Minutes January 19, 2008 Meeting

Greater St. Louis Nintey Nines
Minutes of the meeting of Saturday, January 19, 2008
at the Busch Student Center, SLU, Ninety-Nines booth at the MACTS

Present at the meeting: Teresa Camp, Gussie Freese, Delia Greer, Ann Mongiovi, Jean Murry, Martha Norman, Jan Pocock, Sally Siebe, Libby Yunger.

The meeting was called to order at 2 pm by chairman, Sally Siebe. Libby Yunger read the minutes and they were accepted as written. Martha Norman read the treasurers report and it was accepted.

We raffled two baskets of goodies at the MACTS and earned approximately $160 for the chapter. Jan Pocock moved that we put the money from the raffle into the Del Scharr Scholarship fund, Gussie Freese seconded the motion. The motion was approved.

Sally announced that the deadline for submission of articles for the April Waypoint is the end of March. The type of stories she is looking for expand on the chapter quarterly reports. Suggestions for stories include a story with pictures of our library display, Martha might write on NIFA, Teresa might right on the Air Race Classic or on getting a seaplane rating, Jean might write on the exhibit at the MO History Museum, Vivian might write on ballooning or her photography, Anne might write on soaring, and Libby might write on flying the T-6. Deadline for the July issue is the end of June. Submissions should be made to Sally Siebe.

The new North Central section website is www.ncs99s.org. Members will need to enter a user name and password to enter the members’ only section. The Waypoint and registration forms for NC Section events will be available on this website.

The library exhibit is at the Mid-County Library in Clayton in January. Kayleen Amerson is taking the exhibit to Mascoutah IL in February. We need to make an inventory of everything that is in the library exhibit. We also need to decide whether we are going to keep the exhibit going beyond December 2008.

Libby Yunger is looking for a committee to oversee organizing everything for painting a compass rose at Greenville Airport this Spring. Ann Mongiovi and Martha Norman offered to help, though Martha would be unable to attend planning meetings.

Delia Greer, Jean Murry, and Jan Pocock were named to the Nominating Committee. Jean proposed that we keep the same slate of officers for next year. Delia seconded the proposal and it was approved.

The deadline for nominations for the Forest of Friendship is April 15. This year’s theme is security and solice in flight.

The Scott Airshow will feature the Thunderbirds this year. We can put up an information table at Scott to attract new members, but we cannot sell anything. No decision was made concerning whether we would participate.

Jan Pocock reported that Kim Atkins accepted an assignment in Italy beginning the end of January and would be there for at least a year.

Jean Murry will try to arrange a February meeting at the State Police Hangar at Spirit Airport. The March meeting will be in conjunction with a Girl Scout badge program at the GSL Air & Space Museum.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:20 pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Libby Yunger
Secretary