Annual Chapter Report Outline
Date of
report submission: May 7, 2007
Name of School/College:
Chapter name and region:
Gamma Tau, Region II East Coast
Delegate who attended the Rho Chi Annual Meeting:
Joseph Ohmer
Date Delegate’s name was submitted to Rho Chi: February 2007
Past year’s officers and e-mail addresses:
President:
Vice President: Kristin Norkus (knorkus@lecom.edu)
Secretary: Amanda Obermeier (aobermeier@lecom.edu)
Treasurer: Dan O’Neill (doneill@lecom.edu)
Historian: Sarah Gelles (sgelles@lecom.edu)
New officers and e-mail addresses for next academic year:
(If not yet elected, please indicate date of anticipated election and report names within one week of election)
President: Lauren Scorgie (lauren.scorgie@lecom.edu)
Vice President: Lisa Nocera (lisa.nocera@lecom.edu)
Treasurer: Amanda Tumsis (amanda.tumsis@lecom.edu)
Secretary: Deanna Macri (deanna.macri@lecom.edu)
Historian: Guo Min Li
(guomin.li@lecom.edu)
Chapter advisor’s name and e-mail address:
Jolene Bostwick (jbostwick@lecom.edu)
Introduction:
The Class of 2007 represented the
third group of inductees from the LECOM School of Pharmacy into the Gamma Tau
Chapter of the Rho Chi Society. Dr.
Jolene Bostwick, Chapter Advisor, along with President, Joseph Ohmer, were
instrumental in the planning and execution of service activities. Highlights from the past year include Poison
Prevention Programs at Wal-Mart and the
Meetings: Please provide information on meetings held - including dates of meetings, attendance, agendas and action steps for subsequent meetings.
A meeting was held on
Present were: M. Metzel, M. Trambley,
The meeting was opened by M. Metzel.
I. Congratulations to the new officers:
President: Joe Ohmer
Vice President: Kristin Norkus
Secretary: Amanda Obermeier
Treasurer: Dan O’Neill
Historian: Sarah Gelles
II. Induction ceremony
Thank you to Dean Tuttle for the induction ceremony.
Dr. Bostwick asked for comments on this year’s ceremony. Consensus was that it worked well holding it on the weekend as opposed to a week night.
M. Metzel explained that the remaining 5% of the 2007 class yet to be identified will be inducted with the initial 15% of the Class of 2008.
III. Fundraising ideas
A general discussion of fund raising ideas was held. Possibilities include:
· Travel mug or other personalized item.
Contacts: Frank Scicchitino of Emil Kraus
Ron Santos of Creative Imprints System
· Book sale – overused in school already
· Diploma frames
· Mortar and pestle or other gift (it was noted that the school will no longer provide gifts to graduates after Class of 2006)
· Casino night or some other similar event
· Dress down day (not allowed by LECOM administration)
Action Items:
· J. Ohmer – to contact Sara in book store and explore possibility of Rho Chi selling diploma frames.
· S. Gelles – to do email survey on what would be appropriate gifts to offer for sale.
IV. Service activities:
Tutoring was discussed with no decisions made.
Dr. Bostwick indicated that she
receives emails of possible service projects from Dr. Rigelski. She will pass these along to the membership
to volunteer. Run Around Erie will be
held
A meeting was held on
Present were: J. Ohmer, K. Norkus, S. Gelles, D. O’Neill, G. Rainey, N. Patel, J. Miller,
P. Green, A. Schmeider, S. Busuioc, W. Saghy, J. Magee, P. Parikh, H. Patel, Dr.
Bostwick, and A. Obermeier
The meeting was opened by J. Ohmer.
I. Fundraiser
G. Rainey arranged a “Max and
Erma’s™
Pharmacy
Action Items:
· A. Obermeier- to send email to “everyone” at LECOM a few days prior to remind them of the event.
· Each member- to pick up flyers from G. Rainey or Dr. Bostwick and distribute them to classmates, family, and friends and local businesses (may require permission of manager/owner).
