SAAHJ General Meeting
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Southwest Mental Health Center
Host: Carol
Schliesinger-Cura
Members Present per sign in sheet: Melissa
Vela-Williamson, Kate Stouffeu, Fabiola Santiago, April M. Alcoser,
Veronica Serrano, Lorraine Pulido-Ramirez, Ernie Villarreal, Joe Sandoval,
Jason P. Olivarri, Maclovio Perez, Carol Schliesinger-Cura, Angela Ojeda,
Ed Tijerina, Hernán Rozenberg.
Welcome/Call to Order: President Maclovio Perez
called the meeting to order at 10:30 a.m. Maclovio thanked Carol Schleisinger-Cura
for hosting the meeting and asked her to give a brief summary about the Southwest
Mental Health
Center.
Approval of April Minutes: There were no motions
to approve the minutes.
Treasurer Report:
Ed Tijerina reported the following balances: Scholarship
Fund Checking, $4,271.59; Scholarship Fund Savings, $40,514.91; Operating
Checking Account, $1,911.34; Operating Savings Account, $5,166.80.
Ed mentioned that the Operating Checking Account
included a contribution from the San Antonio Express-News for $918.50. The donation was made possible due to the
sales of fiesta medals from the San Antonio Express-News.
Ed also mentioned that members have brought up
discussion in the past of changing our San Antonio Association of Hispanic
Journalist Scholarship Fund name. He
has discussed this with our CPA, who has suggested that we keep this name
legally and file a DBA (Doing Business As) in order to use San Antonio
Association of Hispanic Journalist Foundation for organizational purposes.
Mac questioned the status of our corporate taxes. Ed stated that he is in the process of
taking care of this with our CPA.
Old Business:
OLLUSA: SAAHJ has been given a new office
location. We have moved to a more
convenient and private office on the first floor of the OLLU main
building. Our office phone number is
431.3996, and voicemail is available.
Our website is up and active and remains www.saahj.org.
Banquet Update: Maclovio stated that he had a
meeting with the Cortez family, and they are extremely excited. The Cortez family commented that they are
committing to assist with the purchase of five tables, and will be
providing a mailing list.
The Cortez family will be providing photos for publicity
purposes. Roy Galvan of WOAI-TV has
volunteered to be responsible for the video, which will be shown at the
evening of the event.
A total of approximately 70 save the date letters have
been mailed. A committee for the
formal invitations will be meeting soon, which will be mailed out in mid
June. If you should have any
potential table sponsor references, please let Maclovio Perez or Veronica
Serrano know.
An official letter on the behalf of SAAHJ has been
mailed to Muñoz Public Relations regarding the mailing list State Farm was
requesting. SAAHJ will not be
providing State Farm with a mailing list of our members.
Carol gave members an update on the Silent Auction for
the event. She passed around a list
of past contributors to members to verify point of contacts. She is requesting potential auction items
that have a value of $500 or more to be incorporated into a top 10 list of
auction items. Current contributors
on this list are Southwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, Bjorns, and
Gibson Guitars.
Maclovio asked members for suggestions on how to bring
more Latino culture to the event (i.e. decorations, desserts).
SAAHJ Scholarship: Robert Luna is the Chair of
the Scholarship committee. The
deadline is May 29th.
Judging of the entries will occur in June.
High School Writing Contest: Bertha Lopez is the
Chair of the Writing Contest committee.
The deadline was extended to the end of May. Maclovio has received 12 more entries
from Health Careers HS and Harlandale HS.
Maclovio would still like to have 5 to 10 more entries.
Ed Tijerina motioned to talk about revisiting how to
market the writing contest better next year; Hernán seconded the
motion. Motion was approved.
Webmaster: Roxanne is updating the website on a
regular basis. E-mail for SAAHJ is
up and active. Maclovio mentioned
that he was given three keys to our new office.
Student Section Activities: Student Liaison
Francisco Vara-Orta passed around a brochure he produced for the SAAHJ
Student Chapter. He mentioned that
he has been communicating with students and teachers via e-mail.
Francisco will be providing five students to assist at
the SAAHJ Banquet.
Publicity: Maclovio
mentioned that Elaine Ayala would be writing an article in the SA Life
section of the San Antonio Express-News about the event. Other suggested media outlets to pitch to
were La Prensa, the San Antonio Business Journal, the Hispanic Business
Magazine, and the Conexión.
Joe suggested that we
display boards at the Cortez family restaurants announcing SAAHJ presenting
them with the Henry Guerra Lifetime Achievement Award, and with banquet
information.
Poynter Session – May 22-23, 2004: Ed Tijerina
mentioned that the Poynter Session is a two day conference and is the only
one being held in the Southwest this year.
Currently 200 individuals have registered for the conference, which
will be located at the Guenther Hotel.
For more information a link to www.poynter.org
is on www.mysanantonio.com.
OLLUSA Journalism
Mini Camp – June 14-15, 2004: OLLU is
requesting three print journalists to participate in its first journalism
mini-camp with approximately 10 students in attendance. Maclovio will follow up with potential
volunteers. Joe Sandoval and Ed
Tijerina are tentative volunteers.
New Business
SABJ Community Publicity Workshop –
Co-partnership: SABJ hosts a traditional
publicity workshop for the community each year and would like SAAHJ to
participate. A motion to contact
Melissa from SABJ with a full proposal on SAAHJ participating was approved.
Announcements:
SAAHJ
Officer Nominations – June General Meeting: Nominations will take
place at June 19 general meeting.
Elections will take place at July 17 meeting.
Adjournment:
The
meeting was adjourned at 11:50
a.m.
Next Meeting:
The
next meeting will be on June 19 at Tito’s Restaurant on S. Alamo,
across from China Latina.
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