Mensa Logo Vice Sheet - July 2001
by Sallie Banko, Region 2 RVC

I'm back from the AG, and boy, am I tired! Some of you may know/remember Pat Olver... she was hospitality chair this year, which means I was drafted into helping all I could. And then George Cooper asked about security.... And then there was this AMC meeting I had to go to....

I know you're all interested in the awards, so here they are for our region:

Publications Recognition Awards
Artwork: "Middletown Valley at Daybreak" Larissa Dillin, M-Anation 1/01, Maryland Mensa

CultureQuest©
Congratulations to the Gordian Nots from MWM! They managed to beat out all the others to take first place. Other winners in the region include Tsunami I of Tidewater Mensa in twelfth place and Culture Vultures from Central New Jersey Mensa in 19th.

A complete listing of all winners can be found on the American Mensa's website: http://www.us.mensa.org/best_of/overview.php3

Speaking of interesting connections and sites, David Neylon has set up a Yahoo Group geared toward helping LocSecs across the country, and possibly around the world, communicate with each other. He asked that I pass on the URL to LocSecs:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locsec or email: locsec-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

And don't forget to check out the region 2 website: http://www.region2.us.mensa.org

The following is recap of motions and information from the Annual Business and AMC meetings, so if you are inclined to fall asleep over the serious stuff, skip the rest of this report.....

The most important item on the agenda of the Business Meeting was a presentation of the annual financial report. Please be aware that copies of these are available from the national office upon request. It was also noted that our membership numbers continue to rise, while the average age is dropping. There were no motions brought forth at this meeting.

And now for the first meeting of the new AMC: The four nationally appointed officers are:

I had voiced objections to the wording presented in many of the proposed motions that involved committees. I believe the inclusion of the words "after consultation with the AMC Chairman and the Committee's AMC liaison" were unnecessary and smacked of micromanaging, and undermined the authority given to a committee chair. It is my belief that when a person is assigned to chair a committee, we should have enough faith in that person to appoint people to the committee that would optimize the workings of said committee. An ASIE should not have to spell out the AMC chair and liaison need to be consulted. Unfortunately Betsy Burke (RVC #1) was the only one who agreed with me. There was also a motion passed that automatically changes all appropriate ASIEs accordingly: "all committee chairs who appoint their own committee members shall do so after consultation with the AMC Chairman and the committee's AMC Liaison....." If this seems confusing, or you want to hear more of my rantings... I mean reasoning.... please feel free to contact me.

MERF is planning on creating a "Region11" for scholarship purposes. It would include those applicants from outside the US who will be studying in the US.

New wording is to be added to the minimum bylaws, defining the who and how of proctor/testing coordinator and SIGHT Coordinator.

The SIGHT Policy that was proposed for adoption was withdrawn, with more work/clarification needed before being accepted.

This is by no means a complete report on all that took place or all that was voted on during the meeting. We again voted to accept the minutes via e-mail vote, so the official minutes should be available in about 6-8 weeks.

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