Treasurer Elections and Constitutional Convention

Hello Everyone,

A reminder that our next meeting Monday, October 5th is both the date of the election for Treasurer and our Constitutional Convention. The election will be held first. Candidates will give brief speeches then answer club members questions. After which ballots will be cast and tallied. Once the election is complete the Constitutional Convention will begin. Debates will be held on all the articles and any desired amendments will be made. You can find a copy of the draft Constitution at the bottom of the blog.

Hope to see you all there,
Rebecca H.
Secretary

10/05/09
7:00pm
Herter 601

Minutes 09/28

The professor chat on the 28th with Prof. Appy was both interesting and very enjoyable. He discussed memorable interviews from his book Patriots, the process of collecting oral history, the purpose and focus of his book and other topics related to the Vietnam War and Oral History.
The club would like to extend our deepest thanks to him and hope that he will speak to the club again in the future.

-Rebecca H
Secretary

Meeting 09/28

Monday 09/28
7:00pm Herter 601

Professor Appy will be speaking to us about his book on the Vietnam War.

Also Nomination forms for treasurer are due.

Hope to see you there,

Rebecca H.
Secretary

Nomination Forms

Reminder if you wish to run for the open Treasurer position nomination forms are due next meeting (09/28).

Thanks,
Rebecca H.

Meeting Minutes 09/21/09

The club screened the film Miracle at Santa Anna and people who volunteered as tour guides went out and practiced giving tours.

Minutes- 09/14/09

Hello,

The first History Club meeting was a great success, thank you all for attending. There where 62 people present in total at the meeting! The meeting consisted of introductions (Name, Major, Favorite Dinosaur) and an overview of the Club and its activities. Including the new Constitution, meeting structures, the Veteran's History Project, Hunted Tours and Tableing.

It was also announced that sadly our Secretary Diana will be stepping down and a special election will be held on October 5th to fill her position. Information about running can be found on the side (of this blog).

Also the activities for the next three meetings where anouced: 09/21 - Movie Night- "Miracle at Saint Anna" (Meeting will start at 6:00), 09/28 Faculty Chat with Prof. Appy and 10/05 Constitutional Convention and Special Election. More information on these events will follow.

In addition people where ask to volunteer as tour guides for the Hunted Tours the first of which will be given on 09/26 for UMASS parents during parents weekend. People where also asked to table for the Club during the week of September 21st, if you are interested in doing either and did not specify so at the meeting please contact us via email.


Thanks
-Rebecca H.

First Meeting!!!

Hello,


The History Club will be hosting its first meeting on Monday September 14th at the usual time and place, 7:00 Heter 601. The meeting will consist of introductions, a description of the activities of the club and plans and new policies for this year. We hope to see all our old members there and to welcome many new ones!

See you there,

-Rebecca H.

Summer Greetings

Hello I hope everyone is having a great summer and is psyched to come back to History Club in the fall.

There are lots of things planned for the coming year. The clubs first meeting will be on September 14th at 7:00 pm in Herter 601 and the meeting is open to all.

The club will be continuing work on the Veterans History Project with a provisional date for the interviews set as November 15th. The club will also be hosting its annual Hunted Tours of campus around Halloween and during parent’s weekend in September. Faculty Chats, monthly History Movie Nights and history related Board Game nights will continue at the weekly meetings.

Updates will continue throughout the rest of the summer and if you have any questions or suggestions for the coming year please feel free to email the club officers at umasshistoryclub@gmail.com.

Thanks,

Rebecca H.

Secretary

Elections!!!

Elections will be held at the next and last meeting on the 11th. The candidates for each position are as followed.

President:
Dan McDonald

Vice President:
Igor Galis
Zachariah Clark
Yianella Blanco
Bryan Rizza

Treasurer:
Diana Chase

Secretary
Rebecca Hoell
Sara Eglitis

Public Relations
Caitlin Hayes

There will be pizza at the meeting as well as voting and other merriment.

