Course Corrections:
Meeting Minutes of the USS AVENGER

08 December 1996

Call to order:

The Meeting Started 1:55 PM.

Attending:

Alex Rosenzweig, Chair

Liz Woolf, Sergeant-at-Arms

Brenda Bell

Stefan Dickinson

Kate Filbert (sp?)

Bob Fillmore

Carlos Maldonado

Heidi Maldonado

Geordi Padovan

Darry Washington

Frank Warren

Zach Zulkowski

Daniel (missed the last name -- new Ops member)

Liz Woolf explained the meeting protocol.

Promotions and Commendations

Command Commendations:

For contributions to the AVENGER Holiday Party:

Stephen Buonocore

Donna Urbanavage

Marla Bush

For work on the STAR TREK^®: First Contact Opening:

Brenda Bell

Wendy Fillmore

Heidi Maldonado

Ann-Ruth Rosenzweig

Donna Urbanavage

Frank Warren

Liz Woolf

Zach Zulkowski

STARFLEET News

STARFLEET Elections:
Ballots for the STARFLEET election are due 15 December; the winners will be notified 2 January

Caring coupons:
Ann-Ruth Rosenzweig is coordinating the project for the AVENGER; Liz Woolf is coordinating the project for Region 7

STARFLEET Stampede:
A package of stamps has recently been sent out to the Stampede coordinator.

Region 7 News

Kilometer of Pennies:
Status of project is unknown or in limbo, as coordinator Bob Vosseller has not issued updates on its status.

Holiday Party:
14 December

New Year's Party:
31 December

Positions open:
RDC Engineering (Zach Zulkowski has an application in for consideration)
Regional Awards Coordinator (Liz Woolf has an application in for consideration)

UFPI News:

There is currently a referendum in process regarding UFPI's incorporation status and basic structure

Sector 007 News:
Newsletter License to Chill has just been released.
Sector Chief elections are in process

AVENGER News:

Holiday Party:
22 AVENGER members and 8 guests attended.

STAR TREK: First Contact premiere:
19 AVENGER members participated; we have gotten 19 new members to-date

Division Reports:

Communications:

Chief of Communications Liz Woolf sent out a division mailing with Alex's mailing for the AVENGER Holiday party. Another mailing will be going out with the calendar from this meeting Departments include Communications, Xenocommunications, and Cryptography

Engineering:

Deadline for submissions for Containment Rupture (CR) is 15 December. Chief Engineer Geordi Padovan is looking for a page-layout program with which to produce future issues of CR. Zach Zulkowski is in the process of updating the AVENGER Engineering Web site Zach is also working on producing a banner using a shower curtain for its base

Medical:

Chief of Recreation Heidi Maldonado is in the process of sending out her second newsletter, but all department members are currently busy

Operations:

No report

Science:

No report

Security:

Has three new members. Contact to-date has been limited to messages left on answering machines. The division is working on restructuring its departments.

The AVENGER is hoping to her final information regarding UFPI daughter-chapter USS HERA's commissioning as a full chapter of UFPI.

The treasury report was given.

Personnel and Planning:
Second Officer Resumes have been accepted; a decision will be made shortly.

AVENGER News
Issue 46 is in production, in expectation of an early January release.
AVENGER News Layout Editor: One resume has been submitted.
AVENGER News Managing Editor: No resumes have been submitted.

Recruitment flyers:
New text was composed for the special STAR TREK^®: First Contact flyer will be moved into the AVENGER's revised general STARFLEET recruiting flyer.

A special Senior Command Staff meeting was held to address the problems of member apathy, and insufficient communication. Ideas will be forthcoming.

Activities:

December 1996:

14

Region 7 Holiday Party in Bloomfield, NJ

14-15

Philadelphia Science Fiction expo at the Adam's Mark hotel

31

Region 7 New Year's Party; this year the theme is Medieval/Renaissance

January 1997:

12

AVENGER meeting

Alex called for ideas for activities. Liz asked about post-meeting division presentations such as the ones that were given back when the AVENGER was meeting at the Robert Wood Johnson auditorium.

Suggested activities:

• USS INTREPID trip (Steve Dickinson)
  • This has been scheduled for April.
  • Carlos asked Steve to contact Dale Kagan for New York City support; Brenda suggested including STARFLEET chapters NORTHSTAR (New York City) and TEMPERANCE (Brooklyn)
• Middlesex County historical sites (Carlos Maldonado)
• Rocket launching (Liz Woolf)
• Snowman-building (Heidi Maldonado)
  • This was suggested as a post-meeting activity if sufficient snowfall permits
• Renaissance Festivals (Brenda Bell)
  • New Jersey State Renaissance Festival
  • New York State Renaissance Festival
• Trenton Computer Fair (Brenda Bell)
• Liberty Science Center (Brenda Bell)
  • This has been scheduled for 8 February 1997.
  • Geordi Padovan will be coordinating the activity.
• Car TREK road ralley (Liz Woolf)
• Dinner-and-Movie Nights (Liz Woolf)
  • These have been scheduled for the second Friday of the month
• STAR WARS reopenings
  • These will occur on the opening night of each film, and will replace the January, February, and March dinner-and-movie nights
• The Cloisters (Kate Filbert)
  • This should be held in the spring
• Billiards or Pool (Geordi Padovan)
• Bowling (Geordi Padovan)
  • This may be scheduled as a post-meeting activity
• Fencing Clinic (Kate Filbert, Brenda Bell, Carlos Maldonado)
  • This might be done in conjunction with a New Hope trip, as Kate has "ins" with the salle (fencing facility) there
  • Tentatively scheduled for 25 January
• BYO Pirate Feasts in New Hope (Kate Filbert)
  • The New Hope salle has occasional BYO pirate-themed parties
• AVENGER Thespians (Liz Woolf)
• Writer's Workshop (Liz Woolf)
  • Scheduled for 26 January.
  • Preparation: write a generic scene, or the scene in which your fire lizard (if you have one in AVENGER fiction) dies
• "L-5" IMAX movie at the Sony IMAX in Manhattan (Alex Rosenzweig)
  • Scheduled for 19 January.
• Ice Skating (Liz Woolf)

Open Forum:

Heidi Maldonado thanked everyone for the computer that several AVENGER members chipped in to give her and Carlos as a wedding gift. She announced that their e-mail address is now purple@castle.net.

Brenda Bell introduced several pages of follow-up info and post-mortem regarding the STAR TREK^®: First Contact opening. Liz Woolf suggested that the document be reviewed and that the discussion be postponed to the January meeting.

Jay DeSarno, a reporter from (missed the paper in question!) interviewed the group for a feature he's working on.

Liz Woolf suggested moving the monthly Stitch-n-Bitch from the second Friday of the month to the fourth Friday.