Academy of Fellows - June 1998 Meeting Minutes

Breakfast Business Meeting and Welcome for New ASEE Fellows

Aspen Room-Sheraton Seattle Hotel
7-8:15 a.m.
Wednesday, July 1, 1998

Attendance: Name-Organization-             

1. Bill LeBold - Purdue
2. Bob Page - Texas A&M -
3. Leighton E. Sissom-Sissom & Assocates
4. John Weese - Texas A&M
5. Anthony L. Tilmans - Southern Poly
6. Gerald J. Thuesen, Georgia Tech
7. Alfred C. Ingersoll, UCLA(ret)
8. Mary Cecile Neville, ASEE Headquarters
9. Lyle Feisel, SUNY-Binghamton -
10. Edwin C. Jones, Jr., Iowa State Univ.
11. Art Murphy, DuPont -
12. Alfred Moye', Hewlett-Packard
13. Deran Hanesian - New Jersey Inst of Tech
14. Angelo J. Perna, NJIT
15. Frank E. Burris, UCLA Extension
16. Bob Anderson, Iowa State
17. Ronald Haden, Texas A&M
18. Matibub Uddin, Trinity University
19. Ed Ernst
20. Richard Felder, N.C.State Univ.
21. Karl Smith, University of Minnesota
22. J.Ray Bowen, University of Washington
23. Art Murphy-DuPont
24. Dick Culver, SUNY-Binghampton
25. Bill Cooper, Okla. State
26. Lewis Mayfield
27. Eleanor Baum, The Cooper Union
28. Don Kirk. San Jose State University
29. Jim Stice, Univ. of Texas-Austin
30. George Dieter, U. of Maryland
31. Chris Przireybel, Clemson University
32. Glenn Kriegel, VPI
33. Irene Peden, University of Washington
34. Cary Fisher, USAF Academy
35. Fred Emshousen, PurdueUniversity.
36. Steve Cheshier, Southern Polytechnic St.
37. Larry Wolf, Oregon Institute Of Technology-
38. E.P. Segner Jr. University of Alabama, Birmingham

Agenda:

1. Call to Order by the Chair Bob Page at 7:20 a.m.
    
2. Circulation of "sign-in" sheet by Vice Chair Bill LeBold
    
3. Approval of Minutes from the June 18, 1997, Fellows Breakfast Business meeting of   the Academy of Fellows that were distributed by mail and the Internet was requested.. Moved. seconded and approved by voice vote.
    
4. New Members were introduced by Bob Page and warmly welcomed:
   Eleanor Baum, J. Ray Bowen, Bill L. Cooper, Fred W. Emshousen, Donald E. Kirk, L. Glenn Kraige, Karl Smith, and Mahbub Uddin. Carl Zorowski was also elected a new ASEE Fellow, but was unable to attend the Fellows Breakfast meeting.
    
5. Bob Page asked for comments on the ASEE Academy of Fellows Newsletter. General consensus was that it should be continued.
    
6. Bob Page asked for Comments on the ASEE academy of Fellows -World Wide Web home page. Bill Le Bold reported that in the future the homepage would be maintained by the ASEE Webmaster. However, the copy would be sent by the Vice Chair to the ASEE webmaster and the ASEE Headquarters staff member who was responsible for the Academy of Fellows, (Mary Cecile Neville)
   * EdNote: (Effective 1999 Felicia Guglielmi will be our ASSEE Headquarters staff representative )
    
7. Mary Neville, ASEE Headquarters reviewed the actions of this year's Fellow Awards Committee. Bob Page noted that there was a continued effort to recommend industrial members as ASEE Fellows.
    
8. The chair asked for comments on any of the action items. Bill LeBold noted that the Technical Session: ASEE Nostalgia was well received with about 20 attending. Larry Grayson had put together the combination video and slide show, but was unable to present the material because of a heart problem from which he is rapidly recovering. Bob Page did a superb job in presenting the wonderful nostalgic material Larry had collected. Larry Burris presented a copy of the "Salute to Joe" Biedenbach which was prepared for the 1991 CIEC reception , nine months after Joe's death. A copy is appended to these minutes.
    
9. The Chair Bob Page noted that the Chair of the Nominating Committee, George Burnet was unable to attend. However, the Nominating Committee had sent him the following nominations:
   Chair: Bill LeBold
   Vice Chair and Secretary: Larry Wolf
   The chair asked if there were any other nominations. A motion was made and seconded that nominations be closed and the slate be elected by voice vote. The motion carried and the new officers elected.
    
10. The Chair Bob Page thanked the Fellows for the opportunity to have served and wished the new officers well. The Chair -Elect Bill LeBold thanked Bob for his warm and diligent service. Bill also noted the at he had received letters from Leighton Collins and Vince Haneman regretting that they could not attend this year's ASEE Annual Conference.
    
     
11. The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 am.