Minutes of the 58th Meeting of the Board of Directors,
Meeting of the Fellows, and Open Meeting of the Members
In conjunction with The 1999 ASME Mechanics and Materials
Conference held in Blacksburg, Virginia, the combined
Meetings of the Board, the Fellows, and the Members were held
on June 27, 1999. These minutes were taken during the entire
meeting, but are submitted as those of the Meeting of the Board.
Members present were Robert Haythornthwaite, Robert Heller,
Dusan Krajcinovic, Dean Mook, Francis Moon, Charles Taylor, and
Chien Wu.
1. President Bogy being absent, the Meetings were called to order
by President-elect Krajcinovic at 13:20 EDT in Donaldson Brown
Continuing Education Center on the campus of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University.
2. F. Moon moved to accept the Minutes of the 57th Meeting,
which was held in Anaheim, CA on November 19, 1998 at 14:00
PST, D. Krajcinovic seconded the motion, and the motion
passed unanimously by voice vote.
3. D. Mook reported that the Academy has 723 paid
Members and 136 Fellows.
4. R. Heller reported that the Academy appears to be in
reasonably good financial shape with a surplus of about $38,000.
The full report is attached to these Minutes. R. Haythornthwaite
moved to accept the report, F. Moon seconded the motion, and
the motion passed unanimously by voice vote. There followed
a discussion about what to do with the surplus, if there is any.
A suggestion was made to invest it in stocks. No action was taken.
5. R. Haythornthwaite reported on the publication of the
latest additions to the serial entitled Applied Mechanics in
the Americas, which contain the extended abstracts from the
Sixth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics and the
Eighth International Conference on Dynamic Problems in
Mechanics, which were held together during the first week of
January 1999. AAM applied to the Library of Congress to
identify the Proceedings of the PACAMs as a serial and has
received an ISBN. The proceedings of the next PACAM will
be the first to use this number. The full report is attached
to these Minutes. Haythorthwaite reported that he did not
have good contact with the editorial committee.
6. D. Mook, the North American Chairman for PACAM VII, which
is planned for Temuco, Chile, reported that there had been
some progress in organizing. He said that he was concerned
that not many people would be interested in travelling to the
south of Chile on their own. It was suggested that a tour be
arranged. (Since the Meeting, D. Mook asked the Chilean
organizers to see if they could find a tour or travel
company familiar with this region that would be interested
in organizing such a tour. So far he has not heard from them.)
7. H. Espinosa sent an e-mail containing a report on the
status of Mechanics. This report is attached to these
Minutes. There was some discussion about the frequency of
reporting the expenditures for Mechanics. R. Heller said
that frequent, somewhat detailed reports are necessary to
satisfy the IRS. (Even though AAM is a nonprofit
organization, it must file a tax return. An earlier failure
to do so resulted in a fine.) There was also some discussion
about whether to rely on a website entirely and drop Mechanics
or to continue as we are doing. The consensus was that having
the redundancy is good. No action was taken.
8. F. Moon reported that now that he has become the President-elect,
a new Director has to be chosen to replace him. (Since the
Meetings, B. Tabbarok, the Canadian Director passed away and
so two replacements are needed.)
9. There was no old business.
10. New Business: F. Moon brought up the possibility of having
AAM act as the lead agency in applying for a $50,000 grant from
the National Science Foundation to "Conduct a Workshop and
Write a Planning Document on Mechanics at the Beginning of the
new Millenium". An information sheet is attached to this
report. R. Heller moved that AAM act as the lead agency and
that F. Moon and D. Krajcinovic prepare the proposal to NSF.
C. Taylor seconded the motion, and the motion passed unanimously
by voice vote.
There was a brief discussion of what to do with members that
join during the year. The current policy is to send them
back issues of Mechanics, if any remain at the time when
they join, and to charge them half of a subscription if
less than six months remain in the year. No action was
taken, and the current practice will continue.
11. D. Krajcinovic was installed as the new President of
AAM replacing D. Bogy. There was a unanimous motion,
second, and favorable voice vote to thank D. Bogy for
serving as President during the past year.
12. The Meetings adjourned at 15:30 EDT.
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