Spurgeon Dental Society
Minutes
March 26, 2002

In Attendance (19) Spurgeon: President: Danielle Tart, Vice President: Matt Barefoot, Treasurer: Rob Sanborn, Secretary: Marsha Black; Spurgeon Advisor: Mr. Tom Luten The rest in attendance was recorded on the attendance sheet.

Meeting called to order at 5:15pm by President Danielle Tart.

1. Spurgeon Awards Banquet: The banquet will be held April 4, 2002. Cash Bar at 6:30pm with the Awards Ceremony starting at 7pm. Presidents of each class asked to make an announcement regarding the banquet. Tickets are on sale during 1-2pm. Student's tickets are $25 and Faculty/Staff are $37.
2. Fall Picnic: Will be held September 7th and Oral-B will sponsor; Time will be announced at a later date.
3. Vendor Day: Discussion on whether to have vendor day on the same day as research day. Mr. Luten would like to set up a meeting with the research board members to discuss this further.
4. Student Lounge Renovations: Furniture and walls have done, still a few more renovations need to be done. The student lounge should be completed by Parent's Day, April 12th.
5. Donut Hour with Dean Stamm: Tentative date: April 17.
6. Student Newsletter: There is a Spurgeon Website in which we plan on posting the minutes of each meeting. www.dent.unc.edu/student/gov/spurgeon
7. Excused time-off for travel to National Meetings and for Interviews Proposal: Excused time-off for travel to National Meetings has been approved for those students in good standing. The interview proposal is still being debated.
8. NCDF: Kelly Almond is going to supply the goodie bags for boards.
9. Funds for Spurgeon to be increased: Rob Sanborn and Danielle Tart are working on this proposed increase.
10. Constitution: Nicole Scheffler and Danielle Tart have been working on revising the Constitution. Once done need to have 2/3 to approve in order to accept the revised constitution.
11. Luncheon -1st years: Marsha Black, Rob Stanborn and Matt Barefoot will be assisting in organizing the luncheon. Will need 5-6 people at luncheon from dental classes to talk to first years. Luncheon will be in August.
12. Notes-Hard Copies: Power points are being posted on the web.

1. Proposal - Matt Ryan: There was a written proposal made concerning the acquisition of updated ASDA Guides to Postdoctoral Programs. The Spurgeon Dental Society reviewed the proposal and voted. The proposal was passed.
2. Float for homecoming?: Mr. Luten said there has been a suggestion for the UNC SOD to become more involved and possibly doing a float for homecoming. Spurgeon Dental Society suggested there be a Social Committee that is encharge of this undertaking.
3. April 23-Next Meeting: The next Spurgeon meeting will be held in rm. 398A&B on April 23 at 5:15pm. A meeting for all Presidents with Mr. Tom Luten will be held April 24 in rm. 171 at 8:30am.
4. 1st year representation:
5. Apple Chill - April 21: This is not going to happen.
6. ASDA -palm sync info: There is away to hot sync information to a palm and is available to ASDA members. To join ASDA there is a membership fee of $60.
7. Office room for organizations: Danielle Tart is looking into this. We are currently sharing office space with the Mexican Project.
8. GPSF: There was 2nd yr. Dental student that volunteered to take this position. The representative will have meetings to attend once a month.
9. ASDA: There was a discussion concerning membership dues.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:30pm.

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