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The National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Officer Meeting Wednesday September 8, 2003
Meeting Called to Order by President at 1:15pm.
Last Years Events
Last Years Events were brought up to help point out what worked well last
year and what improvements can be made for this year.
Community Service Projects
Kara then passed out a paper with a list of some community service projects
such as Life source blood drive, volunteering for St.Vincent DePaul Parish,
Kaboom (a program designed to build playgrounds) and Habitat for Humanity.
We have decided that it is a good idea to have at least one service project
per month.
Make a difference day was discussed and Shayna is going to find out the date
for it. Suggestions are welcome!
Jibran suggested we do a volunteer service day CTI every month.
We decided that it would be a good idea to planned 2 community service
events planned for October and November before the Induction Ceremony so that
newly indicted NSCS members can sign up at induction!
There is going to be Clothing Drive in November.
College Bowl
College Bowl was such a success last year that we will be doing it again!
Laura G. is in charge and if anyone would like to help she would gladly
appreciate it! It will be held fall quarter this year and we will be
recruiting for it at the involvement fair Sunday Sept.14. We will be giving
out $50 gist certificates as prizes!
Induction Ceremony
The induction ceremony will be October 7th. We need NSCS members to help
greet people and sign people in, so if you have any friends in NSCS that could
help out it would be great!
Officers need to be at the student center at 5pm to help set up. People will
be arriving at 6:30pm.
We discussed not having a keynote speaker this year and using that time to
give out scholarships (1 $500, and 4 $100) awarded to those NSCS inductees
that applied for the merit scholarship through the national board. We also
discussed maybe having an alumnus come and speak instead.
The distinguished members are going to be Locia Dettori, Kimberly Craft, and
Matthew Dintzner.
We have decided that it is a good idea to read off all the names of new
inductees at induction.
Partnering with other Chicago NSCS Chapters
We have discussed partnering with other Chicago Chapters. We think it would
be a good idea to host an event with the other Chicago NSCS chapters such as
having Jesse Jackson Jr. the Illinois NSCS rep. to come and speak at DePaul or
maybe doing a social event such as seeing Alfred Hitcocks Psycho in
November.
Another good idea was to do a service project with the other Chicago NSCS
chapters.
Laura T. handed out the new budget for our chapter this year!
Officer Transition
Having new officers take over in mid April under supervision of the old
officers was recommended for this years end of the year officer transition.
NSCS Awareness
We need to make NSCS more visible this year and more people aware. One
suggestion was that we give away free food sometime during finals week this
year. Any other suggestions are welcome!
Meetings
Meetings will be set at 9:15pm every 2nd Monday of the month. Our first NSCS
Chapter meeting will be Oct. 13th.
Contact Info
Please send Laura T. your contact information including your address, phone
number, SS#, Student ID#, and email address at Tickie22@hotmail.com if you
have not done so already!
Meeting Ends 2:22pm
Minutes written by Laura Griffin
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