ASQC Chapter 511
Minutes
3 October 1996
1. Attendees
Harvey Shaw 703-769-3877
Gail Symons 703-379-0470 (h) 703-602-1564 (w)
Bill Casti 800-604-6149
Dallas Frederich 703-321-7221 (h) 703-750-4273 (w)
Walt Mendus 703-354-5932
Roger Schaffer 703-361-3422 (h) 703-892-2740 (w)
Linda Lassiter 703-734-1477 (w)
Mark Jones 703-620-8267 (w)
Roger Semplak 703-491-8227
2. Approval of September Minutes - approved
3. Treasurer's Report
Beginning balance was $15,921.34, income $990.00, expenditures
$928.48 for a balance of $15,982.86.
4. Committee Reports
a. National Quality Month - No report
b. Student Activities - Met with Dean Otten at Marymount's Loudoun
campus. Received permission to leave 50 student membership
applications to display with their other materials. Could not obtain
additional from ASQC headquarters.
Called Loudoun County Administrator, Kirby Bowers, to see if he had
any interest in pursuing the community implementation packet discussed
at the prior meeting. Did not reach him but would like to discuss the
idea with the board. Loudoun County applied for the 1995 U.S. Senate
Productivity & Quality Award for Virginia (SPQA) in the state & local
agency category.
Chair's updated information is fax: 603-620-8481; e-mail:
jones_mark@prc.com.
c. Publicity - no report
d. Membership - no report
e. Historian - no report
f. Education - no report
g. Electronic Media - All section officer and committee chair
e-mail addresses are changed with the domain name changing from
quality.org to asqc0511.org. For example, the Chair's e-mail address
was Chair@quality.org; it is now Chair@asqc0511.org. Data was
provided on the number of times the various sections of the
Quality.org website were accessed.
h. Program - The following schedule of programs were provided:
Nov 1996 Speaker: Joseph Carr
Organization: Consultant
Topic: Process Quality in Process Improvement
Dec 1996 Speaker: Santa Claus
Organization: Whoopee Inc.
Topic: Party
Jan 1997 Speaker: Gerry Smedinghott
Organization: Watson Wyatt & Company
Topic: Quality in the Managed Health Care Field
Feb 1997 Speaker: Joseph Petrone
Organization: Montgomery County Schools
Topic: Quality in Teaching
Mar 1997 Speaker: Janic Chapman
Organization: Washington Gas
Topic: The Life Cycle of a TQM Program
5. Old Business
a. The deadline for the Newletter is the 1st of each month; the
Newletter will be published s-monthly. Input can be forwarded to
Suzanne Stutkwisch or to Newsletter@ascq0511.org.
b. A brochure was received from ASQC headquarters on the Community
Quality Assurance Committee. Ms. McMahon has some ideas but will need
help.
6. New Business
a. Extensive information was provided including Minutes of the
ASQC/IHI Prevention of Motor Vehicle Injuries Community Collaborative.
As one of ten pilot sites, Fredericksburg/Mary Washington Hospital is
"--making excellent progress and is well ahead of many other sites."
Dr. David Simmons continues to head this joint project.
b. Inputs to the ASQC Strategic Plan should be forwarded to Gail
Symons via e-mail. The e-mail address is Secretary@asqc0511.org or
gsymons@erols.com.
d. The phone book has not progressed. Two people have e-mailed
Bill Casti with information. Henry is to send a copy of the section
database file to Harvey.
e. The Newsletter editor will receive information on possible
advertising opportunities to help offset costs of distribution.
f. Bill Eastham volunteered Bill Casti to create a regional
director's homepage. Bill will contact Bill directly.
7. The meeting was adjourned.