December 21, 2010

Location

Conference Room D, 21 Penn Tower

Attendees

Drs. Asbury, Goldfine, Hess, Kefalides, McCarthy, MacGregor, Meadows, Myers, Schleyer, Seltzer, Steinberg. Julian Pugh (FAPD).

The meeting was called to order at 2:10pm by Dr. Kefalides and the minutes of the previous meeting were approved with a change of a statement made by Dr. MacGregor in the November minutes. Dr. MacGregor did not mean to object to the Emeritus Dinner, he simply meant that the Emeritus Event is mainly attended by the honorees and not many others. Dr. MacGregor suggested that the event focus more on the party aspect, emphasizing it as more of a social event for emeritus and senior faculty.

Update on the Communications Chair

Dr. Kefalides announced that he has found a new chair for the Communications Committee. The new chair will be Dr. Alan Myers. The executive council unanimously agreed in having Dr. Myers become the chair.

Committee on Naming Opportunity

Dr. Goldfine agreed to be the chair for this subcommittee to look in to the opportunity of having a room named after the ASEF group in the new structure that will be built between the John Morgan Building and the Johnson Pavilion. The goal will be to raise the money to have a plaque placed outside of the room. The minimum amount that needs to be raised is $50,000, however, that amount will only cover naming one of the smaller conference rooms. Dr. Kefalides and Dr. Goldfine will be meeting with Lisa Katz from the Development Offfice to discuss these plans. The idea will be that ASEF will send letters to other senior and emeritus faculty to solicit contributions. Dr. Asbury suggested that first, the executive council should make the initial contributions to create a nucleus amount of money, which would be initially a $1000 contribution from each of the council members. Dr. Goldfine is planning to send an email to the Board of Trustees entailing the plan for naming the room as well as announcing the nucleus fund.

Committee on Usage of Library

Dr. Kefalides announced that he was meeting with Carton Rogers from the Van Pelt library regarding workshops for senior and emeritus faculty in the library. There will be a series of workshops to help senior and emeritus faculty with new computer issues and programs. There will also be technology product training as well. The library facilities group is more than willing to help ASEF and PASEF and should be used as a resource. Dr. Kefalides also stated that the library group is more than willing to tailor workshops to the specific needs and requests of both ASEF and PASEF, train senior and emeritus faculty on current technology and anything else that would be helpful. The executive council unanimously agreed that this would be a good resource and a worthwhile endeavor to continue exploring.

Committee Reports

Service

Dr. MacGregor updated the executive council on the hospital visitation ASEF advocacy group. The effort will launch during the month of January. The admissions department has been alerted and has in turn made the patient services offices aware, as well. Dr. MacGregor stated that they currently have 10 volunteers to serve as advocates, however, he was hoping for 12. Dr. Meadows and Dr. Kefalides both volunteered to be the additional 2 members.

Luncheon Seminars

Dr. Kefalides commended Dr. Asbury on his superb job of setting up informative and interesting seminars during the fall. He announced that he will now take over for the spring seminars and has also spoken with Dr. Monge to come back on Friday, February 11, 2011. Dr. Kefalides has also spoken with the Chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (Dr. Bert O’Malley, Jr.) to do a luncheon on robotic surgery. Dr. Kefalides is currently waiting on the confirmation of the date and time. Dr.Kroch, Chairman of the Department of Linguistics has also agreed to help with the luncheon seminar by 1 recommending someone from his department as the speaker. Dr. David Eisenhower has also agreed to do a luncheon seminar based on a recent memoir about his grandfather. Dr. James Saunders has agreed to come and present at a luncheon seminar about the loss of hearing with age, the way it is diagnosed and treated. Dr. Kefalides is still waiting on the confirmation for the date and time of this seminar as well. Dr. Kefalides also updated everyone on having Dr. Becca Levy come to speak at the spring event. She has said that she is very interested and willing to come. Looking forward, the committee agreed that they should get the new dean for the School of Medicine (Dr. Jameson) as their guest for the fall emeritus event.

Membership

Dr. Steinberg said there was nothing new to report.

Headquarters

In the absence of Dr. Saunders, there was no report on headquarters activity.

New Business

Dr. Kefalides announced that the spring meetings of the executive council will continue to be on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from January through June. Dr. Kefalides said that he would send out an email with the future dates of the meetings. Dr. Meadows also announced that she is officially retiring and would like to invite everyone to her retirement party on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 starting at 4pm. Dr. Meadows will provide more details at the next executive council meeting. Dr. MacGregor suggested that everyone begin to start thinking of additional people that could be added to co-chair the subcommittees of ASEF.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:20pm. Respectfully submitted, Julian Pugh