Eta Kappa Nu Minutes

Tuesday, September 12, 1995

Members' meeting

Roll taken

Minutes from Officers' meeting on Tuesday, August 29, read by Mark Miller

Treasurer's Report presented by Clint Hollis

Old Business

• Need to get bents: Corresponding Secretary Bill Burgess needs to send a letter to the University of Alabama for bents
• Need fund raiser soon
• Bulletin board by IEEE board is in progress
• Tutoring started -- each member needs to sign up
• 17 eligible initiates -- we have a list of initiates w/ their classes
• Vice President will handle all initiation responsibilities
• Pledge activities: 1) Prepare bent
• 2) Clean HKN bent outside Nethken Hall
• 3) Take HKN test
• Notification to initiates' parents -- We will send letters to parents of initiates. This means we need to revise the information sheet that the initiates fill out to include their parents' names and addresses as well as their home newspapers' names and phone numbers.
• Announcement of initiates -- We will put announcement for initiates in Tech Talk and local paper. We will also try to put announcements in initiates' home newspapers.
• Project Managers: 1) Spencer Williams
• 2) Bill Burgess
• Date for meeting initiates -- October 3 at 7:00 pm (the next scheduled meeting) is the tentative date for having a mixer with the initiates. Plans: Have pizza at the meeting and invite initiates to attend.
• Project Manager: Vincent Yee
• Initiates' test -- The initiates' test is scheduled for October 10. The initiation will be held on October 17. The initiation meeting will also serve as the last HKN meeting for the quarter.
• We need to register last spring's initiates and get their certificates.

New Business

• HKN Meetings -- first Tuesday of each month, signs will be up
• Faculty Advisor -- Claude J. Irby and Mickey D. Cox are willing
• Nominations: Cox (second)
• Irby (second)
• Cowling
• Motion for Co-Advisors -- Discussions ended in motion failing
• Vote for Faculty Advisor -- Irby - 5 votes, Cox - 4 votes
• Claude J. Irby is the new HKN Faculty Advisor
• New Vice President -- Wes was removed as VP (President's decision, supported by officers)
• Graduate students can hold offices
• Role of Vice President read by President
• Nominations for VP: Glenn Moffett - declined
• Andrew Wilkinson
• Clint Hollis - declined
• Andrew Wilkinson is the new HKN Vice President
• Projects -- service project, social function, and fund raiser each quarter
• Service project ideas
• Roemer -- sand blast and paint rotors
• Emory -- sand blast and paint motors
• Dave -- clean/paint bathrooms
• Andrew -- canned food drive for Thanksgiving
• Bill -- canned food drive and sand blast motors
• Sand blasting and painting on hold until next meeting
• Project Manager for sand blasting/painting: Glenn Moffett
• Project Manager for food drive: Spencer Williams
• Social function ideas
• Bowling, swimming, cookout
• Motion -- have mixer and party for initiates, no extra social functions
• Project Manager: Vincent Yee
• Fund Raiser ideas
• Competitions -- volleyball, etc.; prize for winner
• Possible HKN/IEEE co-sponsored competition
• Project Managers: Andrew Wilkinson and Bill Burgess
• Trip to DeGray Lake on a weekend -- not enough support; possibly in spring
• HKN Home Page -- Put minutes, announcements, projects, etc., on home page. We need to find a permanent home for our home page.
• Resumes for faculty -- We need to keep a database of our resumes available to the faculty. Project Manager: Dave Rouch
• T-Shirts -- Planned for the beginning of the spring quarter. The shirts should have an EE theme. We may sponsor a contest in the Art Department for the best design for a $50 reward. Project Managers: Dave Rouch and Clint Hollis
• National has requested that we submit outstanding juniors for a scholarship contest. Dave will talk to Dr. Irby for the best candidates.
• Tutoring is going well. We need people to sign up for times.