Report on the Annual Spring Meeting
                              April, 2001


         The Sixty-Ninth Annual Spring Meeting of the Wisconsin Section 
         was held at St. Norbert College on April 20-21, 2001.  

         There were 157 persons who attended the meeting.  These persons 
         were in various categories as follows:

             regular members:  87
                    pre-registered (@ $15):  69
                    registered at mtg (@ $20): 18
             non members (preregistered @ $17):  6
             high school teachers: 12 
                    Receiving teaching award:  3
                    registering (@10.00):  9

             retired (@ $10):   4
             invited speakers:  3
             publishers (@ $50):  3
             Undergraduate students:   41
             Grants Workshop facilitator:  1
             Two year college faculty (est):  35


         Meeting income was as follows:
           Total registration fees              $ 1772.00
           Banquet tickets                        1440.00
           Grants Workshop (10 @ 15)               150.00 
           Commission on booksales of  $ 1010       93.33
                                             ______________
                      
                       Total income:            $ 3455.33
         
         Costs:
          
            NExT luncheon                                $ 184.73
            Veggie tray w/dip, pretzels (5:25 pm Fri.)     198.63            
            Banquet for 130                               1714.05
            Saturday coffee, 3 gal reg, 2 gal decaf.)       60.50
            Cookies Friday                                  16.83
            Donuts, bagels, orange juice Sat.               60.53
           
                     Total catering bill subtotal:      $ 2235.27

            John Harvey, invited speaker                 $ 150.00
            Grants workshop xeroxing, nametags             183.00 
            Plaque for Richard Snyder                       26.00
            Meeting programs, teacher award certificates    97.50
         
                                      Subtotal:          $ 456.50
         
            TOTAL COSTS:                                $ 2691.77

            MEETING PROFIT:                              $ 763.56
         

         There were 128 persons who attended the banquet on Friday night.  
         Of these 39 were students, and 3 were guests.  Students paid  
         $5.00 each for the banquet.  Other paying participants paid $15 
         each.  The non paying persons were three invited speakers, and 
         three invited high school teachers who received teaching awards.   
         Underwood Dudley's banquet address on calculus textbooks, 
         starting with L'Hopital's book, received rave reviews.  
         The 128 people at the banquet included 3 invited high school 
         teachers who received teaching awards.  The three were Michael 
         Berken (Pulaski H.S.), Susan Casper (Ashwanbenun H.S.), and 
         William Zigmund (Green Bay West H.S.).  A fourth high school 
         teacher, Harry Geiser (G. B. Notre Dame Academy H.S.) also 
         was honored with a teaching award, but could not be at the 
         banquet.  

         Ranjan Roy, Beloit College, received the 2001 Distinguished 
         Teaching Award for College or University Mathematics Teaching.  
         The award was presented by a former recipient of the award, Gary 
         Britton.  
         
         There were 24 contributed papers.  Of these 9 were presented by 
         students.  Saturday morning from 9:00 until 11:00 a.m. there was 
         a panel presentation and discussion, "School Articulation", 
         organized by Fredric Tufte (UW-Platteville), Marty Schuh (UW-
         Manitowoc), and James Marty (Carroll College).  Panel members 
         were middle school and high school teachers.  The meeting had 
         two invited addresses besides Dudley's.  John Harvey on Friday 
         afternoon presented  "Mathematics Education: Where Are We Going? 
         Where Have We Been?" and on Saturday, Georgia Benkart presented 
         "Algebras that go up and down".  
         
         After Benkart's talk  there was an Executive Board Meeting.  In 
         attendance were John Symms, Aaron Trautwine, Tony Thomas, 
         Richard Snyder, Rick Tufte,  Jim Marty, Andy Matchett, John 
         Koker, Bhagat Singh, Kathy Muhs, Jon Kane, and Ben Collins.  
         This was a lunch meeting, held in the upstairs room of The Abby 
         Bar and Grill.  
                  
             The agenda were: 
                - Introductions, email addresses, etc.
                - Minutes/treasurer's report
                - Governor's report
                - Newsletter
                - Review of Spring Meeting
                - Student Activities
                - Project NExT
                - Math contests
                - Report from WMC
                - Public information-Liaison report
                - Date of next exec. board meeting

         It was a useful meeting.  Tony had very good things to say about 
         the student talks, which ranged from excellent to superb.  The 
         students liked the banquet and Underwood Dudley's banquet 
         address.  Richard Snyder's passing the Newsletter torch to Kathy 
         Muhs is a real milestone, and is proceeding very smoothly 
         because of the laudable committment of both of them.  The next 
         distinguished teaching selection committee will be Ranjan Roy, 
         Charlotte Chell, and Donald Passman (chair).  The new State Math 
         Contest Coordinators will be Linda Uselman, Steven Post, and Ken 
         Jewel.  The next meeting will be September 28, 2001, at UW-
         Baraboo.  
         
         Respectfully submitted,

         Andrew Matchett