American Industrial Hygiene Association Mid-America Local Section

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Meeting Announcement

Date:     December 6, 2002

Place:       Harley Davidson
                11401 N Congress
Kansas City, MO

Time:        8:45 AM

Tour:    One hour tour of Harley Davidson production plant

Special Instructions:

Meet at the Visitor's Center at 8:45 AM

Wear fully enclosed shoes
No cameras
No bags, knapsacks, etc.
Government issued ID required (i.e. Driver's license)

Directions: See Harley Davidson website for directions

                  and a map. Click on “Tour Schedule and Map”

http://www.harley-davidson.com/CO/FTY/en/kansascity.asp?bmLocale=en_US

Cost:        No Cost. Please bring non-perishable food donation for charity.

Reservations:    For reservations, please contact: Vicki Bender by email vbender@kcp.com Phone: 816-997-4685.

All reservations must be received by 5 pm on Thursday, December 5.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Please mark your calendars for the following dates and times:

February 10, 2003, 6:00 pm dinner
Linda Hall Library Auditorium
5100 Cherry, Kansas City, MO
Dr. Allen J. Parmet will speak on “Clincical Bronchiolitis Obliterans at a Microwave Popcorn Factory”

March 4, 2003, 11:30 am lunch
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Richard Massoth, PhD, Diagnostic Medical Physicist, certified by the ABR (American Board of Radiology) in Diagnostic Radiological Physics., will speak on “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Safety”

April 7, 2003, 6:30 pm dinner
ASIH presentation

PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Eric Wenger, CIH

September 2002

I wish to extend my "official" congratulations to Dianna Bryant, Vicki Bender, and Geoff Smith on being selected by their peers to lead and represent our local AIHA section! Your election shows that our membership has placed their confidence in you to guide our organization into the future. Your new officer duties began May 1st, and continue through April 30^th for the 2002-2003 administrative year.

Being an officer of a volunteer organization can sometimes be challenging and there are no monetary rewards. As I learned in the National AIHA leadership-training seminar last winter, volunteer organizations must emphasize appreciation and they must strive to provide a sense of meaningful accomplishment to those who volunteer their time. I hope that we can remember to emphasize this attitude for each other as well as for those we recruit for our section's committees and other volunteer work.

We say farewell to Allen Iske who has initiated several practices that I plan to continue, including convening an executive officers' planning session prior to each scheduled local section meeting. Allen has also been very diligent in keeping the officers interconnected through e-mail, which I intend to continue. I think that communicating and being well organized are keys to having a successful local section. Allen Iske and Lance Erickson have certainly done an excellent job of teaching me these lessons.

Fortunately, Lance continues with us in his new role as "experienced advisor" to help guide us in the overall direction of our section. Lance is a hard worker, has imagination and foresight, and is an invaluable resource for our section. I know that I will be seeking his reasoned advise often and I hope that others in our section will too.

After two years as secretary, Scott has kindly accepted to continue by helping our new secretary, Vicki Bender, in managing our section's web site. At this Spring’s Conference, our web-site received the National AIHA award and $100.00 for the best local web-site out of all other sections in our membership size category! This reflects the past work of Janelle Thelen, Nick Huser, Chris Warholic, and Scott Cogbill. Having Scott continue with the web site is a major "plus" for our section as it will allow Vicki to focus her efforts in tackling the other tasks as secretary. Thank you Scott for your willingness to continue helping in such a vital role.

Geoff's return as Treasurer will definitely provide added stability. Geoff has been very dedicated to our section and has done a great job of keeping our books. Thanks for your work this past year.

Thank you to all who have served this past year in the furtherance of the Industrial Hygiene profession.

I look forward to working with Dianna and Vicki and I'm sure they will do wonderfully in their new roles. We will seek leaders for our committees and our officers will need to contact volunteers.

My primary goal for the year is to increase our membership. Key to this goal is to provide practical advantages for Industrial Hygienists in being a local section member. I will look forward to serving as your president this year.

TREASURER'S REPORT
Geoff Smith, CIH

Beginning Balance (8/31/02) $ 4107.71

Revenue (Interest) $       2.62
(Sept. Mtg. & Dues payments) $   825.00

Expenses (Sept Mtg. payments) $    600.00


Ending Balance (9/30/02) $ 4335.33

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Attend an interesting conference? Read some interesting news which would be of interest to others? Come across any humorous stories? Know of any job openings? Send them to Vicki Bender vbender@kcp.com for publication in the AIHA Mid-America Section Newsletter.

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