Herter 601
7:00 PM

Meeting April 4th

The Club will be watching Kite Runner and the meeting will start 6:00 pm.

Also this is the last day to turn in nominations forms.

Herter 601
6:00 pm

Meeting Monday April 27th and News

Mr. Andrew Dausch, a doctoral candidate and instructor here on campus will be coming to speak to the club.

Officer election for fall '09 will be held on the May 11th with nominations to be turned in the two meeting prior. You can find the nomination from at the bottom of the blog. Members may run for all positions but the Current President, Treasurer and Secretary will be running again. The Positions are President, Vice-President, Treasurer Secretary and Public Relations.

There is now a new tentative date for the Veterans History project May 7th, also a time and place the Amherst History Museum (on Amity Street) from 9-3pm. If you where at the original planning meeting we do have that list but anyone else who is interested in helping out please send us an email to umasshistoryclub@gmail.com. You will not need to volunteer for the whole day we are planning in running shifts.

Thank you,
Rebecca H

Herter 601
7;00pm

Preliminary Constitution

The Preliminary Constitution for the History Club has been posted at the bottom of the blog please review it and email us any comments or concerns you may have.

Thank You,

Rebecca H
umasshistoryclub@gmail.com

T-Shirt Slogans

These are the Slogan ideas people came up with at the meeting on the 13th please comment and suggest any you may think of.

History Club-The Common Era

"Stuck in the Past"

History - You can dig it!

Front of shirt- "Stuck in the past?" Back of shirt- "I can dig it!"

History Club- "Better than the Roman Empire"

History Club- "We like dead men"

"We did build Rome in a day!"

Thanks

Rebecca H

Minutes for April 13th

Hello,

I apologize that it took me so long to get these up. At the meeting last Monday the club both played trivia and discussed possible ideas for club T-shirts for next year. The trivia was a lot of fun and covered several different periods of history. The T-shirt Ideas will be posted latter today and every one please feel free to comment on them and add any new ones of your own.


In other news there is no meeting tonight even though we had a Monday schedule today.

Hope to see you all next week.

-Rebecca H

Meetign Monday April 13th

The meeting this week will be a trivia night as well as a discussion of ideas for new history club T-shirts.

Hope to see you all there,

7:00 pm
Herter 601

Veteran's History Project

Dear History Club!

The History Club is going to participate in the Veteran's History Project. The Veterans History collects the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. This has the potential to be an interesting and life changing experience as you interview World War II veterans and hear their stories, but it can only be done with YOUR help!
So, we are asking for donations that will go toward the purchase of stamps and envelopes so that we can ask the veterans to meet with us. If there is extra money, it will go into the history club account as a donation and we will use it for the future events and trips that keep the history club alive.

This is an exciting opportunity for you, as a member, and a benefit to the entire History Club

Thank you in advance,

Umass History Club Treasurer

Meeting Minutes for April 6th

The planning meeting fro the Veteran's History Projects today went very well. Details where hashed out about how we will be contacting the veterans and a date was set for the interviews. The date is Thursday April 30th and the place will be announced by the end of this week.The event will be all day but people will be able to sign up for sifts once we have a handle on how many veterans we can expect to participate. It was also decided that for this first series of interviews will focus on WWII veterans exclusively. Volunteers will be needed to help out with stuffing envelopes in the next week or so, an exact time and date will be forthcoming soon.

Over all it was a very successful meeting and thanks to every one who attended!


P.S. The History Club now has an email address so if you need to contact the club for any reason the address is umasshistoryclub@gmail.com!!!

Meeting Monday April 6th

Hello,

The meeting this Monday is going to be a planning meeting for the Veterans History Project. We will be discussing exactly what need to be done and figuring out how to obtain the materials that will be needed. If you are interested in helping please be there.

Thanks

Herter 601
7:00 pm

Movie at 6:00

The Movie tonight will start at 6:00 not 7:00 doing to its length. As usual there will be pizza.


