B.C.A.A.S. MEETING MINUTES
December 8, 2005
President Dave Brown called
the meeting to order with 20 in attendance. . He reviewed the highlights of the
past year, including the sale of the two vintage telescopes that netted $2,300.
There were also numerous programs done for school and scout groups, Nolde
Forest, Kaercher Creek Park and Blue Marsh Lake. He gave a pen and pencil set to
Ron Kunkel to recognize him for all the talks he gave this year and to Barb
Geigle for hauling the telescopes to Georgia.
Dave read a letter he
received from Eleanor Sweeney of DCNR. She was very impressed with our program
at Nolde Forest and is interested in setting up a trip to Cherry Springs in the
spring. We will discuss this further.
Dave and Dan Davidson
discussed their trip to Mrs. Capiotis’ home to inspect a mirror grinding machine
that she offered to the club. They came away with 2 truckloads of mirror
grinding supplies at no cost.
Upcoming Events:
Our speaker for January
will be Chuck Kunesh of LVAAS on exploring the Solar System. Ray Harris, also of
LVAAS, will be the speaker for February on historical documents in astronomy.
Ron will get more details. For March, we may have a professor from Albright
talking on SETI. Linda suggested getting Ruth Daly back to talk about what came
before the Big Bang.
Ron announced that he is
resigning as program chairman; Gene Salvatore volunteered to take over. Thanks
Gene!
Barry Shupp opened the floor
for nominations for the election of officers. There were no new nominations, so
the current officers were unanimously re-elected: Dave Brown - President, Bret
Cadmus - Vice President, Linda Sensenig - Treasurer and Barb Geigle - Secretary.
The meeting was adjourned
and everyone enjoyed the selection of goodies brought in
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Geigle, Secretary