Attendees: Joe Skwish,
Jose Rameriz, Leroy Franklin, Lonnie Vance, Dan McCarville, Lisa Custer,
Eric Langergren, Ramon Leon, Tom Boardman, Veronica Czitron, Geoff Vining,
Angie Neff, Steve Zayek
Agenda: Officer report,
Minutes, treas, past chair, chair, chair elect, chair elect elect, strat
mtg, comt: prog 99 prog 2000, pub, newsletter, webmaster, council of councils,
CE, 99 research conf, Jeff hooper, 2000 research conf, com to nom fellows,
mary natrella, operating manual, membership
Formal approval of minutes May 18th ,
1999 - Minutes approved
Treasurer's Report -
Leroy Franklin - Acct 1: Q&P Section Acct (20K acct, Pubs 2-3K, Newsletter
2-3K, Phone $500-$1000) - income from dues and publications, Acct 2: Q&P
Conference Acct - conference is a separate account 30-35K profit from conference
will provide 5K to general Q&P account; Acct 3: Joint acct with SPES;
Acct 4: Mary Natrella Fund (approx 14K)
All accounts are positive.
Past-Chair Report -
Veronica - Operating Manual: everyone will be asked to update their sections.
Change to chairs description to add scheduling of Q & P meetings at
JSM.
Chair - Tom Boardman
- New Officers announced
Chair -Elect: Eric Langergren
- Chair elect to sponsor the strategy meeting ; add to the operating manual.
Past, Chair and Elect plus any other Q&P folks.
Program 99 - Dan McCarville
- Issue with the Status of Discussant and Speaker being equivalent, and
hence could not do both.
Program 2000 - Jose
Rameriz - 2 Invited sessions: Winsom Tam Chair: Developments in Automotive
Industry, Developments in Split Plot Experiments, Chair: Session 3, With
SPES, Isolated Statisticians
Newsletter and Publications
- Lisa Moore has noted an overbilling situation in the latest newsletter
and is working diligently with the ASA office to rectify. Great frustration
in getting newsletter articles for the newsletter. Should approach Tom for
general meeting info, Rita Lai for 2000 Q&P Conf, Veronica for Mary
Natrella Fund, Angie Neff for electronic conference attendance, Ron Snee
for the future of Six Sigma, Jose for Program 2000, Dan for Program 99
Webmaster - Web is up
to date.
Council of Sections
- Lonnie Vance - Highlights from meetings at JSM: ASA is asking the sections
to provide statistical reviews to non statistical articles. Proposal for
a section on Non-Parametrics Statistics it was accepted. ASA dues will go
from $74 to $80. Budget for 2000 approved, $100K discretionary fund for
proposals. Do any of the sections want demographics on members - Mary Fleming
(Assoc. Exe Dir )
Continuing Education
- Steve Zayek - Bill Meeker to do a one day, Jeff Wu on DOE, Approach Ron
Snee for 6 Sigma,
Sematech/NIST - would be willing to publicize the Mary Natrella fund on their web site.
Can get hold of Bill Meeker's list for email addresses.
1999 Q&P - 330 participants from 10 countries, The conference will have cleared 33K +/- 10%
2000 Q&P - Seattle,
at U of Washington joint with Boeing, Rita Lai and Joe Booker
Committee to nominate fellows - Joe Skwish - Suggestions for this year. If you have suggestions,
then please also have a person to have to spearhead the committee. Could
use some more nominations.
Mary Natrella Fund -
Meeting on Tuesday - will get back to committee via email.
Mixer info - Tuesday
at 5:30 with SPES.
Membership Committee
- Can we solicit the Q and P conference attendees to Advertise the Q and
P section.
New business:
ASA request for dues increase - rejected
Charter revision - no
Schedule for next conference call - (The sec and chair
settle on week, sec polls participants, select date) Suggest the 2nd
week in October - Wednesday preferable. Oct 6th.
Action Items: