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Rick's photo op with President John Holgate

Crowd scene.
Right front: Education Manager Jeannie Bacon.
Left front: Webmaster and Employment Manager Robin Kelsey.
Middle, behind Jeannie: Competition Manager Gordon Brown, PR Manager Mindy Sichel.

On May 31 the chapter held its AGM (annual general meeting), concluding the year and acclaiming next year's executive. We covered the following points:

1. Lynda Simons is moving to BC. Lynda served in a number of positions with the chapter, including President, Competition Manager, Program Manager and Newsletter Editor. In addition, she taught courses related to technical writing at Algonquin College. In recognition of her service, the chapter gave her a painting of an Ottawa scene.

Lynda Simons with her painting

2. Our chapter won the Chapter Pacesetter Award for Region 1, for our special efforts during the competition.

Competition managers Gordon Brown and Tara Bourbeau

3. A summary of the financial report as of May 30 appears below. Rick Lorenz moved to accept the financial report, seconded by Theresa Peddle, approved unanimously.

This Year Compared to Last Year:

	This Year	Change from last year
Assets	$15,295.25	$1,430.42 higher (+10.3%)
Income	$24,116.16	$8,176.22 higher (+51.3%)
Expenses	$21,870.21	$9,576.90 higher (+77.9%)
Net Income	$2,249.95	$2,245.95 lower (-42.4%)

Theresa Peddle's photo op

4. The core executive for 2000-2001 appears below. Gordon Brown moved to nominate the executive, seconded by Tara Bourbeau, approved unanimously.

5. Theresa Peddle moved to cease nominations and acclaim the executive, seconded by Mindy Sichel, approved unanimously.

6. The executive is similar to last year, with the following differences:

7. The chapter has a continuing need for volunteers; those interested should contact Andrew Panciuk. More specifically, Gordon Brown requires volunteers for a Technical Illustration competition.

8. The theme for this year, proposed by STC President Mark Hanigan, is Adding Value. Our chapter is doing well through contributions by our members, evidenced by our Chapter Pacesetter Award.

9. Forthcoming events include a Pan-Pacific (Region 7 and 8) conference on October 19-22 in Hawaii, and a Region 1 conference in the fall of 2001 in New Jersey.

10. A number of program ideas were proposed for next year:

11. Scott Wahl, Visnja Beg and John Holgate described their experiences at the STC conference and what they learned. Scott talked about single sourcing. Visnja talked about Crossing the Chasm: focussing documentation on the "late majority" instead of the "early adapters". She also pointed out that you should feel free to switch streams if you want. John talked about writing for the audience, and said you should personalize the reader as much as possible. Each found the sense of community invigorating, and the information very useful.

Here are the rest of the AGM pics: