The
December meeting was held on the 12th at the Radisson.
John Robison of the Hoosier Safety Council was in attendance and
announced that the Annual Meeting will be held in West Lafayette, Indiana
this year at Cumberland Place. This meeting will be April 30th – May 2nd,
2002. There will be 91
exhibitors coming to Lafayette for this meeting.
He also announced that a Greater Lafayette Area Safety Council
member, Donna Majewski, has been elected to vice-president of the Hoosier
Safety Council. Great Job
Donna!
Paul
Felkey gave the Treasurer’s report.
Paul announced that postage had been cut about in half from 2000 to
2001 due to all of the information on the meetings being posted on the
website.
Randy
Beaver thanked all of the 2001 officers for all of their hard work.
He then swore in the new slate of officers for 2002:
| President: |
Paul
Felkey – Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc |
|
| Vice-President: |
Mary
Smith – Eli Lilly and Company |
|
| Secretary: |
Michelle
Byrd – Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc. |
|
| Treasurer: |
Jean
Lear – CTS RF Integrated Modules |
|
| Trustee: |
Todd
Priest – Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc. |
|
| Trustee: |
Dave
Hotler – Dynamic Corporation |
|
| Trustee
& Past
President: |
Randy
Beaver – Barron & Associates, Inc. |
|
Congratulations
to all new elected officers.
A
little background on Paul Felkey – Paul has spent the last five years as
Treasurer for the GLASC. Paul
received his Bachelor’s in Occupational Safety & Health from Indiana
University in Bloomington, Indiana. He
then worked for IOSHA for two years after college and then came to
Lafayette to work for SIA and has been at SIA for the last six years.
Paul
Felkey passed around a sign up sheet for 2002 for companies to sign up to
host meetings for 2002. Paul
also announced that the GLASC may begin to have meetings every other month
but this will be discussed at a later date.
The meetings will continue to be the first Wednesday of every month
for the Officer’s Meeting and the second Wednesday of every month for
the regular GLASC meeting.
Randy
Beaver then announced the guest speaker for the meeting.
Karl
Ahlrichs, Director of Business Development at Marsh, USA.
Karl
gave a power point presentation on Risk, Rewards, and Cannibalism –
Modern Lessons of the Donner Party.
A
brief summary of the presentation is to keep eight things in mind:
1)
Know the difference between perceived risk and actual risk
2)
Choose advisors wisely
3)
Don’t be trapped by
possessions or old ways of thinking
4)
Manage conflict and stick together
5)
Diversity is an asset
6)
No matter how prepared you are, luck and forces outside of your
control hold trump cards
7)
Adjust your priorities to the situation
8)
Don’t let egos interfere with choice of leader
The
meeting concluded at 1:30pm.
