Executive Committee Meeting
                       2510 Stewart Avenue, Wausau
                       April 26, 2003
                       
                       
     Present:  Matchett, Tony Thomas, Jonathan Kane, Kathy Muhs, 
     John Symms, Rick Poss, Jim Marty, Mark Snavely 

 1.  This meeting is the Executive Committee's post-Annual Spring Meeting 
     meeting.  Andy was late because he got lost on the way to the 
     restaurant.  He arrived in time to record some of what transpired.  

 2.  Kristen Lampe will take over on Math Contests.  She is a colleague 
     of John Symms at Carroll College.  

 3.  Rick Poss reported that if a governor cannot attend a Governor's 
     meeting, then he or she may appoint a person to go in his or her 
     place.  That person may vote if and only if that person is a former 
     Governor.  

 4.  A new committee was brought into being.  This will be called the 
     Awards Committee.  Jonathan Kane and Phil Straffin will be the two 
     initial members and co-organizers of the committee.  

 5.  It was decided that since Jayanthi Ganapathy cannot attend Mathfest, 
     and since Jon Kane was done out of a trip on his turn to attend 
     Mathfest, that Jon should be the section representative to that 
     meeting.  

 6.  Evaluation of Spring Meeting.  
 
      - Excellent meeting 
      - Presiders were not appointed for the contributed paper sessions, 
        a slight shortcoming.  
      - Mark Snavely reported that of 34 contributed papers, he received 
        3 abstracts by U.S. mail, 2 by email and the rest via the 
        registration form he placed on his website.  There was some 
        discussion of how to work this next year.  
      - Preliminary indications are that there were more students at the 
        banquet than ever.  The decision was made to increase the 
        registration fee to $20.00 rather than increase the cost of the 
        banquet for regular members.  Somebody needs to subsidize the 
        student banquet tickets, but it should not be entirely the other 
        banquet participants.  

 7.  Newsletter:  The Spring Newsletter was posted on the website by Tony 
     Thomas.  But nobody responded to Kathy's request to hear from folks 
     who want to be taken off the regular mailing list and receive only a 
     short notice about the Newsletter being posted.   We tried email to 
     alert the membership that the Newsletter had been posted, but the 
     email never went out.  

     There was a big discussion of election procedures.  David Stone said 
     that most sections have uncontested elections.  We should consider doing 
     the same, was the general consensus.  Andy will check into bylaws to see 
     if this is ok.  Bylaws being mentioned, the thought occurred that it 
     would be nice to have those posted on the Wisconsin Section website.  
     Andy will post the bylaws on his website and Tony will decide whether to 
     download the document to the Section site or just link to Andy's site.  

     Next meeting:  UW-Baraboo, Fri, Sept. 19 2003.