Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Hello Animal Science Club!

Wednesday's meeting started off with a guest speaker, Dr. Culp, who is a UD ANSC Club Alumnus and Veterinarian in the Army Corps. Hopefully everyone enjoyed his presentation and found it informative! For those of you pursuing veterinary school, keep in mind the scholarship and funding opportunities provided by the Veterinary Army Corps! We also had two representatives from Huntingdon Life Sciences tell us about position and internship availabilities (www.huntingdon.com). Following our guest speakers, there was a short business meeting.

Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,029.30

Plant Sale
Plant Sale Forms were handed out at the meeting. Pick-up for the plants will be on May 11th.

Ag Day
Ag Day is next Saturday!! A sign-up sheet for shifts (set-up, general Ag Day, and clean-up) was sent around. Please email Carolyn at cschnek@udel.edu to sign-up for a shift if you weren't at the meeting. Also, because the Ag Day t-shirts were a little more expensive than we had planned, we're asking that members pay $5 for a shirt to help cover costs. You can pay for your shirt either at next meeting or at Ag Day.

Tour of Dairy
A few of our members helped give a tour of our dairy to two disabled women before the meeting. Despite a rocky start (flat tire), all went well, and the women were very appreciative. Nice job, guys!

Officer Elections
We will have nominations for next year's officers at the next meeting. So start thinking about positions that you would be interested in!

Banquet
Our Banquet will be on May 10th at Timothy's. We will send around a sign-up sheet at the next meeting. Dress for the Banquet is "nice"--aka, no jeans or sneakers. You don't have to get super fancy, but this is our chance to get dressed up a bit.. so have fun with it. Also, please send in your award nominations to one of the officers (not to someone you're nominating, though)!!!

Miscellaneous
Concerning the zoo trip for next semester, it looks like it's going to be too expensive to have a behind-the-scenes tour at the Philadelphia Zoo, so we're going to look into perhaps having Linda Pill show us around the Baltimore Zoo again. Also, we got a thank-you card from the AgrAbility speaker. She was very appreciative of all the money we raised for AgrAbility, and she will keep us posted on how our donation will be spent.

That's it for this week's minutes. See you all at next week's meeting on 5/26 at 5:30pm in MEM 111.

~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary

Monday, April 24, 2006

Hello Animal Science Club!

Wednesday's meeting started off with a guest speaker, Dr. Culp, who is a UD ANSC Club Alumnus and Veterinarian in the Army Corps. Hopefully everyone enjoyed his presentation and found it informative! For those of you pursuing veterinary school, keep in mind the scholarship and funding opportunities provided by the Veterinary Army Corps! We also had two representatives from Huntingdon Life Sciences tell us about position and internship availabilities (www.huntingdon.com). Following our guest speakers, there was a short business meeting.

Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,029.30

Plant Sale
Plant Sale Forms were handed out at the meeting. Pick-up for the plants will be on May 11th.

Ag Day
Ag Day is next Saturday!! A sign-up sheet for shifts (set-up, general Ag Day, and clean-up) was sent around. Please email Carolyn at cschnek@udel.edu to sign-up for a shift if you weren't at the meeting. Also, because the Ag Day t-shirts were a little more expensive than we had planned, we're asking that members pay $5 for a shirt to help cover costs. You can pay for your shirt either at next meeting or at Ag Day.

Tour of Dairy
A few of our members helped give a tour of our dairy to two disabled women before the meeting. Despite a rocky start (flat tire), all went well, and the women were very appreciative. Nice job, guys!

Officer Elections
We will have nominations for next year's officers at the next meeting. So start thinking about positions that you would be interested in!

Banquet
Our Banquet will be on May 10th at Timothy's. We will send around a sign-up sheet at the next meeting. Dress for the Banquet is "nice"--aka, no jeans or sneakers. You don't have to get super fancy, but this is our chance to get dressed up a bit.. so have fun with it. Also, please send in your award nominations to one of the officers (not to someone you're nominating, though)!!!

