SECTION DIRECTORY PROJECT

2009 Summary of Activities

    Again in 2009, a directory of the Santa Clara Valley Section end-of-year membership was produced from the Section roster file downloaded from the National Office.

    A Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4 printer with a "Pro Collection" font cartridge was used. Programming was done in PowerBasic 3.20 (available from PowerBASIC, Inc.) to read information from the roster file, make necessary file format conversions, select home or work address and phone number, change the characters from all-upper-case to a more readable combination of upper and lower case, format the results column by column and page by page, and send them to the printer. Program listings are available from the Section Secretary on request.


    There were exactly 3291 records in the 2009 database, 344 fewer than in 2008.

    The directory ran to 39 pages for the version supplied to most Executive Committee members (4 pages less than last year); the Chair and Secretary received more detailed ones which ran to 56 pages (5 less than last year). The directory was distributed to the 17 members of the Executive Committee (officers, councilors, and alternate
councilors), to about 5 committee chairs and other non-voting members of the Executive Committee, and to no one else.

    A scan of page 32 (the page that has my own name) from the directory is shown below as a sample. The actual printed pages are clearer than the picture below indicates.

                                                                Karl Marhenke
                                                                             Secretary

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