Section Representative Report
Illinois Section of AAPT
October 19, 2002

Curt Hieggelke

The Section Representatives' meeting was held on Sunday evening, August 4, 2002 at Boise State University, Idaho. At the AAPT Summer Meeting, the Section Representatives discuss and may make recommendations to the Executive Board but the Council does not meet.

This meeting lasted about an hour and consisted mainly of routine business such as approving minutes, filling a vacancy on the nominating committee, and hearing reports on AAPT projects (TYC SPIN-UP, PTRA, ComPADRE which is part of the Digital Library, & PHYSTEC).

The main points from this meeting were:

• Requested that the Executive Board meeting highlights be sent out to Representatives before the Council meeting, including proposed locations for future meetings. (For example, the site for the winter 2006 meeting is still open since New Orleans proved to be too expensive.)
• The Executive Office has initiated discussion with the Acoustical Society to meet jointly in Rhode Island in the middle of June 2006. This will be discussed more in Council Meeting in January.
• It was suggested that AAPT send notices to section members for whom they have email addresses.
• A question was asked about how the mission statement document has been used to plan new initiatives and evaluate old ones. They commented that the document is a regular part of Board discussions and that many agenda items are categorized based on the Strategic Plan items.

Future national meetings are scheduled as follows: