Chair's Corner

Greetings from the 2004-2005 Executive Council of your Houston Section! Continuing in the spirit of the previous council we have a quite a few goals that we hope to accomplish this year:

• Complete the transition to the new section website
• Improve overall communication with our members
• Continue to provide professional and technical development avenues for our members
• Establish a strong network of leadership to ensure continued success in the upcoming years for the Houston Section of AIAA

The 2003-2004 Executive Council made great strides towards accomplishing its goals from the previous year. They began transitioning to our new website and made great improvements in communicating with members. They also had several successful events sponsored by the Technical Committees. The council organized several well received programs related to the Century of Flight. Additionally last year's Executive Council picked up several National awards in the "Large Section" category in recognition of their outstanding efforts:

• 1^st Place – Outstanding Section awarded to Past-Chair, Michael Oelke
• 1^st Place – Career Enhancement awarded to Professional Development Chair, Jesus Reyna, JR
• 1^st Place – Communications awarded to Chair-Elect, Steve King
• 2^nd Place – Membership awarded to Membership Chair, Elizabeth Blome
• 1^st Place – Harry Staub Precollege Outreach awarded to Precollege Chair, Joy Conrad King
• 3^rd Place – Public Policy awarded to Public Policy Chair, Lynn Nicole Smith
• 1^st Place – Young Professional Activity awarded to past-Young Professional Chair, Bradley S. Files

We have some big shoes to fill as we strive to meet our goals for the year, but I feel that we won't have any problems accomplishing those items. We have a lot of motivated people on Executive Council committed to reaching out and engaging our membership. We are looking forward to the challenges of the new term and a successful and productive year!

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