American Industrial Hygiene Association Mid-America Local Section

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Meeting Announcement

January 20, 2004.

Mid-America AIHA local section meeting

Where:	Cascone's Italian Restaurant 3737 North Oak KCMO 64116 816-454-7977
Directions:	East side of North Oak, North of Waterworks Park
When:	Tuesday, January 20 6:00 pm Social 6:30 pm Dinner
Speaker:	Dave Huyett Honeywell FM&T
Topics:	Six Sigma Applications in Safety and Health
Menu:	Pasta buffet with lasagna, fettuccini pasta with alfredo, marinara, and meat sauce, salad, bread, and spumoni sundae
Cost:	Members: $20 Non-members: $25
Reservations:	Contact Vicki Bender via email at vbender@kcp.com or by telephone at 816-997-4685 by noon on Friday, January 16 After the reservation deadline, "A reservation made is a reservation paid."

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

February 10, 2004   Mid-America AIHA Meeting   Location:TBA
Field Implications of Using Extractive FTIR Spectrometry to
Collect Personal Exposure Data
Speaker: Matthew Nunnally, 3M Specialty Materials Manufacturing Division


February 20, 2004   Tour of EPA laboratories

February 8-11, 2004 Health Physics Society Mid-Year Topical Symposium

PRESIDENT’S CORNER:

President’s Message

Thank you for this opportunity to serve as the President of the Mid American Local Section. Last year was an educational year for me as Vice-President. The AIHA Leadership Workshop was a wonderful experience; I learned many things about our association and working effectively with volunteers.

We should all be proud to be a part of a strong and energetic local section. Although we are not as large or as wealthy as other sections, our financial situation is secure due to the very low cost of operating our organization. Geoff Smith has done an outstanding job of managing our financial accounts, and his records have been reviewed by several members of our section. Member communications is a major budget expense for every section, but our expense in this area is minimal due to the extraordinary work of Vicki Bender. Her diligence in maintaining the web page and utilizing email for member communications allows our section to keep our expenses very low. Last year she prepared and published, with the assistance of Joe Graf, the much appreciated Membership Directory.

Our section is also very fortunate to have an active pool of members willing to take on leadership responsibility and our past presidents continue to provide guidance and support for our section. Eric Wenger will remain as active in the leadership of this organization as Lance Erickson, and Alan Iske have throughout the last 5 years. Unlike many other sections we do not have to recycle the same President’s over and over again. We have an entire section composed of past presidents and future presidents.

We are also an outstanding local section as exemplified by the student section we sponsor, the Association of Student Industrial Hygienists (ASIH) at CMSU. ASIH is the recipient of the AIHA Outstanding Student Section of the Year Award for 2003. Al Stewart gives a great deal of his time and energy to liaison between the local section and the student section, assuring a strong connection. John Zey and Larry Ferguson not only attend almost every section meeting, they assure that students will also have the same opportunity. We are enriched by the involvement of students and faculty in our organization.

Wes Cochran is putting together an interesting and exciting year of technical programs for your professional development. I hope that you will be able to attend all of them and that you will invite your colleagues, coworkers and professionals associates to attend. Our section is dynamic and together we can have a great year.

Submitted by: Dianna Havner Bryant, CIH CSP

September 1, 2003

TREASURER'S REPORT

October 2003 TREASURER'S REPORT
Geoff Smith

Beginning Balance (10/01/03)	$ 5,194.77
Revenue (Sept mtg)	$ 420.00
Debits (Oct. mtg)	$ 450.03
Ending Balance (10/31/03)	$ 5,164.74

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Health Physics Society Mid-Year Topical Symposium
February 8-11, 2004 in Augusta, Georgia.
Topic "Air Monitoring and Internal Dosimetry."
Tentative categories are:
Workplace/Personal Air Monitoring, Effluent Air Monitoring, Environmental Air Monitoring, Internal Dosimetry Correlation to Air Monitoring, and Air Monitoring for Homeland Security.
For more details see the HPS website under News and Events
(conferences) The website URL is  http://www.hps.org

Information provided by:
Susan T. Masih, Health Physicist, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Office of Chemical, Biological and Radiation Safety
FAX: (816)235-6559  Pager: (816) 435-9834
Phone: (816) 235-5289  Email: masihs@umkc.edu "

INFORMATION:

   Please see the new job postings.                       

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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