Excom Minutes

PRESENT:  Jerry Corbin, Stevie Crowley, Meg Kelleher, Glenn Case, John Seeliger, Mike Johnson, and guests Robert Andrews and Maynard.

    The offices of Membership (Jerry Corbin acting), Scholarship, Parliamentarian, By Laws, and Community Relations remain open.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

    Regarding the RG, John and Stevie reported that Carolyn Robinson (registrar) is already getting applications, a mailing will be going out this week to former attendees, the RG committee had a meeting and discussed, among other things, various possible configurations of hospitality.

OFFICER REPORTS:

    Mike Johnson reported that he has developed a Mensa ID badge that can be placed in a shirt pocket for high visibility to assist newcomers when a group is meeting in a public place.

    Stevie Crowley reported that speakers at the Forum continue to get favorable remarks in the evaluations.  Jerry will host the next post-Forum get together at the Uptown Brewery.

   National Testing Day is coming up in November.  Jerry has been working with Steve Broe on publicity for Mensa.  They visited KBAQ and KJAZZ radio stations and discussed being a sponsor to receive advertising for Mensa.  They will bring information to the next meeting to discuss this in more detail.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

    GPM Web Site Issues:  Robert Andrews presented information about the web site he maintains for Greater Phoenix Mensa.  It contains pages such as the archived newsletters that Alan Gore maintains and links to other sites such as the Mensa Intranets page and other Mensa groups, national and international.  Our web site is also included in several search engines such as Yahoo, Excite, Google, and Lycos, has referrals at pages such as Microsoft, Angelfire, Go.com, Dogpile, Geocites, and Alta Vista and in the future, Robert plans to link to Mike Johnson’s email list.  The Mensa main page gets about 300 hits per month, the humor page gets about 730, and the old newsletters pages about 70.  The new domain names we purchased (greaterphoenixmensa.org and phoenixmensa.org), when accessed, go directly to our current web site.  Robert recommended we leave the ariz.com/mensa address as listed in MAAM and list one other address also, such as phoenixmensa.org.  He also recommended we print the national Mensa address (which links to ours) since it’s a stable address.  Robert also encouraged that more pictures be sent for publishing on the web site and that we show email addresses of key people, such as the membership chair.  Mike moved and John seconded that we purchase the name phoenixmensa.com for 5 years and publish this name in MAAM along with phoenixmensa.org.  The motion passed.  Robert will send an article to Glenn.

    In regards to potential GPM projects, it was decided we should get in touch with the Pappas School to gather information about possibly supporting this charity.  Jerry volunteered to do that.

GOOD AND WELFARE (MATTERS ARISING):

    We need a new host for a New Year's or  Christmas party.  It was also suggested we have a membership party.  Jerry suggested we give some thought to these issues.

    Meg made a motion for adjournment and Glenn seconded.  The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 1:20 p.m.