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2014 Section Chair ReportGreetings Section Members! I would like to open my first Section Chair report to express my gratitude to Bill Cherowitzo for his leadership of the section the past few years. I appreciate his guidance and also appreciate all the effort and time he has freely given the section. Mike Brilleslyper also deserves our gratitude for his service through his recent term as Governor, and many thanks to Bill Briggs for maintaining the section website for years. I am really looking forward to working with the section team: Bill Cherowitzo, Erica Hastert, Heidi Keck, and Bill Emersoni. Of course, the section benefits from a lot of great supporters: Linda Sundbye for her tireless efforts on producing this newsletter; George Heine and Janet Heine Barnett for their work on books and for taking over maintenance of the section website; and it is only now that I realize the list of people to thank is a rather long one. Thank you to all for your contributions in time and talent to the benefit of our section! The top priority I have this year is having a great section meeting. We are off to a great start by recruiting Colorado College to host the section meeting this year, which will be April 17- 18, 2015. I have been in correspondence with our program chairs: Marlow Anderson and Andrea Bruder and they are constructing a truly wonderful section meeting. I encourage all readers of this newsletter to consider attending our next section meeting. The signature event for our section is the spring meeting and this gathering largely depends on attracting the mathematics community of our section to attend. This is a great place to see old friends and share ideas along with introducing our students to the profession. Please encourage your colleagues to attend and also consider giving a talk. Colorado College has always been a great venue for a conference and the fact that the MAA is celebrating its centennial next year is another reason the spring meeting is going to be special. There are a couple of other section activities to mention. The section has a taskforce reviewing the section bylaws, which is a regular review mandated by the central MAA organization. This work will likely produce some revisions to the bylaws for the section to consider next meeting. The section also has a taskforce looking at starting a teaching award for early career faculty, which will likely mirror the MAA Alder award. To learn more about what is going on please check out our new section website and of course the national website It turns out the chair of the section has a term of two years and I would like to do as much as I can to bolster the activities of our section as much as possible. For me, the largest asset the MAA has to offer is the grassroots involvement opportunities that reside in the sections. I look forward to working with you and if you have any ideas on how we can foster growth in the section then please do not hesitate to contact me. Respectfully Submitted, Kyle Riley, SDSMT Chair, Rocky Mountain Section |