Region II meeting, Saturday 12/30/2000

First there was a joint meeting, to vote on the Regionals 2001 bid.

Not attending yet: AGD, ABXi, AGA, OA, DZ, ABD, ADB, AED

49 votes from Region II

Regionals bid passes by unanimous vote.

Meetings split.

Bob Barkhurst took over meeting to run election for Regional Director.  
Craig was the only one nominated, and was elected by unanimous acclimation.

Craig spoke quickly about his plans for the next two years: there have 
been changes in his life over the past year that could affect the level 
he's able to serve over the coming years.  Craig is now a substitute 
schoolteacher, a position he loves immensely.  He moved to Syracuse a year 
ago to be the service manager for an ISP, the job did not work out, he was 
unable to find similar work, so he moved into the educational field, which 
he is loving tremendously.  He's very happy in his field.  He has more time 
to work with us, but not as much income, and he will be going back to 
school.  He will do his level best to do everything that he can to help us, 
he will do everything he can to be as accessible to us as he has for the 
past two years, but working full time and taking 9 credit hours at a state 
college and being regional director will not be an easy task.  He 
appreciates the support we've given him in the past two years and hopes he 
will continue to enjoy that support and hopes that he will be able to serve 
us as well as he has over the past two years.  If we are not happy with 
what he is doing, then we need to communicate to him what we need.

We have worked hard to increase the number of chapters, we have added two 
new chapters in the past two years, theta kappa and alpha epsilon kappa 
chapter.  We have worked hard to try to make the smaller chapters in the 
region smaleer with some success and hopefully we will continue that 
althoiugh I will say that it has not been as successful as I had hoped: 
there were obstacles, there will continue to be obnstacles and we will 
continue to work through them.

We have tried to increas attendance at sectional conferences and other 
leadership conferences.  We've done leadership training for our staff 
volunteers.  We've seen positive changes over the past two years and hopes 
we continue to see positive changes over the next two years. 

AWARDS

Handed out awards Ed Richter read off in a previous regional meeting.

H. Roe Bartle Chapter Award for outstanding achievement in chapter programs
Epsilon Zeta (1998-99) Nu Delta (1998-99), Nu Delta, Delta Zeta, Xi Lambda,
Alpha Gamma Iota, Chi Pi, Sigma Nu,

Joe Scanlon Membership Award:
Kappa Phi, Xi Lambda, Omicron Alpha

More awards forthcoming after the Regional Awards person, comes back from 
Region VI meeting.

Craig recognized the delegates who served on committees.

Blondie presented awards:
Service Award - Phi
Certificate of Recognition for Blood Battle - Iota Kappa
Certificate of Recognition for Web Watcher  - Nu Delta

Choir Practice - 6:15 in ballroom at 6:15

Life Membership contest - as of 11/30/2000, there were 80 LM sold, as of 
yesterday, there were 11 memberships, we're 9 short of the goal for 
tomorrow!  5 people spoke up that they got theirs today!

Contest - Nationals for FREE: 
Section 88: Chris Calabrese, EZ
Section 89: Neffi Smith, Epsilon Gamma
Section 90: Deb Lowrey, Iota Kappa
Section 91: Aubrie Sciamanna, Omicron Alpha
Section 92: Amanda Gilbert, Omicron Upsilon

Aasha Arrives for Regional Awards!

Man Mile - 3rd-MO 2420, 2nd-AB 2786, 1st-EZ 3029
Gang's All Here - 3rd-EZ 56.5%, 2nd-AGI 61.1%, 1st-MO & NuDelta 71.4%
Region II Warren C. Weidman Dedication Award - Cindy Smith Corbett
Region II DSK - Craig Muckle