September 22, 2005
I. President Joe Hernandez (Ball State) gave an update on the status of
the Academic All-America on-line process. He said a blast email would
be sent to the membership on October 3 outlining the process. He said
Mark Beckenbach (Ohio Wesleyan) was working up a simple handbook for
members and would be forwarding it to Hernandez to review.
II. Hernandez said the officers needed to exchange their notebooks and
CDs detailing their duties from the previous year.
III. Hernandez reminded the officers to send thank you letters to the
workshop sponsors.
IV. Hernandez said a few more surveys on the 2005 workshop had been
received and his office was tallying the information. He said he would
have the results next week.
V. Third Vice President John Bianco (Texas) said he had been going
through the information on the awards program.
VI. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter (Boston Univ.) said he would be
following up on a potential sponsor lead for the Academic All-America
Hall of Fame program.
VII. Director of On-Line Services Maxey Parrish (Waco, Texas) gave a
brief update on the CoSIDA website. VIII. Secretary Jeff Hodges (North
Alabama) said the October Digest was going in the mail and that the
CoSIDA Directories were due back from the printer by October 1. He also
discussed the on-line directory updates.
IX. Under Old Business, Hernandez said Wayne Block was working on the
committee restructuring information.
X. There was a brief discussion of the continued violation by some
organizations of CoSIDA’s trademark of Academic All-America. Carpenter
asked that information be posted on the CoSIDA website and printed in
the directory reminding SIDs that only CoSIDA teams can use the term
Academic All-America for its teams and to not publicize other teams as
such.
XI. Hernandez gave an update on the Hurricane Katrina Fund. He said
that eight board members have contributed $1200. He said another
fifty-two members have contributed $4,625, including $500 from ICS and
$500 from Warren Associates. He said that means the organization must
put in $18,000 for the board, and $9,250 to match the members for a
total of $27,250 - or more than half way to the goal of $50,000.
The call was adjourned.