HOSPITALITY AND MEMBERSHIP

    The primary functions of this committee are to contact, welcome, and invite new members to participate in our activities.  Again this year the executive committee agreed to invite members new to our Section to be our guest at a Section meeting.

    To encourage our local students, two or more students from each of our area universities are given a free dinner each month.  The success of this idea depends on the student advisors "getting the word out" to their affiliate groups, so we decided to extend another free meal to the advisors in the fall of the year. One school has been very good in their attendance.

    Part of my responsibilities with this committee that has developed over the years has been to arrange the location and menus for the monthly meetings.  We are fortunate to have a centrally located hotel that provides a free meeting room with the purchase of our dinners.  Having the meetings at the same place gives some continuity to the programs, because the meeting dates have changed.  The program chairs have been using the ACS Speaker Service and that provides a problem with familiar dates because of the travel schedules of the speakers. Our monthly numbers are down because of this.

    The Summer Awards, wine tasting, and catered dinner, held on the Stanford campus, is always our most popular event and is fun to organize.

Sally Peters, Chair

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