Brief Notes from December 2022 Section Meeting + Scholarships Now Available!

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Next Meeting is End of January, Beginning of February 2023.

An announcement note will be sent out.

Any ALASKA Section Member wanting to host a meeting,

Please contact us at [email protected].

Brief Notes (Bold) from the last

AWS District 19, ALASKA Section 125 Meeting

Held

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 – 11:30 AM AKDT

Online via Zoom

Dear ALASKA Section Members,

Hope had a nice safe healthy family holiday day season, and a better New Year.

Below is the brief notes (in Bold) from the last meeting.

Agenda:

  • Today in history; a date which will live in infamy – Pearl Harbor Day; Full Moon
  • Attendees – Creighton Moore, Treasurer (ACTING); Dennis Long, Chair (ACTING)
  • Treasurer Report – Creighton
  • REMINDER

National, District and Section Scholarship Opportunities was opened December 1st 2022, and Deadline for National, District and Section Scholarships is March 1st

For Scholarship info, Click on links below:  

  • AWS Alaska Section Bylaws – Discussed option, adopt Draft and amend for Alaska needs later; Need AK Section members input on path forward
  • AWS Leadership Symposium –
    Anyone Alaska Members having interest in attend Leadership Symposium and Instructor’s Institute;
  • 2023 AWS Instructor’s Institute – July 23-28
  • 2023 AWS Leadership Symposium – July 30-Aug 2

For a flavor of the 2022 leadership-symposium event/detail, click link below

aws.org/events/detail/leadership-symposium

  • Next meeting tentative schedule, January / February 2023 – Late Jan/Feb 2023
  • Any Alaska Section Members Announcements / Discussions –

Leslie Daugherty, Juneau AWS ALASKA Section Member, has an acquaintance CWI/Welder in Anchorage and both have interest in doing a project related to young people… maybe a ‘Women in Welding Day or similar’ in about April timeframe. If any Alaska Section Members have interest in helping/volunteering in their effort, or host a location for a presentation in the Anchorage area,

Please contact Leslie Daugherty @ (907) 465-8891.

Any comments, questions, please email me at [email protected].

Happy New Years to you,

Regards,

Dennis Long, Chair (ACTING)
AWS ALASKA Section 125
[email protected], email
https://awssection.com/alaska/ website
www.aws.org, website

NOTE: ACTING Section Officers are until these positions are filled by current AWS and Alaska Section Members for 2022-2023.