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American Industrial Hygiene Association
Mid-America Local Section

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Meeting Announcement

November 11.

Mid-America AIHA local section meeting

 

Where:


 

Manny's Restaurante Mexicano

207 Southwest Blvd

KCMO 64108

816-474-7696

Directions:

See website for map

http://www.mannyskc.com/location.htm
      

When:
 

Tuesday, November 11

   6:30 pm   Dinner

Speaker:
 

Thomas Pierce, PhD, CIH, DABT

University of Kansas Medical Center

Topics:

Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology in South Africa

Menu: 

Select one:     Combo Platter with beef taco, chalupa, and Manny's chicken burrito

 

                  or  Veggie mexicano which is a large burrito with zucchini,

                       onions, carrots, bell peppers and cheese.

 

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, November 7th with MENU CHOICE

After the reservation deadline, "A reservation made is a reservation paid."

 

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

CMSU SS&T 3rd Annual Mini-Symposium                       October 31, 2003

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

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 (8/29/03)

$ 5,178.01


Revenue (Service Charge Reversal X2)


$ 8.38
$ 8.38

Debits

$ 0.00


Ending Balance (09/30/03)


$ 5,194.77

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CMSU’s Department of Safety Sciences Presents

3rd Annual Mini-Symposium:

Management In Occupational Safety & Health

October 31, 2003

Registration and Agenda

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:

 

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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