February 15, 2011

Location

Conference Room D, 21 Penn Tower

Present

Drs. Asbury, Delinka, Edwards, Heyner, Hess, Kefalides, MacGregor, McCarthy, Meadows, Alan Myers, Jeanne Myers Schleyer, Seltzer, Winegrad Rachael Berget (FAPD) Julian Pugh (FAPD)

Absent

Drs Goldfine, Heppenstall, Nachmias, Saunders and Steinberg

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Kefalides at 12:15 p.m. The minutes of the previous meeting (18 January) were approved pending an expansion to the Naming Opportunity in the new Education building, suggested by Dr. Meadows. This will be attended to by Julian Pugh.

Naming Opportunity Fund Drs. Kefalides, Meadows and Goldfine have divided the Executive Council into three groups, with Dr. Goldfine taking the non-MD group. The suggestion is a donation of $1000.00 per year over a period of five years. The amounts donated will be kept confidential. Dr. Winegrad pointed out that the term Opportunity Fund is already proprietary on the West Coast, so we should not capitalize our fund

ASEF/PASEF program on use of library facilities Dr. Sheldon Steinberg chairs a committee that includes Dr. Vivian Seltzer, Dr Nicholas Kefalides and Elsa Ramsden. A questionnaire went out to the membership which garnered 64 responses, Questions ranged over library facilities and possible workshops. Dr. Seltzer commented that the numbers are preliminary and that this was exploratory in nature, however, the response was enthusiastic. Marjorie Hassen at Van Pelt was instrumental in getting this preliminary survey carried out. Dr. Kefalides has already explored aspects related to the practice of medicine and the Medical School library already has such a program. There was a question whether spouses would be eligible to attend workshops/use facilities, but with Penn i.d. they would be able to take advantage. The Biomedical Library informed Dr. Kefalides that they could issue temporary passes to wives. For information on Biomedical Library Workshops, go to www.library.upenn./biomed and click on “Workshops”.

President Elect Dr. Meadows pointed out that the Council should be thinking about a President Elect. All agreed that the individual should come from Council. Dr. Meadows then proposed Dr. Asbury, who declined. Dr. Meadows then nominated Dr. Rob Roy McGregor; he will consider it carefully. Members should think about other candidates should he decline.

Letter to membership Dr. Meadows apologized for not yet writing to the membership to urge them to send their ideas for participation. She will send a draft around before the next meeting.

Committee reports

Service

Drs MacGregor and McCarthy reported on their efforts to visit Penn faculty and faculty family members who have been admitted to HUP. To date they have not made any visitation. However, the effort did not get underway until mid-January and it is possible they are missing some individuals. They will send an e-mail out to ASEF membership but would like to send it out to all faculty. Dr. Seltzer commented that when admitted to HUP, individuals are not listed as faculty; further, she said that to send a notice out to all faculty would cost $250.00 Discussion centered around means of contacting faculty. Dr. Edwards suggested putting an article in the Almanac, explaining the program; Dr. MacGregor replied that they had a concern about being overwhelmed. Dr. McCarthy asked if the information about judging the Penn Alexander Science Fair had been received; it had, and respondents were to get back directly to the school.

Luncheon Seminars

Dr. Kefalides reported that Dr. Janet Monge had presented a fascinating seminar that had been taped. However, Dr. Myers said that the camera used was not of required quality. There was discussion about lighting in the seminar room as well as acquiring a better camera. Future seminars : March 7 Dr. Bert O'Malley; April 11 Dr. William Labov; April 21 Shelden Hackney at 2 pm in Huntsman Hall; April 27 David Eisenhower; May 9 Dr. Jim Saunders. Dr. Meadows announced that on March 23, Dr. Metz will talk about protons at 4:30 pm in the Austrian Auditorium in CRB. This will be followed by a reception in the CRB lobby. In the Fall, the new Dean, Dr. Jameson, will speak to ASEF; date to be arranged but in the last week of October.

Communications

Dr. Alan Myers has worked with Julian Pugh on the new website. There was discussion regarding the incorporation of a bulletin board. Dr. Steinberg is going to talk to PASEF to see if there is interest in a bulletin board; Dr. Seltzer commented that Dr. Sternberg (Psychology) had expressed interest in a bulleting board.

Retirement Community

No further discussion on the retirement community in the absence of Dr. Saunders.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:20 p.m. Respectfully submitted Susan Heyner, Ph.D. Secretary/Treasurer