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d) Resolutions Committee Appointments: Bill then appointed Paul Stachowski (as
chair), Melissa Bravo, and Ryan Lins as members of the resolutions committee. All
accepted the appointments.
e) 2006 Weed Contest: Bill announced that DuPont would host the 2006 weed contest at
the Stine-Haskell Research Center in Wilmington, DE. The contest would be held on
August 1, 2006 with July 31 as the travel day. Greg Armel will coordinate the efforts for
DuPont, but will need some help to pull off a successful contest.
f) Meeting Site for 2007: Bill announced that 2007 annual meeting would be held at the
Renaissance Haborplace Hotel in Baltimore on January 2-5, 2007. He pointed out that
NEASHS would meet on their own, but the Mid-Atlantic Pest Council would join us for
our meeting.
g) Other Business: Bill introduced Rich Bonanno, who will be chairing a new strategic
planning committee to assess the future of the NEWSS. Rich made some comments to
the society about the objectives of the committee, which included: what should the make
up of the EC look like?, what are the projected income and revenue over the next 5-10
years?, who are our customers?, where should we be meeting?, what should the
meeting format be?, and what will or should our membership make up look like?. Rich
commented that the membership should expect to hear from the committee during the
first half of the year to get their feedback on some of these and other questions as the
committee formulates its vision. Bill then introduced Lee Van Wychen, who was hired
during 2005 as the new WSSA Director of Science Policy. Bill then asked if there was
any additional new business. Joe Neal proposed that the annual meeting be held on
Jan 7-10 in 2008 since Jan 1 falls on a Tuesday. This proposal is in line with the
NEWSS MOP guidelines.
h) Presentation of the 2006 Executive Committee
The 2006 Executive Committee was presented by President Bill Curran.
President Elect, Renee Keese
Vice President, Jerry Baron
Secretary/Treasurer, Chris Becker
Past President, Tim Dutt
CAST representative, Robert Sweet
Editor, Hilary Sandler
Graduate Student representative, Jacob Barney
Legislative representative, Dan Kunkel
Public relations, Dwight Lingenfelter
Research & Education, Kathie Kalmowitz
Sustaining membership, David Spak
WSSA representative, Toni DiTomasso
i) Adjourn
Jeff Derr moved to close the meeting and Scott Glenn seconded the motion.
The meeting was closed at 6:05 pm.
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