Miscellaneous
Concerning the zoo trip for next semester, it looks like it's going to be too expensive to have a behind-the-scenes tour at the Philadelphia Zoo, so we're going to look into perhaps having Linda Pill show us around the Baltimore Zoo again. Also, we got a thank-you card from the AgrAbility speaker. She was very appreciative of all the money we raised for AgrAbility, and she will keep us posted on how our donation will be spent.

That's it for this week's minutes. See you all at next week's meeting on 5/26 at 5:30pm in MEM 111.

~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary
Hello Animal Science Club!

Wednesday's meeting started off with a guest speaker, Dr. Culp, who is a UD ANSC Club Alumnus and Veterinarian in the Army Corps. Hopefully everyone enjoyed his presentation and found it informative! For those of you pursuing veterinary school, keep in mind the scholarship and funding opportunities provided by the Veterinary Army Corps! We also had two representatives from Huntingdon Life Sciences tell us about position and internship availabilities (www.huntingdon.com). Following our guest speakers, there was a short business meeting.

Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,029.30

Plant Sale
Plant Sale Forms were handed out at the meeting. Pick-up for the plants will be on May 11th.

Ag Day
Ag Day is next Saturday!! A sign-up sheet for shifts (set-up, general Ag Day, and clean-up) was sent around. Please email Carolyn at cschnek@udel.edu to sign-up for a shift if you weren't at the meeting. Also, because the Ag Day t-shirts were a little more expensive than we had planned, we're asking that members pay $5 for a shirt to help cover costs. You can pay for your shirt either at next meeting or at Ag Day.

Tour of Dairy
A few of our members helped give a tour of our dairy to two disabled women before the meeting. Despite a rocky start (flat tire), all went well, and the women were very appreciative. Nice job, guys!

Officer Elections
We will have nominations for next year's officers at the next meeting. So start thinking about positions that you would be interested in!

Banquet
Our Banquet will be on May 10th at Timothy's. We will send around a sign-up sheet at the next meeting. Dress for the Banquet is "nice"--aka, no jeans or sneakers. You don't have to get super fancy, but this is our chance to get dressed up a bit.. so have fun with it. Also, please send in your award nominations to one of the officers (not to someone you're nominating, though)!!!

Miscellaneous
Concerning the zoo trip for next semester, it looks like it's going to be too expensive to have a behind-the-scenes tour at the Philadelphia Zoo, so we're going to look into perhaps having Linda Pill show us around the Baltimore Zoo again. Also, we got a thank-you card from the AgrAbility speaker. She was very appreciative of all the money we raised for AgrAbility, and she will keep us posted on how our donation will be spent.

That's it for this week's minutes. See you all at next week's meeting on 5/26 at 5:30pm in MEM 111.

~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary

Monday, April 17, 2006

Hey Animal Science Club!

A big thanks to our guest speaker from Perdue! Following our speaker's presentation, there was a short business meeting. Here are the minutes from this past Wednesday's meeting:

Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,029.30

Next Week
Before next week's meeting on 4/19, a few of our members will be giving a tour of the dairy to a disabled woman. If you are part of this group, please meet at 4pm at the dairy. Danielle will send out a reminder email next week.
Also, we will be having a guest speaker at next week's meeting: Dr. Culp from the Army Corps. We hope that you will come out and listen to what's sure to be an interesting presentation from Dr. Culp!

Ag Day
This year at Ag Day we're not going to have any of our conventional crafts. Instead, we will let the kids mix feed to form rations for typical ruminants or nonruminants. There will be posters explaining the nutritional requirements for ruminants (sheep) and nonruminants (chickens), and the kids will be able to bring home their mixed feed samples. In addition, we will have animals, plant sale forms, and AgrAbility posters.
We discussed what we should do about Ag Day shirts--if we should buy extras and sell them. As per vote of the club, we decided that the club will pay for the Tshirts and that we will buy about 15 extra shirts (5 small, 5 medium, and 5 large).

