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.


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.


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).



• Motion: We move to continue with the Triennial Award for Outstanding Chapter funded in the amount of $250.



• Motion: We move to continue to support the relocation, installation, or reactivation of chapters of Iota Sigma Pi with a $250 seed grant.



• 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


• 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.



• 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.


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.


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.“


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

Documents

Iota Sigma Pi 30 th Triennial Convention June 23 – 26, 2011 Cleveland, OH