ASME
Section Meeting Minutes 4-22-04
At Kraft
Headquarters
7 Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ
Attendance: attendees noted by * and bold type
Arnold
Pristernik-Honors and Awards & Treasurer
Art Vasky
Beal Moore-Chair, History and Heritage
Bill Koehler
Boris Khusid-Essex/Hudson Chair
Bud Foster
Hugh Huntzinger
Iggy D’Agati
Jim O’Toole
Karen Ohland-Section Chair & Vice Chair, Bergen/Passaic
Larry Schmerzler
Lisa Laplante- Industry relations
Pablo Ospina-Webmaster
Peter Hauser -Director, Northeast Region Office
*Ramesh Gulrajani-Morris/Sussex Chair
*Richard Dolinsky-Bergen /Passaic Chair
Richard F. Tax, American Engineering Assoc
Richard Touma
* Sid Goodman-Section Secretary
Sid called the
meeting to order at 7:45 pm
(Karen Ohland could not attend because of a broken arm.)
Attendance was
sparse because the meeting was changed to this new date in the hope that
Karen would be well enough to attend.
Unfortunately, she is still not able to drive or use a computer.
Beal Moore is suffering from back problems.
Next
Section Meeting May 20, Thursday – 7:30pm
Kraft
Headquarters
7 Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ
Directions:
Route 287 to
route 10 west, Exit 39B (if coming south).
Merge onto NJ 10 west. Take Dryden Way ramp toward Ridgedale Ave/Cedar
Knolls.
Turn left onto Campus Drive.
Turn left right after Hilton Court. Parking lot for Kraft is there.
If coming east on NJ 10, take Dryden Way ramp and follow as above.
ASME
Region II Administrative Conference (RAC)
May 14-16 at
the Verkhovyna Mountain Resort in Glen Spry, NY.
Karen Ohland will E-mail information to anyone who is interested in
attending this RAC, which is Located in a scenic area 12 miles from Port
Jervis, NY. E-mail her at
ohlank@asme.org. It would be nice to arrange a car pool. Visit the
RAC website for complete details at
http://www.asme.org/regions/nero/R2_RAC_2004.htm.
Regional
Student Conference April 24th:
This will be a
one-day event, which will involve a student design competition. The
challenge is to pick up the most simulated mines with a robotic
mine-sweeper. Iggy D’Agati, Karen Ohland, Lisa Laplante, and
Richard Dolinsky will attend as judges Dick Touma made the welcoming
introductory speech.
Aviation
Museum (Teterboro) program Event:
Scheduled for
May 22 Beal Moore and Sid Goodman made arrangements for this event. See
the announcement at the end of these Meeting Minutes. At this Section
Meeting, we discussed publicity and agreed that we would ask Lisa
Laplante to send out an E-mail to all members for whom she has an E-mail
address. We will send a flyer to those members who do not have E mail.
Beal Moore had
supplied us with a quote from a printer who can print flyers from copy
ready art, (which we have) address them, fold and seal them, apply
postage and mail them. Whether beql he would be able to coordinate this
because of his health remains to be determined.
Ramesh
suggested that all our attendees visit Kinkos, which is about a mile
away from where we held the meeting to ask if they can do what Beal’s
source can do. We left a message for their manager, Jack Abbate tel:
973-984-8028 (1960 Route 10, Morris Plains, NJ 07950-2601) to give us a
quote. We will compare his quote with the quote that Beal supplied us
with about a year ago. (Sid called Jack on 4-26-04). Jack had not seen
the message left for him yet, but Jack said he could do it all, so Sid
asked for a quote to be faxed, with time being of the essence. If he
doesn’t respond in a timely fashion, Sid will check with Beal and Beal’s
suggested source.
Sid will ask
Lisa Laplante for a disk with the addresses of members who do not have
E-mail.
Federal
Government Fellowship Program:
ASME has
established a program whereby members may become advisers to Congress
and the White House. Contact ASME headquarters for information.
