Minutes of the General Business Meeting Sheraton Gunter, San AntonioTX Fall 2005 Meeting, October 13-15, 2005   After the luncheon, Sandra Westmoreland - President, called the meeting to order. Robert Champaign read the minutes from the 2005 spring meeting held in Los Colinas Texas.  SandraWestmoreland asked if there were any corrections or additions for the minutes, and then moved that the minutes be accepted and all were in favor.   Secretary Report: Robert Champaign reported onthe current meeting. We have 7 new regular members and 10 new student members, no new corporate members however, 22 corporate members have renewed their members in TSM this year. The student members are represented as follows:             NorthGarlandHigh School -- 2             TCU -- 4             University of Texas at El Paso – 2             TWU – 2          Sandra Westmoreland requested a motion that new members be accepted as active. It was seconded and all were in favor.   Treasurer Report: No report was given, the treasurer Martha Gracey was not present due to illness.  Bob Droleskey will get the report from Martha and have it posted on the TSM website in the very near future.    Program Chair Report: Jodi Roepsch reported we had 45 members and corporate members pre-register for the meeting, 33 regular/student members and 12 corporate vendors. In addition we had 7 walkup registrations for a total of 52 attendees. Jodi thanked all the corporate sponsors for the giveaway items that they donated that were given out in the registration bags.    The following sponsors made donations for the meeting: Micro Star Technologies Electron Microscopy Sciences FEI Oxford Instruments Gatan PGT Judi Ellzey   The workshop held Thursday October 13  was “Cryo-ultramicrotomy Applications in Biology and Material Science” presented by Gregory M Becker PhD, Sr. Product Manager for RMC Products and Boeckeler Instruments Inc.  There were 13 attendees at the workshop.   A social was held on Thursday evening sponsored by FEI and Oxford Instruments and the continental breakfast this morning was sponsored by Gatan.   Becky Holdford filled in for the originally scheduled invited speaker, Becky talked about the uses of dual-beam focused ion beam (FIB) tools in semiconductor FA.    We have a total of 22 platform presentations and 1 poster presentation. There are 13 students participating in the best paper competition.    The Spring 2006 meeting will be held April 20 – 22 in Ft Worth Texas at Alcon.  Plans are also underway for the Fall 2006 meeting, which will be held in the Dallas area in October.    Journal Editors Report: Camelia Maier reported there were 6 advertisements (4 color, 2 BW) in the journal. The advertisements were down because the vendors have a hard time getting funding to advertise in the fall because their budgets are used up. Camelia plans to do more history in future journals.    Election Results: The new president elect is Judi Ellzey, the new secretary elect is Tina Halupnik and the program chair elect is Anne Burke.    Old Business: The executive council will be reviewing the By-Laws and there will be an upcoming vote on the By-Laws. We were unable to get to this item in our council meeting on Thursday October 13th but we will be meeting and discussing the By-Laws this evening.    New Business: At our meeting on Thursday the executive council voted to change the student paper award, which is in honor of Dr. Arnott.  Now instead of just one student award we will be handing out three awards, $100.00 for 1st place, $75.00 for 2nd place and $50.00 for 3rd place.    We have a nominating committee now in place to identify a president elect, program chair elect and a treasurer elect. The committee is being chaired by the secretary Robert Champaign.  Robert asked all members to please let the committee know if you are interested in a position or if you know of someone that might be good for one of the positions.   Sandra Westmoreland thanked all for their attendance at the meeting and encourage all to attend the spring 2006 meeting that will be held at Alcon in Ft Worth.  Sandra asked for a motion to adjourn the meeting, the motion was made, seconded and all were in favor to adjourn.    Minutes respectfully submitted by: Robert Champaign, Secretary