BOARD MEETING
Aug. 9 2008
12:00 PM
1. Financial and Membership
Update
$2467.02
as of 8/09/08
(not
including $165 to Astronomical League $250 for insurance)
30 paid members with about a dozen at monthly meetings
2. 50th Anniversary
celebration
Dinner Saturday Sep 27, 2008 (for now) at the Norwell Council
on Aging
Alternatives:
Louis Gentile will check using the
Tenney Doble will check the BR Restaurant in
Pictures and other historical records:
Bill Luzader and Paul Grueter will meet at Louis
Gentile’s on
Sunday August 17 at 1 pm to work on club history
PowerPoint
3. Possible club trips:
Almost any weekend - StarPort in NH
Rockland StarParty near Arunah Hills and Stellaphane in
August 2009
4. Discussed purchase of a LCD
video projector ($600 and up) for the club.
Wait and use borrowed projector until price decreases -
months
5. What to do with the
home-made club telescope (12 inch reflector)
Louis Gentile will test the waters for selling online
6.
Paul Grueter suggests that a computer program AMSCO
will help the observatory project at
7. Future speakers for Wednesday meetings:
Renewed club member, Michael Myers (computer teacher)
1:15 pm adjourned to PICNIC