AMATYC Comes To Us In 2008

Judy Williams, TCC
 

November 20-23, 2008, the annual conference of our national organization, The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, will take place in Washington, D.C. Put those dates on your calendar now. With a few hours drive you can take advantage of an outstanding professional development opportunity.
 

I’m especially excited because I’ve been appointed the Conference Local Events Coordinator. A colleague asked, “Just what does a Local Events Coordinator do?” As I have studied the AMATYC Policy Manual, I have learned that the job requires oversight of the following areas:
Explaining how to navigate to the hotel by air or car
Compiling local information on restaurants, sites, tours, weather, etc
Planning a Friday night reception/activity
Choosing the menu and table décor for Saturday breakfast
Staffing the hospitality room
Overseeing and outfitting a technology networking room
Creating signage/directions inside the hotel
Stuffing packets/bags
Proofing publications information
Designing a local web page
Fulfilling other duties as need becomes known
 

You can help in any of these areas. As conference time comes closer, I will be glad to sign you up to staff the information desk, host the hospitality area, or patrol the computer room for a few hours. If you feel compelled to volunteer to lead in one of these areas, let me know now and avoid the rush later.  J
 
As this newsletter goes to press, I have received an offer from Ann Loving, Randy Pittman, and Kathryn Wallo of JSRCC to organize the Hospitality Room. Thank you so much for stepping forward.
 
Who else is ready to help? Everyone is welcome, but we are asked to keep our AMATYC membership current as we work on the conference. This is a good idea, too, since this is the year our VMATYC membership list is compared to the list of AMATYC members from Virginia. If the intersection of the lists contains over 50 people, VMATYC gains an Affiliate Delegate; over 100 common members gives us two more delegates, and so on – why not think big? Last time we were so close at 43, let’s make it over the top this year. (Please forgive my digression to plug AMATYC membership, but the benefits are worth every penny with the conference, the journals, and the network of colleagues supporting you.)
 
Our first conference preparation assignment is to recommend to the AMATYC Executive Board a logo, theme, and color. One suggestion is to put the letters A-M-A-T-Y-C inside a line drawing of the Washington Monument with the theme “Washington, D.C. – a monumental place for mathematics”. Send your idea to jwilliams@tcc.edu.
 
I hope you feel the excitement that I do about Washington. Make sure you’re included in the crowd headed north November 20, 2008.
 
return to newsletter index