Society for Technical Communication

University of Washington Chapter

Meeting Minutes

October 18, 2006

Where: Husky Union Building second floor, eating area

When: 3:05 – 4:05 PM

In Attendance: Rose Rosales, Jenny Becker, Sean Osterberg, Athena Epilepsia, Danielle Schechter

Events

• Pop! Pop! Meet and Greet
• 2:30-3:30 PM, Thursday, October 19, 2006
• Room: EE 303
• Questions for survey—planned and ready for tomorrow
  
  
• Winter Party
• Rose will try to go to Washington Activity Center (WAC) sometime to check out capacity
  
  
• Resume Workshop
• Engineering Writing Center has volunteered to hold resume workshop
  
  
• Meeting the Grad Students
• Tentatively planned for next week or the following week
• Will give candy and business cards; tape the cards to the candy
  
  
• Meeting with UWTC Department Head Judy Ramey next week
• Talk about Winter Party and responsibilities
• Theme: Silent Night
• Food: Buca di Beppo
• Personal invitations—both formal and informal
• RSVPing to people
• Find out about sitting capacity vs. room capacity of WAC
• Consider reserving a different venue for party
• Priority Waves for Winter Party RSVPing
• (1) Judy’s VIPs, (2) faculty & staff, (3) students, (4) alumni
• Reserve spaces for each wave to avoid running out of room
• Would make raffle for door prizes easier; write numbers on tickets and choose random numbers for raffle
• Find out about cark stock/ways to send tickets out