II. Service activities:
Run Around Erie will be held on
Saturday,
Action Items:
· J. Ohmer and A. Obermeier volunteered
The first meeting for new inductees of the Gamma Tau chapter
of Rho Chi was held on
The meeting was opened by Dr.J. Bostwick.
I. Any new member interested in running for office may contact current officers.
President: Joe Ohmer (johmer@lecom.edu)
Vice President: Kristin Norkus (knorkus@lecom.edu)
Secretary: Amanda Obermeier (aobermeier@lecom.edu)
Treasurer: Dan O’Neill (doneill@lecom.edu)
Historian:
II. Induction ceremony
Dr. Bostwick asked for comments on
the upcoming induction ceremony. It will
be held at The Ambassador again this year.
Tentative dates are Saturday, March 31 or
Action Items:
· Determine date and time for the induction ceremony
Strategic Planning: What goals were set that relate to the Rho Chi mission?
In addition to the ideals set forth by the Rho Chi Society, the Gamma Tau
Chapter of LECOM School of pharmacy represents academic excellence and hopes to
motivate future students to pursue active membership in the Rho Chi Society.
Our Gamma Tau chapter strives to have a positive impact in our community and to
be a good neighbor to those in need.
Activities: This section is usually the main focus of the report. The chapter reports should contain detailed descriptions of all activities developed and conducted to further the society’s mission. It may contain a combination of activities within the college and/or university as well as activities that provide outreach outside the academic community. School-wide events that provide evidence of intellectual leadership (e.g., a sponsored lecture, symposium, poster session, etc.) may be included. Service activities for non-members such as tutoring may be included. It is recommended that students also provide at least one community service activity outside of the academic institution (e.g., volunteering at a long-term care facility, providing health information to patients/citizens in the community, etc.). The description MUST include whether these activities are on-going (if so, for how long) or are new initiatives.
In September, two Rho Chi students manned a water stop at Run
Around Erie. Run Around Erie is a 15K
run, 1 mile and 5K walk/run along
In October, two students from Rho Chi and two students from PSHP provided a poison prevention program at Walmart in honor of Pharmacy Week. This was a new initiative for our chapter, but has the potential to become a yearly event.
Three students from Rho Chi held a poison prevention program for 100 kindergartners from the Belle Valley Schools. This activity was a new initiative for our chapter.
Financial/ Budgeting: Please provide information on how your budget was determined and approved in order to support your chapter’s activities. Please include any fund-raising that was conducted to meet this budget.
The LECOM Chapter has an assigned treasurer who tracks all financial activities. The budget is determined based on a comparison to the previous year’s fiscal activities and a review of any anticipated new business for the Chapter. The faculty advisor is the coordinator of the budget approval process. A fund raiser was conducted in the summer of 2006. This fundraiser involved a local restaurant that agreed to donate a portion of the funds collected from patrons that presented a coupon indicating that they were dining in support of LECOM Rho Chi. The fundraiser was successful. In addition various LECOM student groups provide financial support to the Chapter. It is anticipated that fundraising and College support will continue to grow in the future.
Initiation Function: Please describe the initiation function, including when and where the initiation ceremony took place, who attended the function, information on the speaker (if applicable), etc.
The induction ceremony was held on
Evaluation/Reflection: Please provide a reflective paragraph that evaluates the effectiveness of your activities and ways to improve. Information that may be included in this section includes number of members participating, number of others involved in the activity (e.g., recipients of outreach), feedback from members and others who were involved in the activities.
Overall, our activities have been successful, but it is important that we get more Rho Chi members involved in each activity. It has been difficult this past year because a number of students were out of town/out of state completing our final year of rotations, and so were unable to participate. A way that we can help to solve this problem is to try to schedule activities earlier in the summer before the students leave for rotations. This would give more members the opportunity to participate, and should therefore make the events even more successful. Even though we had a limited number of students at each activity they were successful, and we had positive feedback from those involved.
Other information: If you would like to provide other information about your chapter that was not included in the above categories (e.g., development of a new website, organizing a regional meeting etc.), please add it here: