Meeting Notes from 6/3/04

Beta Chi Meeting on Mon. September 13^th at 5 p.m.

(executive meeting at 4:30 p.m.)

Committees:

Social (Fundraiser)

Chairpersons: Bridgette Kilbane and Morgan

Officer overseer: Morgan

Induction

Chairperson: Susan Hayes

Officer overseer: Susan

Wellness Committee

Chairpersons: Eva, Faye, and Katie

Officer overseer: Susan

Membership

Chairperson: Julie

Officer overseer: Julie

Alumni

Chairperson: Alli Metz

Officer overseer: Julie

Awards/Scholarship

Chairperson: (none) We need one!

Officer overseer: Matt

Newsletter

Chairperson: Matt

Officer overseer: Matt

Wellness Conference

• Speaker will be Peter Borash and he will speak from 11a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Date set for Saturday Nov. 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Committee needs to contact speaker to get a title, confirm date, and get a biography from him
• Need to contact continuing education to give them the conference title. Katie Campbell and Christine Gibbons will make up the conference brochure.
• We need to find people to run and help with the silent auction.
• At conference, there will be a “call for papers”: breakout sessions with 4 presenters on topics related to conference. Each speaker will present for 30-40 min. each). 2 speakers will present at one time. We need to get people to present.

Money Issues

• We currently have $3458.15 in our fund.

• We will pay the conference speaker $400, and it costs about $600 to run the conference.
• Need to put about $500-$700 into the scholarship fund.

Fundraisers

• A new idea was discussed about doing a “walk” to raise money.
• We would need to find sponsors
• We could make t-shirts
• We could charge a $5 entrance fee for those without a sponsor

Agenda for Next Year

Early Fall:

• Start working early on the Wellness Conference and the Silent Auction.
• Do a “Welcome Back” pizza party orientation
• Start working on the Doctoral Panel
• Get applications in for CSI awards (see more below).

Early Spring:

• Internship Panel
• Induction Ceremony

Volunteer Service

• We discussed our duty to do volunteer work.
• We can look in the Plain Dealer in the Volunteer section, can volunteer at Habitat for Humanity, we mentioned some walks (AIDS, Breast Cancer, etc.)

Awards Committee

• We discussed the various awards we could apply for (Best Chapter, etc.). More info. can be found on the CSI national website.
• Applications are due in Nov.

Ideas for Next Year

• License Exam panel or study groups
• Private Practice/Business speaker
• Doing a leadership binder so that future officers will have some ideas
• When students are eligible to join CSI, we send them out a letter inviting them to apply.