To: Region 3 ExCom
CC: Region 3 Section Chairs
Dt: 23 April 2012

Director's Report for April 2012
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It was with great sadness that I reported the passing of our friend and
long-time volunteer George McClure. George had just finished his efforts in
the successful SoutheastCon 2012 and had helped us improve our IEEE-USA/PACE
organization/status. There have been several remembrances of George sent to
the ExCom and section leadership and I know we will benefit for years to come
from his efforts as well as his status as a role model.

I have appointed John Montague to assume the duties of Professional Activities
Operations Chair as well as to be the IEEE-USA PACE representative. John will
perform these duties in addition to his work as the internal R3 PACE Chair. I
thank John for his willingness to assume this extra responsibility for us.

Congratulations and thanks to Donghui Wu and his SoutheastCon 2012 team for an
excellent conference in Orlando. I think we had a good meeting and everything
went well from the participants point of view. We had an exciting Awards
Dinner that everyone wanted to attend. Thanks also to the R3 gang (Sean
Haynes, Regina Hannemann, Josh Shank, Don Hill, Gregg Vaughn, and everyone
else who worked by the scenes to make this a productive and great event. Well
done, all!

The IEEE-USA Annual Meeting is being held in Cincinnati on 4-5 May 2012. John
Montague has done an excellent job overseeing the allocation of the PACE funds
for supporting Section PACE Chairs to attend the meeting. In addition to these
attendees, Region 3 has a number of members associated with the program in one
way or another:

* Jim Howard, IEEE-USA President 2012
* Mary Ellen Randall, Track Chair for the meting
* Jim Anderson, Keynote Speaker
* Ed Kirschner, Committee Chair and speaker
* Don Hill, speaker
* Ron Ogan, speaker
* David Green, R3 Director, speaker

We will have a Region 3 dinner on Friday night so if you are attending, please 
consider yourself invited to the dinner.

Follow-ups
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1. Our secretary Gregg Vaughn has posted the slides from the Region
   3 meeting to the web site.  If something is missing, let us know.  
2. We only have
   about 1/2 the BIOs from ExCom members so please take a minute and complete
   yours so that we can achieve full participation.  
3. Thanks to Gregg for capturing
   action items as part of the minutes.  We will continue our practice of reviewing
   them and rolling forward the ones not yet completed.
4. Please review websites.  We still have old content and a few bad links.
   Our webmaster will help you with the technical side of things but you are
   the content expert.  Area/Council Chairs -- please review your sections'
   sites and offer to help.  There is a vTools WebInABox tool for those
   who want a very low maintenance basic web site.
5. Our Newsletter Editor Bill Labelle has issued a call for articles for 
   the next newsletter.  The audience is the region's volunteers and 
   the focus is on sharing engagement successes.  Please consider writing
   an article as well as proactively seeking articles from your section(s).


Activities since last report
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* Attended George McClure Memorial Service
* Reviewed the 2011 (filed in 2012) L50 with Don Hill and Mary Ellen.
* Attended the Alabama Section's GOLD STEP/SPAC program.  Thanks to the R3
participants GOLD Chair Nick Smith and SPAC Speaker Butch Shadwell.  Kudos
to the Alabama Section and the UAB Student Branch for an enjoyable event.
* IEEE Board Teleconference (morning before the R3 meeting)
* IEEE-USA Member Engagement Committee Teleconference (afternoon before R3
meeting)