Patent
and Invention Program:
We will
schedule this program for the fall. Although the Stevens Institute is
interested in having a program at Stevens it is not possible to do it
this spring. We would like to have the program in the late afternoon for
students, serve supper, and then have an evening session. Serving a
supper at Stevens is no problem.
Tour of
Kodalux in Fair Lawn, NJ:
Arnold
Pristernik contacted George Audisio (audisio@qualexphoto.com). Arnold
will attempt to arrange a tour for the fall, possibly in September.
Kodalux needs a 6-week advance notice. The tour would include
photographic film printing, paper processing, paper cutting, and
packaging.
ASME
Reorganization-Change and Continuity Initiative:
Bud Foster
said he would prepare a draft statement that addresses the concerns of
our Section Officers. We have not yet received it. Bud’s E-mail address
does not accept messages. Has he changed it?
ASME
celebration of 125th Anniversary – February, 2005:
Volunteer
coordinators for E-week 2005 and the anniversary are sought from each
Section. Please contact Karen at ohlandk@asme.org if you are interested
in being either a volunteer coordinator or a volunteer.
James Litvany
of the Stevens North Jersey Alumni is interested in having an
anniversary event at the Stevens Institute. He would like more
information. His e-mail address is
litvany@dnvps.com
Solar
Splash – an ASME Event – June 16-20
ASME is
looking for volunteers. If interested, contact Roberta Gorman.
phone: 212-591-7742, E-mail (gormanr@asme.org)
Treasurer’s Report:
No report at
this meeting
Section
Picnic for next summer:
Definitely
scheduled for Saturday July 24th
Richard Dolinsky said he confirmed the 24th and he will schedule a rain
date. Whether the rain date will be July 31st remains to be determined.
Sid asked Richard to supply copy so Sid can prepare a
flyer/announcement. Swartzwood Park offers swimming, boating, and
fishing. It has a concession stand.
Date for
Honors and Awards Dinner:
June 17th -
The dinner will be held at the Hanover Inn. Karen confirmed the date
with the Inn.
Other
Possible future programs:
-
Picatinny
Arsenal – Bud Foster said he would ask people at the Arsenal if they
were willing to present a program. No response yet.
-
Management/Consulting/Starting a business – Dick Touma will coordinate a
discussion. Brian Boden (a manager at Kraft) and Iggy D’Agati
(established a successful business) agreed to serve as panelists. No
response yet.
-
Visit to
Sterling Mine and wine tasting event. Lisa Laplante will look into
planning this.
-
Presentation
by Glenn Corbett, revised construction specifications for high-rise
buildings.
This suggested program is being kept on the agenda as a possible future
event.
Events in
other Sections:
-
2nd Fuel Cell
Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, 6/14-16, 20004, Rochester,
NY
-
2nd
International Microchannels & Minichannels Conference 6/17-19, 2004,
Rochester, NY
Website
and Webmaster:
Submissions to
the Website by members or student chapters should be in Front Page or a
Microsoft Word document.
Before items
are posted on the site, they must be proof read. Submit e-mail articles
to…
Lisa Laplante llaplant@nji.com
Richard Dolinsky dolinskyr@asme.org
Sid Goodman goodmans1@asme.org
Final approval
of submissions will be made by
Karen Ohland ohlandk@asme.org
Special
articles for the website are welcome.
See the website for other special events
Our website address is
http://www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Section
Officers:
Chair – Karen
Ohland
Treasurer – Arnold Pristernik
Secretary – Sid Goodman
Bergen/Passaic Subsection Chair – Richard Dolinsky
Morris/Sussex Subsection Chair – Ramesh Gulrajani
Essex/Hudson Subsection Chair – Boris Khusid
Future
Section Meetings unless otherwise notified:
Please mark
your calendar
Dates at Kraft May 20
June 17
Time of meeting will be at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted
Submitted by Sid
Goodman, Secretary
E-mail address: goodmans1@asme.org Phone no. (201)327-5158 | 