Hey everyone, here are the minutes for our meeting on 9/6

Approval of Secretary’s Minutes from last week

Treasurer’s Report
account- $693.06
We are also looking to change banks from WSFS to either Citizens Bank or Delaware National, both of which have no maintenance fees for checking account, something we had trouble with in the past.

Dues
Club dues are due to the treasurer on Sept. 27. New members pay $15 and old members pay $10.

Newark Community Day
Newark Community day is Sunday, September 17. It is a community street fair event. We use this event to raise funds for a charity to be decided on later. Last year we gave to Louisiana Humane Society. We need a table and chairs, so if anyone has a table and some chairs, please email me at jenp@udel.edu.
We are planning on having a fishbowl toss. Winners would get a coupon redeemable for a goldfish at a local pet store. Price has yet to be decided, but some possible numbers would be $.50 for a toss and $1.50 for five tosses. We signed up for shifts during the meeting. They are as follows:
9:30-11:30
11:30-1:30
1:30-3:30
3:30-5:30
Erin McDowell
Michelle Pasawicz
Lisa Brody
Matt Mullin
Amanda Kilby
Erin Stough
Allison Mecaughey
Chelsea Berdolt
Lorna Dougherty
Genia Pultorak
Haley Tammany
Danielle Smarsh
Dawn Lenihan
Tanya Mejia
Janine Poreda
Jen Puttress
Shannon Thomas
Kendra Daniels

Stacy Green
Jessica Donnelly
Nicole Hughes


Kaitlyn Lutz
Allison Goodman



If you would like to help out for a shift, please email me. We would like more people at our middle shifts, especially members who have done community days before. Also, please come with ideas for a charity for our next meeting.

Cowtown Rodeo
Cowtown is a rodeo held in south Jersey. It was decided we would be going on September 23. There is a fee to get in, but if there are more than 20 people going, we can get a group discount. If you are interested, please email me with you name and if you can drive a car, and if so, how many people. Also email me if you signed up, but have since decided you can’t come.

Baltimore Zoo
We are trying to get a trip to the Baltimore Zoo organized. We are trying to in touch with Linda Pill, a former student. They no longer do behind the scenes tours, but there are besides the scene tours done by docents. If we decide to go by ourselves, the fee would be $11.50 if we have a group of 20 or more, or $15 if there are less than 20 people. The trip has been tentatively scheduled for mid October.

Ag Carnival
Ag Carnival is a competition sponsored by AgCC where all ag organizations compete against each other in competitions such as tug-of-war, pie eating, and pumpkin chucking. It is being held on Saturday, October 7 this year. Each group participating is in charge of sponsoring an event. Animal Science Club traditionally sponsors both a physical event, and a charity auction to help AgrAbility. AgrAbility is an organization that helps disabled farmers in the Delmarva area. Since the auction is our event, we need to publicize well in the community, and decide what we want to auction. Last year, our auction item also was part of our event, peddle tractors. Please bring ideas for an event or auction item to our next meeting.

Committees
At the end of the meeting we voted on committee chairs and then broke into committee meetings. All active members must be on a committee.

Fundraising Committee
The fundraising committee is chaired by our treasurer, Danielle Smarsh. There most important thing right now is deciding on who to donate to from our Community Day donations. They are also thinking about getting local farmers to bring/donate pumpkins at our Halloween event for children to paint. They were also thinking about doing clean up at places like Dovar Downs and after football games to get paid for our time.

Pre-Vet Committee
The pre-vet committee is being co-chaired by Vincent Baldanza and Tom Hart. Right now, they are thinking of possible speakers, such as a bird/wildlife vet, and equine vet, or a possible trip to Camden Aquarium.

Social Committee
The social committee is being co-chaired by Chelsea Berdolt and Matt Mullin. Right now, the social chairs are helping to organize the trip to Cowtown, and a possible social event at Kilby Cream ice cream parlor with a tour around the dairy farm. They are also thinking of ice breakers to do at the beginning of meetings so everyone gets to know the new members.

Livestock Committee
The livestock committee is being chaired by Lisa Brody. They are thinking about a possible speaker from Hatfield.

Service Committee
The service committee is being chaired by Erin Stough. The service committee is planning service activities at Delaware Humane and possibly having a blanket and food drive for dogs and cats. They are also thinking about going to schools to talk about the animal science major to those who may not know too much about it.

Other News
Animal Science club is looking for two volunteers to be our representatives at AgCC. Meetings are every other Weds (or Weds as needed) at 4:45. A ride will be provided to Animal Science Club after. If you are interested, please email me back. The position will be given out on a first come basis.

Australia Study Abroad this winter. Dr. Saylor and Dr. Barber will be taking a group to Australia this winter and are still looking for those interested. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Saylor at bsaylor@udel.edu. Freshman are welcome. The deadline is Sept. 25, so please hurry so your spot is not taken. Check out the UD study abroad page. The application is also here. http://international.udel.edu/studyabroad/programs/database.asp?PWDID=392 this is the page for the ANSC program.
http://international.udel.edu/studyabroad/default.asp and this is the site for all of international studies.

The animal science club has a website. It should be updated this weekend. Check out pictures from last year! Information should be up to date soon! http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/ansci/index2.html

Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you next week
~Jen