MINUTES OF
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF SPEAKING DIFFERENTLY CORPERATION
Date: June 13, 2005
Place: Metro Hall,
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Members Present: Anne Abbott, Verna Abbott,
Regrets: Urszula May, Aaron Shelbourne,
Sarah Green, Carmen Robitaille-Brown
Guests: Liz
McDougal, Laura
Del Bove
Previous minutes:
AA moved and GF seconded that the
minutes of May 16, 2005 be accepted as circulated, Carried 8-0-0.
Treasurer's report:
Petty Cash $614.51
Trillium
funds $650.00
Membership Committee:
A brief meeting of the membership committee was held today. While UM is away, SG has been taking
over her membership committee duties.
All renewal letters (35 in total) were sent out by mail. SG made an announcement in the Year 1
SLP class. Four new students have
joined, and at least two others have indicated an interest in joining.
Publications
Committee:
Nina found a list
of e-mail addresses for AAC users who want to participate in writing. Three of them are teenagers (not all in
GF reported
that Pippa Wennberg will be
taking over his publications duties.
It was decided to keep the same letter theme.
Web site update (www.speakingdifferently.org)
The final version of the Take AACtion
website prepared by Sarah Green, Aimee Kelly and Pamela Rahn
is ready. The authors will meet
with BOK this week to finalize the details.
Paul
Marshall is updating the website with some new additions. It is coming along very well and should
be ready by the end of June.
Broken
Speech at the PEC Conference in
BOK
reported that the producer in St. Catharine’s saw the play, and enjoyed
it. He wrote some comments and
suggestions and gave them to David.
More financial resources are needed to produce the video. TD is wondering about SD involvement in
the play. Finding a producer is a
priority.
Publicity Committee:
ML reported
that she received a list of members’ e-mails from SG, but found that
sending out e-mails didn’t work well. BOK suggested increasing the publicity
subcommittee to four or five people in order to be able to distribute Loud
‘N Clear outside the SD membership, create press releases, create
publicity kits, etc. There is a
need for the publicity committee to meet outside of the board
meeting. BOK suggested that press
releases should be sent other than by e-mail.
Other Business:
NW reported
that the meetings for the ICE Conference are starting again soon.
BOK
reported that TD and Pippa Wennberg
are going to work on a dance.
The dates of next year’s
meetings are as follows:
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Thursday,
September 15, 2005
Thursday,
October 20, 2005
Thursday,
November 10, 2005
Thursday,
December 8, 2005 (
Thursday,
January 12, 2006
Thursday,
February 16, 2006
Thursday,
March 16, 2006
Thursday,
April 13, 2006
Thursday,
May 18, 2006
Thursday,
June 15, 2006
Place:
Metro Hall
Room: Meeting Room 313A (room subject to change)
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Please contact us:
Members and other interested parties are invited to contact any member of
the executive council. Email addresses are below. Questions, comments, and your
experiences with AAC are all welcome. We would also be most pleased if you
were to submit letters or articles to Loud 'N Clear
(speakingdifferently@gmail.com)
Board of Directors and Officers of
Speaking Differently:
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President and Chairman
of the Board: Anne Abbott |
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Vice-President and
Member of the Board: Tony Diamanti |
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Treasurer and Member of
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Secretary and Member of
the Board: Urszula May |
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Publicity Chair and Member
of the Board: Mabel Lam |
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Members of the Board: |
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Verna Abbott |
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Perry Redlick |
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Carmen
Robitaille-Brown |
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Aaron Shelbourne |
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Sarah Green |
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Editor of the
Association: Garth Foote |
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Assistant Editor: Nina Wright |
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Web master: Paul
Marshall |
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SD Web Site: |