Business Meeting
                         Wisconsin Section of the MAA
                                April 21, 2001
                             St. Norbert College


         1.  The meeting was called to order at 8:02 a.m. by Chair 
             Bhagat Singh.  Approximately 50 members were in 
             attendance.
         
         2.  Matchett presented minutes of last year's business meeting 
             in Superior.  He also presented his Treasurer's Report.  
             Both were approved.  The present meeting is going well, he 
             reported, and the number of participants appears to be 
             higher than usual.  Special thanks are extended to the three 
             publishers who are participating with excellent book and 
             software displays.  They are McGraw-Hill (represented by 
             Jennifer Lewis and Linda Lampe), Prentice Hall (represented 
             by Mike Perman), and Harcourt-Brace (represented by Lisa 
             Miller).  
         
         3.  Rick Tufte gave his Governor's report.  The first item was 
             Mathfest, which will be August 2-4, 2001 in Madison.  Rick 
             encouraged everyone to attend and to urge colleagues to 
             attend.  Another item of interest is the big increase in 
             funding on the horizon for mathematics education.  

         4.  The two nominations for Chair-elect were Mark Snavely 
             (Carthage College) and Jonathan Kane (UW - Whitewater).  
             Mindful of the election difficulties last year in Florida 
             (butterfly ballots, pregnant chads), and even worse in 
             Superior (tie vote at WI Section business meeting requiring 
             hand counted revote), Chair Singh had taken the precaution 
             of printing up ballots with extra large check boxes, both 
             aligned on same side of ballot.  The ballots were 
             distributed.  

         5.  Aaron Trautwein, Public Information Officer-Liaison 
             Coordinator reported on Math Awareness Week and on his and 
             Charlotte Chell's visits to UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, and 
             Marquette University.  The purpose of the visits is to 
             inform graduate students about the MAA.  Madison is visited 
             every other year, and in alternate years UW-Milwaukee and 
             Marquette.
         
             Announcement of election results:  Jonathan Kane is the new 
             Chair-Elect.

         6.  Tony Thomas reported on student participation, which is up 
             at this meeting partly because of the very active Pi Mu 
             Epsilon chapter at St. Norbert College.  A Pi Mu Epsilon 
             regional conference will take place at St. Norbert College 
             Nov. 2-3, 2001.  

         7.  Bhagat Singh was pleased to name Linda Uselmann, Edgewood 
             College, the new Wisconsin High School MAA Math Contest 
             Coordinator.  Linda will work with Ken Jewel and Steven Post 
             on this.  John Symms reported on the contests this past 
             year.  There were 90 schools that participated in the AMC 
             contests and 106 that participated in the State Contest.  
             The winners of the Wisconsin Section Math Contest prize were 
             Po Ru Loh (first place) and Yian Zhang (second place).  
             Symms thanked Azar Khosravani, UW-Oshkosh, and Mark 
             Beintema, UW-Fox Valley for their excellent work in 
             coordinating last year's contest.  Thanks were also given to 
             Prof. Jeganathan Sriskandarajah, known to all as Sri, for 
             another excellent year coordinating the National MAA Math 
             Contests.  

         8.  Bhagat Singh named Benjamin V. C. Collins, of
             UW-Platteville, the new Project NExT Wisconsin director.  
             Ben will be taking over from Jennifer Szydlik, UW-Oshkosh.  
             Jennifer was director from April, 1998, until April, 2001.  

         9.  Future Meeting Sites.  The 2002 Annual Spring Meeting will 
             be at Ripon College on April 12-13.  There was discussion of 
             sites for 2003.  It was moved and seconded that the 2003 
             meeting shall be at UW-Marathon (Wausau, WI).  That motion 
             passed readily.  For 2004 and beyond, Madison Area Technical 
             College, UW-Washington, and UW-Whitewater have expressed 
             interest.  

        10.  Bhagat Singh named Kathy Muhs, of St. Norbert College, the 
             next Wisconsin Section Newsletter Editor.  Kathy will be 
             taking over from Richard Snyder, UW-Eau Claire, who has 
             served as Newsletter Editor since April, 1991, two 5-year 
             terms.  

        11.  Jim Marty reported on activities of the Wisconsin Math 
             Council.  As the new editor of the Wisconsin Mathematics 
             Teacher, he is looking for articles.  

        12.  At the end of the meeting, Bhagat Singh thanked the Section 
             for the opportunity to serve for the past two years as 
             chair-elect and chair and declared that it is a nice 
             experience to have.  Bhagat is retiring from his position at 
             UW-Manitowoc this year but allowed he will probably teach a 
             course or two in the future.  Also he will continue on the 
             Wisconsin Section Executive Board as Past Chair. 
         
        13.  Adjournment at 8:45 a.m.


             Respectfully submitted,

             Andy Matchett
             Secretary/treas.