Hospitality and Membership

    The primary functions of this committee are to contact, welcome, and invite new members to participate in our activities. New members are welcomed by letter and periodic items in the newsletter.

    To encourage our local students, two or more students from each of our area colleges are given a free dinner each month.  The success of this idea depends on the student advisor "getting the word out" to his or her affiliate group. The new affiliate advisor at San José State University is better at encouraging the students than his predecessor was, so more San José State students have been attending.

    Santa Clara University has been very consistant in their attendance over the years.

    One responsibility that this committee has assumed is 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, since we cannot always schedule them on the third Thursday of the month, which is our "standard" meeting time. Having the same meeting day and date each month has improved the attendance a little when we can do it.

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


Anshul Samar             Playing Game
                                                 Anshul Samar describing                Executive Committee members Mark Kent and
                                                 the game he invented,                    Abby Kennedy playing Elementeo in the
                                                 "Elementeo", at the                        after dinner tournament
                                                 February dinner meeting
                                                 held at Cañada College
Research vessel        MBARI Scientist
                                       Research vessel "Point Lobos" at the                      Carol Sakamoto of MBARI explaining her
                                       Monterey Bay Aquarium Research                          research
                                       Institute (MBARI), where our joint meeting
                                       with the California Los Padres Section
                                       was held
                                                          


                                                                                         Sally Peters, Chair
                                                                                         Hospitality and Membership Committee

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