VA-SRA
Minutes 6/9/2004
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Boar's Head Inn, Charlottesville President Mike Glasgow called to order at 12:35 pm the business meeting of the spring conference of the Virginia Chapter of Research Administrators. In attendance were President Glasgow, President Elect Mike Ludwick, Secretary Lorraine Murphey, and all attendees of the conference. Treasurer Anne McGuigan was unable to attend. Attendance at this meeting was 150, a record number of attendees. Minutes of the December 10, 2003 meeting were in the meeting packet and were reviewed. A motion was made and seconded that the minutes be accepted as presented, and the motion carried. The Treasurer's report was in the meeting packet and was reviewed. A motion was made and seconded that the Treasurer's report be accepted as presented, and the motion carried. Old business: The bylaws committee, consisting of Anne Womack and Pat Buennemeyer, formed at the December 10, 2003 meeting to consider changing the bylaws as regards to dues, presented its findings in a report included in the meeting packet. Said change consists of removing the requirement that dues be paid because state regulations do not allow the use of state funds to pay dues. A motion was made and seconded that the change to the bylaws be accepted, and the motion carried. President Glasgow thanked the committee for their work. President Glasgow reminded those present that the VA-SRA offers two travel fellowships to attend a southern section meeting or an annual meeting. Deadline for the national meeting is July 16, 2004 and deadline for the southern section meeting is January 31, 2005 . The application must be in President Elect Ludwick's hands by those deadlines. President Elect Ludwick suggests that applicants email him also about their interest in the fellowship. President Elect Ludwick thanked the meeting committee, consisting of Betty Browder, President Glasgow, Kobby Hoffman, and Dave Richardson, for the effort invested in planning this meeting. Their hard work has resulted in a meeting with excellent attendance and a quality program. President Elect Ludwick also extended special thanks to Gina Correll and Rod Waterman for their hard work in pulling this meeting together. Gina and Rod were given gifts of appreciation for their help. There being no further old business, President Glasgow continued to new business. New business: President Elect Ludwick called for volunteers to host future meetings. He reported that Dave Richardson for Virginia Tech has already offered to host the fall meeting at the Roanoke campus, and asked for a show of interest by those present in going to Roanoke in the fall. There being a great deal of interest demonstrated, this offer was accepted. Betty Browder offered VCU as the site of the spring 2005 meeting and this was also accepted. President Glasgow then presented gifts of appreciation to outgoing President Elect Ludwick, Treasurer Ann McGuigan (Sarah from Ann's office accepted it for her), and Secretary Lorraine Murphey. Immediate Past President Betty Browder presented outgoing President Glasgow with a thank you remembrance for his excellent leadership. President Elect Ludwick gave to Chuck Chermside a gift of appreciation for his long years devoted to research administration as Chuck will be retiring in November 2004. Betty Browder accepted the gift for Chuck who was unable to attend. President Elect Ludwick announced that the field of research administration will be losing another valuable member as Anne Womach is retiring on June 30, 2004 . Anne is a Past President of the VA-SRA and has been active in the organization for many years. Her grace under pressure, her humor, and her great mentoring will be sorely missed. She was presented with a gift of appreciation. President Glasgow suggested that Anne Womack and Chuck Chermside should be granted VA-SRA lifetime membership status. This suggestion was approved unanimously. The Secretary was asked to prepare certificates of lifetime membership for each of them. The next order of new business was election of officers. President Glasgow called upon Betty Browder, chair of the nominating committee, to present the slate of officers: President Elect Ludwick President Chairperson Browder asked for nominations from the floor. There being none, she asked for a motion to accept the slate of officers as presented. Motion was made and seconded. The motion carried unanimously. Immediate Past President Glasgow turned the meeting over to President Ludwick, who called for any other new business. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:55 pm . Respectfully submitted,
Ruby Lorraine Murphey Secretary
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