National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators Annual Breakfast and Business Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
Hyatt, Pavillion 9
Saturday, December 13, 1997
7:00-8:30 am PST

Presiding: Mike Dyrenfurth, Incoming President

Officers Present: Rod Custer, Mike Dyrenfurth, Jeff Flesher, Jim Gregson, Dennis Herschbach, Roger Hill, Scott Johnson, Ted Lewis, Gregory Petty, Sam Stern, Chet Wichowski 1.0 Welcome and Introductions..........Mike Dyrenfurth 1.1 Past presidents, past trustees, and special guests recognized and asked to stand.

1.2 Current officers seated at head table introduced.

 2.0 Keynote Address..........Sam Stern

2.1 Speaker, Sam Stern, was introduced by Mike Dyrenfurth.

2.2 Address presented by outgoing president Stern. The comments included an overview of accomplishments during Sam's two-year term of service and suggestions for future areas of work for NAITTE. 4.0 Special Recognitions and Awards, Sam Stern 4.1 Rod Custer, present JITE Editor, recognized Richard Lakes and Dave Pucel for service as outgoing members of the Editorial Committee. Other members of the Board also recognized.

4.2 Rod Custer, JITE Editor, presented recognition of outstanding manuscripts. Recipients were Christian A. Chinien, France Boutin, and Charles Letteri for the outstanding research manuscript, Michael Knoll for outstanding conceptual manuscript, and Richard Satchwell for outstanding dissertation-based manuscript.

4.3 Thomas Bell, editor of the ITE Directory, presented the current issue of the ITE Directory and commented on its preparation and successful production.

4.4 Sam Stern presented the NAITTE/G. Harold Silvius Foundation "Outstanding Young Industrial Teacher Educator" award to Dan Brown.

4.5 Sam Stern presented the Distinguished Service Award posthumously to Nevin Frantz and presented the plaque to Curt Finch of VPI. Outstanding Service Awards were presented to Joan Friedenberg for her work as chair of the Research Committee and to Mark Merickel for his work on the NAITTE web site.

 5.0 NAITTE Business Meeting called to order, Sam Stern 5.1 Roger Hill presented the minutes of the October telemeeting with a motion that they be accepted. Second by Jim Gregson and motion passed.

5.2 Officer reports were provided in printed form at the tables for review by members attending.

5.3 Jeff Flesher presented the Treasurer's report and commented on significant points. In particular the $5,000 gift left to NAITTE by Nevin Frantz in his will was noted as well as the fact that expenditures have exceeded income slightly for the past several years.

5.4 Scott Johnson conducted the installation of officers for the 1997-98 term.

5.5 Sam explained that the $5,000 left by Nevin to the NAITTE was a challenge grant. He was aware that NAITTE was investigating formation of a foundation. Nevin left $5000 contingent upon a matching $5000 being raised by the Association through a new foundation that might be formed to support the Association. The report of the foundation task force was summarized, including the recommendation that the constitution be amended to allow for the formation of the foundation and a separate governing structure for that foundation.

5.6 Mike Dyrenfurth presented an address as incoming president that reflected on the path that brought him to the position he was entering at this time. He also commented on the future of NAITTE and the challenges ahead.

5.7 Final remarks were presented by Mike Dyrenfurth and the meeting was adjourned at 8:40.

 Respectfully submitted,

Roger B. Hill
Secretary

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