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The meeting was held in Normal, IL from 12:30-4:00pm.
Attending were Cherlyn Bradley, Fran Kravitz, Milt Levenberg, Avrom
Litin, Craig McLauchlan, Michelle Peterson, Marsha Phillips, Susan
Shih and Jackie Stewart.
1. We have received the contract from the State
Fair and must
pay $1400 by July 30th. Milt has received a letter from National
indicating that the grant money has been transferred to the Chicago
Section account. The Section will have it transferred to a new
account for the committee.
A sided (no windows) tent has been reserved from
Party Creations for
$600. In addition we have also reserved 4 fans, 5 8-foot
tables and 6
folding chairs for a total expenditure of $1279.75.
At this point we have $2680 of the grant spent.
2. Promos:
There was a misprint with respect to the cost of the least costly
bags. The ACS Hurray for Chemistry bags are now the least expensive.
Fran will ask for 500 free bags in addition to paying for
another 500.
Pencils only take 10 days for printing and can be ordered later.
A volunteer will make some display furniture for the tent. Fran
will
absorb the cost of the materials.
Fran has purchased 10 32-gallon tubs @$5.99 ea to store materials. She
will rent a truck to bring all the supplies down to Springfield.
Can we rent a storage unit there to keep them for next year? Jim
Shoffner is getting additional materials from National which will
be sent to Fran or Craig.
The layout of furniture in the tent was discussed and a tentative
one
selected. The dimensions of the information table are 4'x2'x3'
high. Susan will donate a stool for this table.
Display Boards:
Four 6' tall display boards, 2 hinged to form triangles with 2 ½'
panels and corked down to 2' from the ground along with 2 triangular
and 4 straight bases will be made. These boards need information that
will catch the public's eye. Some suggestions are forensics, pharmaceuticals,
cosmetics, food, ecology,
diversity in chemistry and chemistry of odors. Fran offered to
laminate the displays.
The following individuals/organizations will be asked to work on
displays.
Forensics - Chong
Food - Sara Risch
Pharmaceuticals - Abbott PR
Cosmetics - Unilever PR
Diversity - Chicago WCC
Budget:
Grant - $3000 from National ACS
Donation - $300 from Rock River Section
A solicitation letter to local companies will go out Monday. The
Sections need to solicit finds from area industries.
Volunteer scheduling:
Volunteers get free admittance to the fair.
Milt has the form now set up. He hopes to have it live on
the web by
Wednesday.
Hours each day are 9:30-7:30, divided into 3 shifts.
Craig has tentatively assigned committee members to assume overall responsibility for each day.
Demos:
Jackie will see about getting No Smoking signs. Fran is donating
a small light for the slime. Frank's company will
donate goggles and gloves. Frank will supply
5-gallon covered buckets for waste and will dispose of it. We suggested
a solvent can rather than the buckets for the organics. We need chemical hazard stickers.
Jackie ran 2 of the demos for the committee. For
static demos, various soda cans in water was suggested with a
sign asking Why? some float & others sink. We could have
the answer hidden beneath a flap.
Jackie needs polyvinyl alcohol and goldenrod paper for the demos. Craig
will supply the bromthymol blue. Jackie had various mole puppets and will supply the pattern.
AV:
Milt will talk to Richard Cornell about our needs for old computers.
Publicity:
We need to a press release out to the local papers. Ask Russ Johnson,
Chicago PR chair, to write one.
3. How can we distinguish the volunteers from the
public? For
$3
each, Fran can make T-shirts with American Chemical Society Illinois
inside an outline of the state. Craig will send a file
with the outline to Milt & Fran.
We need a sign for the front that can be rolled
up & will withstand
weather. On it, Illinois Sections of the American Chemical
Society in
black on white.
We will need some lights, preferably fluorescent,
power strips and
extension cords. The Chicago Section has several of the latter.
Does
the tent have an interior structure that we can hang the lights
from?
Do we need locks for the fans we are renting?
We should collect a list
for the teachers who come into our tent: name, address, email.
This will
be useful for follow-up notification of NCW activities etc.
On the CD for teachers, we should add info about
NCW, a map with section
boundaries, links to our State Fair page, National ACS, ACS Education
pages etc. Remove the contact info for the committee members.
4. Next meeting: Sunday, August 8th at 12:30, Julien Hall. ISU.
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