Iota Sigma Pi 30 th Triennial Convention June 23 – 26, 2011 Cleveland, OH.
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Transcript of Iota Sigma Pi 30 th Triennial Convention June 23 – 26, 2011 Cleveland, OH.
Iota Sigma Pi30th Triennial Convention
June 23 – 26, 2011Cleveland, OH
Hostess Chapter: Fluorine
Friday, June 24, 2011 Morning Session
• Kathryn Louie, National President, calls the convention to order
• Roll Call (28 voting delegates plus National Council)
• National Council Reports• Chapter Reports
President Kathryn Louie
Vice President QuynhGiao Nguyen
Secretary Jie Huang
Treasurer Margaret Workman
Editor Ajitha Devarajan
Historian Susan Marine
Records Chair Nancy Hopkins
Coordinator of Members-at-Large
Karen Knaus
Director for Professional Awards
Sara Paisner
Director for Student Awards
Kathryn Thomasson
Immediate Past President
Janet Clark
Coordinator of Initiates and Supplies
Reiko Simmons
Webmaster Christine Hermann
National Council
DelegatesArgentum Christine Hermann
Aurum Iodide Darlene Florence
Aurum Iodide Jennifer Trevor
Chlorine Anne Taylor
Cobalt Lisa Savin
Einsteinium Rita Rhodes
Fluorine Samina Azad
Fluorine Theresa Nawalaniec
Hydrogen Piper Klemm
Lanthanum Jill Granger
MAL Gail Blaustein
MAL Donna Iannotti
Neptunium Mamie Moy
Plutonium Ellen Matson
Radium Janet Marshall
Tellurium Amy Bonaparte
Luncheon and Panel Discussion: Centennial Award for Excellence in Teaching
Winners Susan Marine (2008), Debra D. Dolliver (2010) and Lisa N. Gentile (2011)
Awards Banquet and Memorial Service 2011 Iota Sigma Pi National Honorary Member Award,
Dr. Susan Kauzlarich “Zintl Compounds: From Thermoelectric Materials to Multimodal Nanoparticles”.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
• Committee Reports
Budget and Finance Committee
• Motion: We move that the annual dues for Student Members be raised by $5 from the current $15 to $20. The new breakdown of the dues will be $8 for operating expenses and $7 for convention and $5 for rebates.
• Passed: Unanimously
Budget and Finance Committee
• Motion: We move that annual dues for Regular Members be raised by $5 from the current $50 to $55. New breakdown of dues will be $21.00 for operating expenses, $21 convention and $13 for rebates.
• Passed: Unanimously
Membership Communications Committee
• Motion : We move that Iota Sigma Pi pays for email accounts for National Council officers and investigate email accounts within the hosting domain.
• Passed: Unanimously
Chapter Program Development Committee
• Motion: The committee moves to continue the mini-grant program to provide up to$250 to a maximum of 10 chapters per triennium with only one grant awarded per chapter per triennium. The mini-grant can be used to support special projects, programs, or events of the chapter (excluding routine chapter events).
• Passed: Unanimously
Chapter Program Development Committee
• Motion: We move to continue with the Triennial Award for Outstanding Chapter funded in the amount of $250.
• Passed: Unanimously
Chapter Program Development Committee
• Motion: We move to continue to support the relocation, installation, or reactivation of chapters of Iota Sigma Pi with a $250 seed grant.
• Passed: Unanimously
Chapter Program Development Committee
• Motion: The National Editor will feature a chapter in at least one issue per year of the Iotan, with outreach and activities within that organization highlighted.
• Passed: 25 votes in favor, 1 opposed, 1 abstention
Chapter Program Development Committee
• Motion: We move the National Vice President will send out an annual roster with e-mail addresses of current chapter officers to all other current chapter officers to encourage collaboration amongst chapters.
• Passed: 20 votes in favor, 1 opposed, 6 abstention
Chapter Program Development Committee
• Motion: We move the National Historian write up biographies of the women who have endowed named awards and the Webmaster will post these biographies on the National Website.
• Passed: Unanimously
Long Range Planning Committee
• Motion: We move that any member who recruits 2 or more new members in the same year will be recognized in the Iotan.
• Passed: 13 votes in favor, 7 opposed; 6 abstentions
Long Range Planning Committee
• Motion: We move that the term limits for Webmaster and Coordinator of Initiates and Supplies be limited to 2 successive terms in the same office. In the Constitution and Bylaws, Article VI Section 6 Limits of Terms of Office the lines for Webmaster and Coordinator of Initiates and Supplies be deleted.
• Passed: 13 votes in favor, 9 opposed, 2 abstention
Awards Committee• Motion: To change the description of the Centennial Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching eligibility requirement in the Rules and Regulations (Part G, Article V, section 2):
"The Award is given to a female educator for excellence in teaching chemistry or a chemistry-related discipline at an institution of higher learning who either (a) holds a teaching position at an institution that does not have a graduate program in her department or (b) holds a teaching position that is for teaching undergraduates > 75% of her time at an institution that does have a graduate program in her department.“
• Passed: Unanimously
Outstanding Chapter of the Triennium
Aurum Iodide (AuI)
Election of new National CouncilPresident Margaret Workman
Vice President QuynhGiao Nguyen
Secretary Anne Taylor
Treasurer Kathryn Thomasson
Editor Michelle Ward Muscatello
Historian Susan Marine
Records Chair Janet Marshall
Coordinator of Members-at-Large
Gail Blaustein
Director for Student Awards
Jill Granger
Director for Professional Awards
Nancy Hopkins
Coordinator of Initiates & Supplies
Reiko Simmons
Webmaster Chris Hermann
Luncheon and Violet Diller Award for Professional Excellence Presentation
Dr. Gillian Eggleston
Sunday, June 26, 2011
• Committee Reports, continued• New Business• Closing of the Convention