Meeting Minutes

November 3, 2004

What a way to start out our November Meeting. Bill Luzader, aka Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and a little Jack Horkheimer, reincarnated, gave us his first installment, concerning trajectories of orbiting objects and how to compute the distances to the various planets, using relatively simple math. Some of us, I hope I wasn't alone, were scratching their heads, but many others really got into the discussion. Actually, giving some of us lesser mortals, hope in our capabilities. All in all, an enjoyable and educational presentation. Well done, Bill.

Next we turned our attention to one of this month’s more important annual topics; the nominations of Officers and Directors for the upcoming year. As happened last year, people were nominated, but with no opposition. Therefore, once again we forgo the election process, next month and all the nominee's are automatically elected. Congratulations to the following: Richard (Andy) Anderson-President, Louis Gentile-Vice President, Charles (Chuck) McCarthy-Treasurer, Paul Grueter-Secretary/Webmaster and to the three Directors; Bill Luzader, Tenney Doble and Rolf Egon.

A special thanks to Tenney, for his years of service as our supreme leader. Luckily, we were able to keep him involved, filling one of the Directors positions; where his experience and input, will be appreciated.

Finally we turned to discussions about the upcoming "Leonids", which I unfortunately stated as being on the 13th of November. The duration period is actually from the 13th-20th of November, with the peak at 2:30 a.m. on the 17th. We also discussed the revived newsletter, by Andy and his problems with getting it out to everyone. The solution is to have Paul place it on the web page, where everyone, as well as guest, can access it. Problem solved! It was also brought up, to do our meteor viewing from Myles Standish, as it is darker; this option is still outstanding, but unless notified otherwise, the viewing will be at our normal viewing site, at Centennial Field, weather permitting, we may have a late night viewing session on the 13th and maybe take in the beginnings of the "Leonids and for those diehard soles, showing up after midnight on the 16th, early morning on the 17th, to view the "Leonids, at their peak.

At this point, the meeting business had been concluded and some people broke up into groups, to chit chat and others started to leave. One again, thanks are due to Skip, for the coffee and brownies. Another fun and informative gathering comes to close. Till next time; "KEEP LOOKING UP."