April 2011

CHAPTER, REGION, AND INSTITUTE UPDATE

Much is happening at the Chapter, Region, and Institute levels—here is an update:

Chapter—Attendance has been good at recent Chapter Meetings. Last month?s presentation by our friend Archie Landreman was ex-cellent! If you haven?t been to a Chapter Meeting lately, come this month and re-connect with your fellow Chapter mem-bers. Looking ahead, we will be electing new Chapter officers in May—if you have an interest in serving the Chapter in a leadership position, let me know.

Region—the 2011 North Central Region Conference will be held in Branson, Mis-souri, and is just around the corner (May 12—14). Art Schmidt and I will be at-tending. See page 3 of this issue of Fox-Specs for more information on the con-ference.

Institute—the election results are in! Ross Mori of the Madison Chapter was elected Institute Director, and he will be representing the North Central Region at Institute meetings. I am confident he will do a great job. The proposed change to the Institute By-Laws passed, which means most members of CSI are now truly equal. There will no longer be “Professional” and “Industry” members—unless you are a Student or Emerging Professional Mem-ber, you will henceforth be known as a Professional Member, with all the privileges that entails.

I hope to see you at this month?s Chapter Meeting—special thanks to Glenn Dionne of American Engineering Test-ing for arranging the presenta-tion (Glenn is not a Chapter Member yet, but we are work-ing on him!)
See you at Van Abel?s!

David Atkins, PE, SE, CSI
Fox River Valley
Chapter President