Herter 601
6:00 pm

Movie March 30th

Hey History Club! The History Club will be screening King Arthur (2004) this Monday at 6pm in Herter 601! This movie takes a non-traditional look at the mythical King Arthur. Come for pizza, friends and a good time!
-Dan McDonald History Club President

We will also be talking about the Veterans History Project.

Herter 601
7:00pm

Meeting Minutes (03/23) and Veterans' History Project

Hello,

The risk tournament night went well last night with various people showing their skill at world domination. Next meeting on the 30th we will be watching a movie the poll, although incorrectly titled, is still open and will be till Wednesday. If you have not voted please do.

The History Club will also be beginning work on the Veterans’ History Project created by the Library of Congress. This project is an effort to document the experiences and stories of veterans from WWII and the wars since. The Library of Congress has a very detailed site that fully explains the project and allows you to peruse the collection so far the link is http://www.loc.gov/vets/. Updates as well as requests for help will come at the coming meetings as a few details are worked out. The Project will require volunteers but the time commitment will not be overwhelming likely a few hours here and there and an afternoon for the actual documentation of the stories once a month or so.

Meeting March 23rd

Hello,

I hope everyone had a nice break and is excited to return to history club! The meeting this week will be the risk night we missed previously due to a snow day. We have three risk boards but if anyone has their own or any other board games they would like to bring it would be greatly appreciated.
The poll for the movie night has been reopened, due to the fact that we miss calculated the date the movie will now be shown on the 30th so if you have not voted please do.

Thanks and hope to see you all there

Herter 601
7:00pm

Meeting March 9th

Hello,

Sadly we missed the meeting last week because of snow but we are back this week. Prof. Audrey Alstadt will be coming to talk to us she is a specialist in the non-Russian ethnic groups within the former Soviet Union and Head of the History Department . We will also be talking about a community service opportunity for the group. Food will be served

7:00 Herter 601

Meeting Febuary 23!!!!

Hey all another exciting history club meeting tomorrow the 23 i hope every one will be there!!!


We have a couple of things on the agenda. Mostly this is going to be a social and "blue print" meeting. We are going to do some fun history activities to try to bring the group together and also put forward ideas for future meeting and events. If anyone has any ideas about things they would like for the club to do this semester please bring them. O ya and THERE WILL BE FOOD! =)

Hope to see you all there!!

Information for Monday February 23

History Club hopes that everyone had a restful and productive President's Day!

Our next meeting will be February 23rd and we hope to have a professor chat.

Please ask your professors and TA's if any of them would be interested in talking to us about history!

Leave a comment on this post with any ideas you have regarding doing something else if the chat doesn't work out, as well as the names of any professors that would be willing to come in and talk with us!

See you monday!

Movie Night 2/9/09

Congratulations to Rebecca Hoell for becoming our new Secretary!

...
History Club had a successful Movie Night tonight; we watched Saving Private Ryan. Be sure to check back on the blog for our next Movie Night Poll coming soon!
Movie suggestions welcome.


We also want to get suggestions for Professor Chats. If you know a history professor you’d like to come talk to the History Club, let us know! (Related fields, like classics are also acceptable ideas)

See you next meeting!

For the Position of Secretary

We will be voting on the History Club’s Secretary soon.

Candidates for Secretary:

Rebecca Hoell

Matthew Keheler

Patrick Whittle

While there is no formal speech required, all candidates should be ready to tell the club why they’d make a great secretary.

We will be using paper ballots, so bring a pen or pencil!

Also, we will be watching a movie on Monday, so vote for your favorite in the poll!

Saving Private Ryan
The Last Samurai

The Patriot

Amazing Grace

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a good first week of classes!
Our first meeting of the term will be Monday, February 2nd at 7pm in Herter 601.

We will be discussing our plans for the semester including movie nights and professor chats.
We will need someone to fill the position of Secretary on our board of officers. If you are interested in filling the position come to the meeting to find out more!

Hope to see you all there!