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Greetings Seaway Section members!

In August I attended the Section Officer's meeting at the MathFest in Madison, WI. During report-backs at these meetings, one always feels a sense of pride in the Seaway Section. This is for many reasons, including its vibrant biannual section meetings, and its active Seaway NExT program (currently ably managed by Jeff Johannes of SUNY Geneseo). Add to this the undergraduate student program which, under the leadership of Dereck Habermas of SUNY Potsdam, seems to be going from strength to strength! We share with other sections the difficulties associated with transmitting expertise when new section officers are elected, and the desire to find some way to increase participation in section meetings of all schools in the section - in particular some of the larger research universities. Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions!

Congratulations to Joe Straight of Fredonia, who was awarded a certificate of Meritorious service at MathFest. Congratulations too to David Brown of Ithaca College, who was presented with an Adler award - the award for distinguished teaching for beginning faculty. Please consider nominating faculty in your department for the Adler award (nominations are typically due at the national MAA early October), as well as for our Seaway Section Clarence Stevens distinguished teaching award! The chair of the Seaway distinguished teaching committee, Jim Conklin of Ithaca College, is currently accepting nominations for 2008 - 2009, with a deadline early in the New Year.

As you will recall, we changed the bylaws last year, in part to enable us to split the treasurer-secretary position into two separate portfolios. In the Spring we elected Gary Raduns of Roberts Wesleyan College as secretary, leaving Daniel Birmajer of Nazareth College as treasurer. This is already working extremely well. Thanks to Gary Raduns and Daniel Birmajer for keeping the section in good order!

At the business meeting in the Spring, the membership approved the purchase of a brick in the name of the Seaway section for the walkway outside the MAA Carriage House in Washington DC. The brick has been purchased. If anyone visits the Carriage House, please check in on our brick and ask how it's doing!

Our meeting for Spring 2009 is planned for April 3-4, at RIT in Rochester. Our Fall 2009 meeting will be at Fredonia, October 23-24. I am currently searching for a host in a central location for our Spring 2010 meeting. Please let me know if you have any questions about hosting a meeting, or think you just might be interested!

I most sincerely apologize that I will not be able to attend the section meeting in Siena; because of urgent family matters I will be traveling over that weekend. Thanks to Gary Towsley for graciously agreeing to run the meeting in my stead. Thanks too to local organizer Kris Farwell of Siena College for all his hard work for this meeting.

Good wishes, and I will see you at RIT in the Spring!

Margaret Morrow

Mathematics Department, SUNY Plattsburgh.

Past Chair Messages

• Spring 2008
• Spring 2007
• Fall 2005
• Fall 2003
• Spring 2000
• Spring 1999
• Fall 1998
• Spring 1998
• Fall 1997
• Spring 1997
• Fall 1996
• Spring 1996

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