Thursday, February 26, 2009

Animal Science Club Minutes 2/25/09

I. Treasurer’s Report:
o account: $1059.79

II. Baltimore Aquarium trip
o Saturday, March 14th
o Leaving from Lot 19 at 10am, no later
o If we get a group of 15+ people, the rate will be $11.95 per person, but with a dolphin show it will be $15.95 per person.

III. Ag Day Shirt design
o The design chosen will be a cow and chickens with the saying “Brown Chicken Brown Cow” on the back, with the circular crest on the front left.
o The colors will be a light blue shirt with brown writing and pictures.

IV. Announcements
o Dean of Students Forum: Friday, February 27th from 12–1pm in the Townsend Commons for a free lunch, speech, and Q&A session.
o MANRRS speaker: March 5th at 5pm in Perkins Williamson room. “If I knew then what I know now”.
o AgCC meeting: March 9th at 7pm in 049 Townsend. There are lots of openings on the AgCC executive board to run for!

V. We wrapped the meeting up with committee meetings, where future events were discussed within each committee.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Animal Science Club Minutes 2/18/09

I. Treasurer’s Report:
o account: $1059.79

II. Ag Day information
o The theme this year is “Discover the Path to a Greener Tomorrow”.
o T-shirts: If you would like to draw/create a t-shirt idea, please have them done by next week’s meeting. You can either email them to Katie (kkoenig@udel.edu) or simply bring them in. We will be voting on the designs and colors then.
o Animals we will display: Dairy cow and calf, sheep, chickens, and chicks.
o Demonstrations will include: Sheep shearing, sheep hoof trimming, cow milking.
o Activities will include: Face painting and a balloon animal hour.

III. If you have not picked up your sweatshirt, Lorna has them. If the weather is nice, they will be available at next week’s meeting. If you would like to schedule a time and place to pick it up from her, please email her at lorna@udel.edu.

IV. Announcements:
o MANRRS meeting: Thursday, February 19th at 5pm in Trabant 206.
o Collegiate 4-H meeting: Sunday, February 22nd at 7pm in Trabant food court.
o AgCC meeting: Monday, February 23rd at 7pm in 049 Townsend.
o AZ interest meeting: Wednesday, February 25th at 7:30pm at TCBY on Main Street.
o Dean of Students Forum: Friday, February 27th from 12–1pm in the Townsend Commons. There will be free lunch, a speech, and a Q&A session.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Animal Science Club Minutes 2/11/09

I. Treasurer’s Report:
o account: $1067.79
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II. We went over the requirements to be an active member. To do so, within the spring semester you must:
-Attend at least 75% of the meetings
-Attend at least one fundraising activity
-Attend at least one service activity
-Work at least one shift at Ag Day

III. Important dates for the spring semester:
o February 16th – AgCC Spring Social in the Townsend Commons from 6–9pm. There will be pizza, coffee, hot chocolate, snacks, and a movie.
o February 27th – Dean of Students Forum from 12–1pm for the presentation and Q&A session.
o February 27th – Leave for NESA
o April 25th – Ag Day!
o May 20th – Last day of classes and the club banquet

IV. Committee meetings were held. The following are the ideas each committee had:
o Fundraising: Car wash, Main Street fundraiser, Friendly’s fundraiser
o Service: Relay for Life, MS Walk (May 3rd), help at Steve Cook’s farm, help at a therapeutic riding center
o Social: End of the year banquet, pot luck dinner or out to eat, support AgCC at Grotto’s Pizza (March 11th)
o Pre-vet: Guest speaker, UPenn vet school panel, Baltimore Aquarium trip
o Livestock: Guest speaker, trip to the UD milking parlor, zoo trip

V. Sweatshirts
If you have not yet picked up your sweatshirt, you can pick it up at the next meeting. If this does not work for you, email Lorna at lorna@udel.edu and schedule a meeting time.

VI. Other Announcements:
A 65lb pure black lab is in need of a home desperately due to moving owners. If you want more information on adopting “Valentino”, please email Jessie at jessilou@udel.edu.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, February 18th
It will be held in 123 Memorial Hall at 5:30 pm.
See you there!