UCI  EMERITAE/I  ASSOCIATION  MINUTES

MEETING:   MARCH  1, 2004

 

 

 

            Present           Eldon Foltz, Sam McCulloch, Ron Miller, Kivie Moldave, Bob Montgomery,

                                    Lorie Reed, John Swett, Jerry Tobis and Bobbie Brown.

 

 

 

            In the absence of the chair, Lyman Porter, the meeting was called to order by Vice Chair,

            Kivie Moldave at 9:19 am.

     

 

 

I.   Minutes of the February meeting:  The minutes of the February meeting were approved as mailed and distributed.

 

II. Treasurer's Report:  Lorie Reed reported  that just over 100 of our members have paid dues (that's  approximately one third of our annual budget). The EVC's contribution is usually about one third of the annual budget and is used primarily for staff salary. Staff support is usually about 45% of the budget. We have approximately $1300 of outstanding debts, plus the airplane travel fare for attendance at CUCEA may be an upcoming major expense other than programs and staff and mailings.   Reed cautioned that over the last several years we have been spending more than our revenues, and thus we should probably not subsidize future programs beyond the one to which we are already committed.   Reed distributed a four page budget overview.

 

III.   Program Committee Report:  John Swett reported that thus far only eleven checks have been received for the March 18th luncheon at which Professor Gregory Benford will speak.  E-mail reminders are to be sent. Swett has not yet arranged a speaker for the annual meeting in June, but hopes to invite Richard Frank for the first meeting in the fall.

 

IV.  Newsletter Editor's Report:  Bob Montgomery stated Karl Hufbauer's description of how he became a sculptor is to be in the next Newsletter which is to be published  in May.  He expressed concern for the size of the Newsletter lest it result in excessive postal costs. Eldon Foltz may submit an article concerning his research regarding non-biological, non-medical understanding of the lack of damage to the brain from the pulsatile expansion with each heartbeat yet damage from trauma because of noncompressibility of the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid.

 

V.  Retiree's Committee Report:   Bobbie Brown  reported in the absence of Dennis Clark (who has unfortunately been  ill) that the Retiree's Association has only 150 paid members.  The requested dues are $14.  The dues to CUCRA have been increased from fifty cents to one dollar per paid member. This past year the retiree's Association gave a $1000 scholarship to an undergraduate, and a $1000 scholarship to a graduate student. Unless substantial revenues are generated, not only are future scholarships unlikely, but the future of the Retiree's Association is uncertain: dissolution is a possibility. This despite the fact that recent functions (an excellent speaker and a bus filled to attend the plays The Producers and The Lion King).  Brown reported that Clark has resigned his position as chair, and she will perform as acting chair until a new chairperson is in place.

 

VI.  Award Committee Report:   Jerry Tobis provided copies of the draft of a proposal for the Mentoring Award which he had submitted to Abel Klein, Chair of the Academic Senate, as recommended by Masayasu Nomura.  Nomura, Chair of the Senate's Award Committee had told Tobis he believed his committee's responsibility was simply to recommend possible award recipients, and not to propose new awards. Should there be agreement with the Senate to establish a joint award for mentorship in the near future such that it might be possible to make the award this year, Miller proposed if it essentially comported with the draft proposal distributed by Tobis, the procedure for selecting an awardee be initiated without further approval of the Executive Committee. The Committee unanimously approved this motion.

 

VIII.  New Business:  Having the approval of Lyman Porter by previous communication,   Miller moved that the Chair of the College of Medicine Emeriti Association be a member of the UCIEA Executive Committee. The motion was amended that the position be ex officio (to account for changes of chair) but with voting privileges. The motion passed unanimously, And it was recommended that Porter proceed to invite the Chair of the College of Medicine Emeriti Association to become a member  of our committee.

   

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 10:10 a.m.

 

 

Respectfully submitted by

 Ronald B. Miller, M.D., Secretary