Hello Animal Science Club.

Here are the minutes from Wednesday's meeting:

Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,174.38
The Allocations Board gave us $100 for the Hayride, which will go toward the various expenses for the stations. Also, we are still working on getting New Member certificates from the Block and Bridle website. So for the new members, you will hopefully receive these before the end of the semester.

Hayride Committee Reports
Jason Peiffer, a Plant Science major from Alpha Zeta, came to the meeting and told us about the stations that AZ is working on. AZ will have a Salem Witch Trial station, a Dracula station in the hayloft of the Nutrition Barn, and one of their members will be dressed as a monk and greet everyone on the hayride as they first start off on the route.

As far as the ANSC Club stations, here's what we're doing:

1. There will be a mini-station by Allen Lab, where Carolyn will be dressed up as a little girl running around ripping up stuffed animals. We're also going to have a lot of bloody doll heads on spikes right by the road. This station is just meant to be really disturbing and creepy.
2. Next the Hayride will come to Jen Puttress's station near the woodlot. The driving force behind the scariness of this station is definitely the use of chainsaws. There will be people tied up to the fence screaming, and others will be running around with chainsaws (with the chain off, of course). If you have any chainsaws that Jen can borrow, please email her at jenp@udel.edu.
3. We're doing another mini-station by the corn field. This one is going to involve Robert's truck and scary people standing in front of his brights. (Trust me, when a person stands in front the car's headlights, it produces one eerie effect!)
4. Next stop is Amanda Pisano's station. This one will be right where the road turns left, heading down to the Beneficial Insects building. Amanda's station is based on the legend of the Goat Man. This legend involves a government experiment that went wrong, producing the evil Goat Man, who goes around chopping up pretty girls.
5. The next station is Allison Jervis's station, which will be right by the Beneficial Insects building. Her station involves a girl who turns into a scarecrow. There will be straw, body parts, and lots of general scariness.
6. The last ANSC club station is at the Nutrition Barn (opposite to AZ's Dracula station). This is Jay Tobias's station, which is based on The Ring. Sam Sack will be playing the part of the creepy well girl. This station was a hit two years ago when we did it... so let's hope for another success!

The budgets for the stations were due at the meeting. Carolyn and Jen will be shopping for the supplies, and they'll hand them out to the station leaders at next week's meeting. Also at the meeting, we signed up for kiosk shifts. In order to further publicize the Hayride, we have a kiosk in Trabant on 10/20 from 11am to 2pm. If you'd like to help out at the kiosk, please email me at jesshall@udel.edu. Lastly, we decided that we will have a run-through for the Hayride at 6pm on Friday, 10/20 (right before the actual Hayride starts running). Station leaders, your stations must be set-up and ready to go at 6pm on Friday. It is up to you to make sure all of the props and such are ready at your station before this time.

Committee Reports
Social: Kahunaville last week was lots of fun, and everyone really enjoyed the line dancing. We're planning a restaurant trip for Nov. 2nd. However, we haven't decided on a place to go yet. Some of the ideas mentioned were Lonestar, Hibachi, and TGI Friday's. If you have any other ideas, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu. Also, Sara Daub informed the club about Friendly's Family Fun Night. If a club registers ahead of time, they can get 10% of the profit that Friendly's makes between 5-9pm on a given Family Fun Night. This could be an excellent social/fundraising opportunity for ANSC Club, and we will look more into it.
Service: If you haven't paid up your money for stuff you bought at the AgrAbility auction, you must do so soon! We also talked about moving the the club meeting to another night of the week in order to better accommodate an AgrAbility speaker. (We'll get back to the club on when the meeting would be moved to.) Also, the club will be volunteering at Steve Cook's Farm. Steve Cook is a UD Alumnus, who is also a disabled Farmer. We've helped out at Steve Cook's Farm in the past, and the club members got to do some really fun stuff, like weighing piglets, helping halter break calves, and even chasing after goats. The tentative volunteer date is November 12th, but we will get back to you once things are more finalized.
Livestock: With Regionals coming up in February (it'll be in Amherst), the club members really need to start thinking about whether or not they want to go. In order to prepare ourselves for Regionals, we want to have a livestock judging practice some Saturday in November. We talked about maybe incorporating the livestock judging practice with the volunteering at Steve Cook's farm... but before we start judging other farm's animals, we'd like to have some training with livestock judging on the UD Farm. Also, to prepare ourselves for potential Quiz Bowl questions, we are going to start having practice questions at our meetings.
Pre-Vet: Dr. Marshall will be our guest speaker at the November 16th meeting. We also talked about getting Richard from Dairy to come in and talk to the club about careers other than in Veterinary Medicine. Also, the Pre-Vet committee decided that instead of going to the Plumpton Park Zoo, we'd like to go to the Philly or Brandywine Zoo. The tentative date for our Zoo visit is Saturday, November 5th.
Fundraising: The Fundraising committee will be contacting Dr. Emara to set up plans for our Plant Sale. The Club decided that we will be doing the Plant Sale again, because although we didn't do so well with it last year, we traditionally make a lot of money with it, and it has the potential to be a really good fundraiser. Dr. Emara donates the plants, and all the club has to do is help her pot the plants and then be responsible for selling them at Ag Day.

Alright. That's it from Wednesday's minutes. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:15 in 037 Memorial. Hope to see you all then!