UMARS General Meeting
September 15, 1993

Present: Harry Lobo, Tom Tessier, Michael Markmann, Paula Ehn, Victor Lam, Bruce Haugh, Arne Grimstrup, Patrick Wong, Greg Bergman, Fern Saurette, Herman Alagao, and Henry Yogendran.

Meeting called to order at 6:05pm in 207 University Centre.

1. President's Address and Farwell Speech given by Harry Lobo

i. Membership cards will be issued this year but have not been printed yet but shall be shortly.
ii. Membership Dues were increased to $5 for licensed members but is still $2 for unlicensed members.
iii. Password on the uumars UNIX account has been changed and will only be given to those interested in the account.
iv. Briefly described previous battle with UMSU over room space and special club recognition.
v. Reintroduced the idea of a newsletter and asked for volunteers. No response.
vi. Door combination will be changed in early October to up hold security.
vii. Briefly described past events and equipment available for members use.

2. Vice-President's Speech given by Tom Tessier

Dr. Kinsner will be offering a radio course that will allow for the attainment of a basic license and a 12 wpm morse code course shall be offered following the basic course. Classes start on Monday, October 3, 1993 at 4:00pm and will cost $50 including books. Three unlicensed members were interested.

3. Secretary/Treasurer's Report given by Paula Ehn

None.

4. Technical Manager's Report given by Michael Markmann

Briefly talked about packet station, repeater and available radios for membership use in the club.

5. Election Results

President: Tom Tessier (VE5 TRT)
Vice-President: Patrick Wong (VE4 PHH)
Secretary/Treasurer: Paula Ehn (VE4 MHZ)
Technical Manager: Michael Markmann (VE4 MJM)

Other Business:

i. Arne Grimstrup suggested that Gary Mills from Computer Services be asked to forward all inquires to info.umars to the uumars UNIX account. Paula Ehn will look into it.
ii. Arne Grimstrup also advised again that a letter should be sent to Computer Services to ask for donations of computer equipment that could benifit the club. Paula Ehn will look into it.

Meeting was adjourned at 6:26pm.

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