From: Butch Shadwell [butchs@mediaone.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 5:37 PM
To: r3-excom1998@ieee.org
Subject: FL Council Report

To: IEEE Region 3 Executive Committee
Subject: FL Council Report for October 1998
From: Butch Shadwell, Chair
Date: October 21, 1998


The Florida Council has had two meetings to date that have been fairly well
attended.  We met at SECon and once again on 19 September, also in Orlando.

We have taken a position to try to minimize expenses, as our principal
source of funding has been declining of late.  Meetings are scheduled to
meet specific needs as much as possible.

A special training session has been arranged for November 21 at the request
of the section chairs present at the last council meeting.  If I get
information that this session will have an inordinate travel expense
associated with it, I will request funding from Special Projects to help
defray the cost.  Jim Beall has generously agreed to serve as the main
instructor for this training.  I hope that we get some of our attendees to
also take advantage of the Student Chapter training that will be held at the
same time in the same building by Pat Donohoe.

In the last two years I have been making a concerted effort to visit all of
the sections in the state.  I call it my "Section Trek".  I have been able
to provide technical programs to student chapter and section meetings on
these occasions.  I recommend this program highly to the other area and
council chairs, as a way to help less rebust sections feel a part of the
larger organization.

Our council elects new officers at the end of each calendar year.  If I am
not selected to serve another year as the Florida Council chair, I wish to
express my pleasure at having had this opportunity to contribute at the
region level.  I found it to be universally true, that active members of the
IEEE are some of the best people in the world.

Respectfully submitted,
Butch Shadwell
(904)223-4465
https://www.se.mediaone.net/~butchs/