MINUTES: GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

DATE: November 26, 2000

MEETING PLACE: MOODY-WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY

The First Vice-President, Art Thompson, called the meeting to order at 7:33 p.m. There were 4 officers, 4 directors and 14 delegates present (5 of those 14 delegates were also officers or directors). John Kroll filled in as secretary for the night.

Handouts:

· 2001 Competition Schedule

· Treasurer's Report

Officer's Report:

· Secretary: The minutes from the 10/24/00 meeting were reviewed and approved.

· Treasurer: The Treasurer's Report was reviewed and approved.

Director's Reports:

· Print: Toledo Camera Club will judge the End of Year competition Saturday, Dec. 2 at 10:00 a.m. Next competition is set for Monday, February 26 at Motor City, provided a Print Director has been appointed.

· Color Slide: No report. Next competition is Thursday, February 15 at Avon.

· Nature Slide: Slides have been sent to Bill Dart in Arizona for the Saguaro Camera Club in Phoenix to judge. Next competition is Tuesday, January 23 at Grosse Pointe.

· 2¼ Slide: End of year judging may also be done by Toledo Camera Club. Next competition is Thursday, February 15 at Avon.

· Digital: End of year judging may also be done by Toledo Camera Club.

– Starting with the 2001 competitions, Digital Slides will be judged at Color Slide competitions. Judy Yaker will be the new Digital Slide Director. Next competition is Thursday, February 15 at Avon.

– Digital Prints will be handled by the Print Director beginning with the next competition, which will be Monday, February 26 at Motor City, provided a Print Director has been appointed.

– Creation of an "advanced" class for Digital Prints was approved. There will be 6 move-ups to the new advanced class in the Digital Print Division for 2001.

· Newsletter: The next issue should be ready for printing by this weekend.

· International Salon Competition: Next year's competition will be held Saturday, September 15, 2001. Entry fee will increase by $1.00. Directors are as follows: Color Slides - Jim Inkster, Prints - Ron Genaw (tentatively), Nature Slides - Doug Locke, Stereo - TBA. There were 697 entrants for the 2000 Salon.

Old Business:

· Banquet 2001: The banquet will be held at Macomb Community College, Building K, Room 301 on January 20^th. Tickets and maps were distributed to club representatives. Ticket cost is $25. John Kroll will scan the map and include it on the GDCCC web site and in the newsletter. Plans include using the print racks from Windsor to display EOY winners. VIP invitations have not been mailed yet, but will be sent as soon as the list is provided.

· Honors Committee: Committee members from Livonia, Shutterbug, Windsor, West Oakland, Avon and Grosse Pointe will meet following the council meeting tonight to review nominees.

· 2001 Competition Schedule: Approved as presented.

· GDCCC web site: Suggestion to add a secure member and email address list. Frank Andreae will send John information on how Motor City secured their information on their web site. Web hit/visitor summary report was made available.

· Election of Officers: Bill Buchanan, Art Thompson and Loretta Williams will continue in their respective offices through 2002. Joanne Snavely and Jim Paszkiewicz were elected as members at large for one year.

· 2001 Slide Invitational: Entry forms are now available and were distributed to council representatives. Deadline for entry is February 19, 2001 with judging to follow at 7:30 p.m. Monday, February 26, 2001 at Photo Guild.

New Business:

· Special Request: Two Detroit area students, Nicole Brown and Justin Wright, have been awarded NANPA scholarships to attend the NANPA Summit in Las Vegas from January 16-21. While there, they will receive instruction in Nature Photography from several professional nature photographers. The scholarship covers lodging, food, and instruction. Ted Nelson and Claudia Adams were asked to be local sponsors for the students. Ted would like to help provide $369 to each student for airfare and is looking for individual or club donations. For more information, please contact Ted directly by phone at 734-394-1261 or by email at NelsonTed@aol.com.

· Request for Rule Clarification: The current slide competition rules state that "Those 2" x 2" x 1/8" slides that are NOT acceptable in the Nature Slide Division and are not acceptable in the Electronic Imaging Slide Division are acceptable as Color Slides." At Nature Slide Competition #5, Pontiac entered a "Bumblebee on a Zinnia" slide, which was disqualified because it contained a "cultivated flower". Therefore, when the Pontiac directors subsequently had a "Butterfly on a Cosmos" slide, they entered it as a Color Slide, because they knew the Cosmos was a "cultivated flower" and the slide would not be accepted in the Nature Slide division. But, at Color Slide Competition #6, the "Butterfly on Cosmos" slide was disqualified because "it was a Nature Slide". A subsequent check with Skip Moody verified that it would not be accepted in the Nature Slide Division because of the "cultivated flower". John Kroll requested a list of known Nature Slide disqualifiers that club directors and the GDCCC Color Slide director could use so that it is not necessary to take every slide to Skip to have it disqualified as a Nature Slide before it can be submitted as a Color Slide. Skip said that anything with the "hand of man" in it or with a "cultivated flower" in it would be disqualified as a Nature Slide. Skip also requested that printed copies of the current Constitution, By-Laws and Rules be distributed.

· Darrell Gulin Presentation: Judy and Anita proposed a GDCCC sponsored seminar featuring Darrell Gulin. The seminar would be scheduled for either 1 day or 1 ½ days and could offer portfolio critique for a set fee ($15 for a 25 minute session). Approval was given for them to check it out.

· Trophies Needed: Floating trophies need to be returned.

· Adray Results: Names obtained at the Adray show were given to club representatives.

Next meeting:

· Thursday, February 1^st at 7:30 p.m.

· The March meeting date was not set.

Meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Diane Kroll, GDCCC Secretary

P.S. Many thanks to John for taking notes at the meeting!