Minutes

June 4, 2009

Meeting was called to order by Vice President Frank Padula at 10:00 a.m... 

Attendance:  Jessica Barker, Marilyn Blatt, Jan Briere, Tony Coburn, Julie Cooper, Marge DeBenedetto, Marilyn Donnelly, Julia Fogel, David Glowdoski, Ed Glynn, Kathy Hale, Bob Nelson, Frank Padula, Brian Perry, Joan Pomeroy, David Printz, Emory Reese, Helen Reese, John Rittenberg, John Szedon, Jack Thompson, Ann Tilly, Sally White and Diane Worden.

Minutes:  A motion to approve the minutes as published on the web site was made by John Rittenberg and seconded by Kathy Hale.  Motion carried.

President’s Report:  Jerry Moore is out for cataract surgery.

Treasurer’s Report:  Paid students for summer will be around 66-70.  The final report has not been completed.  Our cash position higher than normal due to Treasurer being out for surgery and unable to attend to duties.  Spring student fees were posted late.  Payments still due to Senior Net National and Roswell City.

Curriculum Coordinator:  Ann gave brief description of planned revisions to existing Works Course.  She is to be coordinator.  Brian Perry praised Julia Fogel’s work on Power Point manual.

Technology:  George Fuller   Server to be installed on June 10-12.  Software being installed and should be available in next few weeks.  The change will be invisible to users.  He expects glitches with Vista as all machines not set up for Vista.  He has not been able to duplicate a reported glitch between Works and Word.  Frank Padula stated there were no problems encountered during spring Word class.

Manual Coordinator:  George Fuller reported manuals are being printed now and will be in Tuesday.

Lab Report/Disks and Badges: Bob Nelson reported he is working on class CD’s or Flash Drives as needed.  Fundamentals and Works will continue to use CD’s. as students should learn to burn CDs.  Lab attendance was low but had plenty of coaches to help. 

Instructor/Coach Staffing Coordinator:  Jack Thompson reported coaches needed for the Digital Camera class.  He encourages the instructors to recruit their own staff.  He continues to remind volunteers that help is needed in many other classes. 

Publicity:  Julie Cooper reported we currently have ad in local paper.  A radio ad is being prepared.  The script has been written.  The GPB participation will be scaled back to 8 people.  They are working on new Senior Net bulletin board presentation and need pictures of classes in progress.  They sent 465 mailings to previous students.  Only 23 were returned as undeliverable.  Frank suggested they use the Ramblers’ mailing list.  Sally White commented our story is about seniors who are computer experts teaching other seniors who are not.  She volunteered to help Publicity Committee and her offer was accepted.  An easel is needed which Jessica Barker will provide and help with location.

Internet and Email: Frank Padula reported a new manual is being worked on by Bill Buttrick.

Quicken:  Howard Goldmacher presented revised course in spring.  There were favorable reviews.

Microsoft Word:  Frank Padula reported 2007 to be taught in fall and course material is ready to go.  John Rittenberg and Ann Tilly volunteered to coach.  Frank is making poster for bulletin board.

Memoirs Workshop:  Tony Cobourn reported this class will be held in the evening in the fall quarter.  The same 3 coaches will help.

Photoshop Elements:  Emory Reese is ordering manuals for summer class.  There are 3 students signed up for summer and class will be cancelled if there are less than five.  He will be making photos of volunteers after this meeting and some photos currently posted will be rotated off the wall. Emory showed a newsletter he received from Gwinnet Senior Net.  He will ask the sender to add others to mailing lists if anyone is interested.

Picasa will be taught in fall by former Elements student, Maury Foreman.  An Advanced Photo Elements will be taught by David Glowdowski.

Power Point:  Brian Perry reported this was to be 6 week course and he is now stretching it to 8 with 4 hours instruction and 4 hours review.  Power Point slides to be duplicated and printed and given to students.  He would like help in deciding how to get these printed.

Typing and Keyboarding:  Ann Tilly is ready to teach.

Other business:  John Rittenberg reported SEL is discontinuing computer classes. We should be recruiting staff for Senior Net.  Publicity should talk to Dick Higgins.

A motion to adjourn was made by John Rittenburg and seconded by Joan Pomeroy.  The meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.

Vice President Frank Padula immediately called the Executive Committee meeting to order.  There being no further business to discuss, a motion to adjourn was made by John Rittenberg and seconded by Jack Thompson.  Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Helen Reese

Secretary