IEEE Region 3 Sections Congress Coordination Report for SECon 2004

Sections Congress 2005 is coming.  Sean Haynes and Butch Shadwell are
acting as facilitators to make sure that we get 100% representation at
Sections Congress from Region 3.  For those that may be unfamiliar, it
is a meeting of delegates from every section in the world done once
every three years.

Sections Congress is October 14-17, 2005, in Tampa, Florida at the
Tampa Marriott Waterside.  The host section is the Florida West Coast
Section.  Having this meeting in region 3 is not only a great honor,
but a great opportunity for our sections to participate at a level
that is not usually possible.

Last year I sent email to all the R3 section chairs reminding them to
save money in the budget to send a delegate(s) to this conference in
2005.  Typically, the section ends up covering about 1/3 of the travel
costs.  Depending on where you are located, this may be as little as
$100 or as much as $700.  For those sections that can afford it, it is
good to send more section members to the conference.  There will still
only be one primary delegate.

The Tampa Section has a huge project to put the world congress of the
IEEE.  Region 3 asks that all sections help defray the organizational
costs by making a contribution to the support fund.  We are suggesting
that each section contribute $2 per member grade or higher as of
January 1st.  If your section finds this figure difficult to do, we
will gratefully accept whatever you can do to help.  Make
contributions to:

Charles Hickman
Attn: Section Congress 2005 Support
3244 Burning Tree Drive
Birmingham, AL 35226

Butch Shadwell ( b.shadwell@ieee.org ) is the coordinator for all
sections in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Jamaica, and Mississippi, and
Sean Haynes ( s.a.haynes@ieee.org ) is covering Virginia,
Kentucky/Indiana, Tennessee, North and South Carolina.  We will be
regularly directing updates and reminders to the section chairs until
we get the names of the primary delegate to Sections Congress.  So if
section chairs want to get less email, let us know the delegates name
soon.

Here is a link to the Sections congress PowerPoint slide show that
Tracy Hawkins has done at headquarters:
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/e-conf/sc05/R3SC05Pres0104.ppt

Respectfully submitted,

Butch Shadwell
Sections Congress Co-Coordinator