program schedule.
* He asked if there would be a Past Officer's Dinner. He said he would
handle the details of the dinner.
* He also asked about the timing of the Spouse's Tour and said that
would severly hamper his help for Registration. Commons said he would
look into it and see if there was an alternate time.
* Wohlhueter asked why the Kickoff Luncheon would be at the Hyatt,
when all other meals were at the Convention Center. Director of
Marketing Ed Carpenter (Boston Univ.) said at least one meal was
scheduled at the Hyatt since it was the host hotel. Commons said he
would remove the location of the event for now until it was finalized.
VII. Commons said the program committee was considering pulling four to
six of what would be the top table topics and use them in an expanded
format as a type of panel with a longer time frame so there could be
more and easier interaction. He said he would circulate a note to
conference SIDs seeking feedback on subjects for the table topics and
panels.
VIII. Second Vice President Joe Hernandez (Ball State) said he had a
conference call scheduled for Feb. 3 with the Calgary Host Committee to
continue work on finalizing the social schedule.
IX. Third Vice President Doug Dull (Maryland) said the contact person
with Josten's in Canada was gone but Commons gave him another Josten's
contact to help with the production and delivery of the CoSIDA awards
to Calgary.
X. Director of On-Line Services Maxey Parrish (Waco, Texas) added a
link on the CoSIDA website to the Bank of Canada currency converter.
XI. Wohlhueter gave the Treasurer's report. He asked Boclair to forward
the information he had provided to her on CoSIDA's financial situation
to the secretary for the March Digest. He also said he had taken
$50,000 from CoSIDA's investment account to cover expenses during
December and January.
XII. Wohlhueter said Stone Travel had negotiated with several airlines
to offer the lowest published rates possible, including zone fares. He
said he would provide the contact information for the Digest and
website.
XIII. Secretary Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) said the February Digest
was in the mail and that he was collecting information for the March
issue. He also said he was continuing to work with ICS on the on-line
directory and importing the memberships into the directory.
XIV. Carpenter said discussions were continuing with a possible sponsor
for the Academic All-America program.
XV. Under old business, NCAA proposal 88 was discussed and its possible
impact on SIDs.
The call was adjourned.