Plant Sale Forms
We are still waiting to hear back from Dr. Emara concerning the varieties of plants we will be selling.

High School Quiz Bowl Competition
There was a committee meeting about the High School Quiz Bowl, and Jenna reported on the committee's decisions. The committee had decided to appease the department by limiting the Quiz Bowl Competition to 4H high school kids, who may be interested in coming to UD, so that we could double our competition as a recruitment tool. However, Dan Severson brought up some concerns about our target audience and proposed "recruitment tool" plans. So, the committee will discuss this further and report back to us on a later date. They will be meeting with Dr. Gelb soon to discuss this and other issues.

AgCC Officers Needed
AgCC, which is composed of representatives from the different clubs in the Ag College, is looking for new officers for next year. If you are interested in nominating yourself, please contact Amanda at akilby@udel.edu for an application form. Also, mark your calendars for the Advisor Appreciation lunch on May 18th from 12-2 in the Commons.

Banquet
The ANSC club banquet will be held on May 10 at Timothy's. Please send any award nominations to Amanda, Jess, or Carolyn. **Don't send your nomination to the person you're nominating**

That's it from this week's meeting. See you at our next meeting on Wednesday, 4/19 at 5:30pm in 111 MEM!

~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary

Friday, April 07, 2006

Hello Animal Science Club!

Thanks to Jen Puttress, here are the Minutes from this week's meeting:

Treasurer's Report
$1029.30

BusinessAgrAbility

Our guest speaker from last week is unable to come to Ag Day this year, and would like us to display some of the literature at our table at Ag Day.

Steve Cook

Because of our difficulty helping out Steve Cook this year (we got lost) we're going to have to reschedule for next semester.

Guest Speaker

Next week, we will have a guest speaker from Perdue. Please come and bring questions. He will be speaking about work in animal industry.

Dairy Tour

Our tour of the dairy for a disabled woman will take place on Weds, April 19 at 4pm. A sign up sheet was sent around to give the tour.

Guest Speaker

That same day, at our meeting, Dr. Culp, and Army Corps. vet will be speaking to the club.

Plant Sale

Plant sale order forms will be distributed as soon as we have all the plant names. This will be our major fund raiser for the spring, so everyone sell. Especially to faculty members! Another idea is to place adds in the UD classifieds. More about this will be discussed next week.Car WashThe car wash fundraiser for the spring has been scrapped in favor of concentrating our efforts on the plant sale to raise money.

Banquet

The ANSC club banquet will be held on May 10 at Timothy's. Please send any award nominations to Amanda, Jess, or Carolyn. **Don't send your nomination to the person you're nominating

**AG DAY

Ag Day is Saturday, April 29. We decided to have a display about feed for our education display. We will also have a "make your own animal feed" activity for kids. The animals we will be concentrating on are sheep (ruminants) and chickens (non-rum). In addition, we will have facepainting. The shirts will most likely cost $7-$9. The exact cost will be known by next meeting.

High School Committee

If you are on the committee for the high school quiz bowl or are interested in helping out, we will be meeting at 5, before the next business meeting in 111 Mem.

Delaware Humane Society

There was not enough info for the tentative service activity at the Delaware Humane Society, so the trip has been put on hold.

New Business

License Plate Rims

License plate rims from AgCC that say "UDel College of Ag and Natural Resources" will be on sale at Ag day for $5. If you want one before, contact Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.

AgCC elections

AgCC is holding elections for officers soon. If you live on campus, self-nomination forms will be distributed through mail, if you live off campus, they can be found in 104 TNS. Positions are President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and three Members at Large (Public Relations, Fundraising, Club Coordinator).

TA Positions

Dan Severson is looking for TA's for next semesters ANSC 111 lab. If you are interested, please email him at severson@udel.edu.