April 14, 2008 by zmuh11.

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to announce that I am running for the Vice President position in SIGGRAPH for the 2008-2009 school year. Currently I am a sophomore animation major who wants to see SIGGRAPH keep going in the positive direction that it is going now. Carol, Jen, and Leah have done a really great job in starting out our club and I want to keep that excellence going next year by being the Vice President. Already I am a very active member in our group by attending meetings, workshops, and submitting work for Kinematifest. I have also taken the time to get to know all of the officers and members of the SIGGRAPH group, and I am very familiar with how the current officers work. I am excited to work very hard to make sure that our club succeeds and I will give 110 % of myself to do so.

As a leader I have had much experience running meetings and events. For the past two years I have run the very successful video game tournament that SIGGRAPH is always involved in. I have learned planning and administrative skills from being a resident assistant and student representative. I am also willing to help anyone that has questions and if I don’t know the answer I will take them to the person that would know, and I am also willing to learn and adapt myself to whatever needs this position may have.

But beyond a leader I’m also just a fun person who loves animation, photography, visual design, writing, blogging , and rocking out to good music. I also love to play video games and hang out with friends and I feel like I am a very easy person to get to know.

I have been looking forward to getting a chance to help SIGGRAPH become a bigger and better presence on campus. Even if I am not elected I will still work hard to see that SIGGRAPH continues in the positive direction that our current rock star officers have started.

Thank you for your time and support.

Zach Haugen

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April 10, 2008 by tjlatham.

Hey all,
I am announcing that I am going to run for the position of Vice President for 08-09!

I am already an active and contributing member in SIGGRAPH, I have volunteered in every capacity that has been presented to me. I am currently co-coordinator of events and webmaster for our animation festival. I also took it upon myself to design the logo for our festival and build it’s website; I submitted work to the festival as well. I have been a regular at our meetings and outside events. I have attended SAC meetings representing the School of Communications and SIGGRAPH. I have already been spending a lot of time with the current officers, attending officers’ meetings, and getting to know the ‘ins and outs’ of how things work behind the scenes and the leadership responsibilities inherent to their positions.

Separately, I have also held multiple leadership and organizational roles in other groups, clubs, and organizations, such as a non-profit mission work group and leadership roles in my church.

I am a well rounded representative for the club as I am heavily interested in multiple outlets for advancing media including cinematography, photography, animation, compositing, web design, graphic design, and print making.

I think that I am more than qualified for this position. Additionally, since I found out at the end of last semester that the club would be re-electing officers in the spring, I took it upon myself to learn the ropes of the organization and immerse myself in gaining experience and credibility as a leader and responsible delegate.

I would greatly appreciate your support of my bid for SIGGRAPH’s 08-09 Vice Presidency.  I believe I will prove to be more than devoted to my role.

Thank you, sincerely, for your support,

Timothy Latham

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April 10, 2008 by LeahB29.

HEY ALL!

Ok, so Joe has updated me.

Friday 2-6

Saturday is exciting… signing up from 10am till about 12 will be chances to talk one on one with Joe about whatever you want! Bring your work to be critiqued! We will come back after lunch till about 5 or 6 again, and we will talk more on fun things from Joe’s expertise.

Sunday is 2-about 6 again.

Hope to see you there! RSVP por favor!

Thanks,

Leah

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April 10, 2008 by michele narup.

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a good week.

I was hoping you all could send a reply to this email saying when would be a good time for you to meet to talk about plans for this summer. Hotels, Flights, ect.

Please let me know which of these days will work for you.

Saturday April 19 (Afternoon)
Sunday April 20 (Late Afternoon)
Thursday April 24 (9:30pm)
Sunday April 27 (Late Afternoon)

I’d like to have a first meeting sometime this month to get some details figured out, because the hotels are all booking up.

- Michele Narup
contact@michelenarup.com

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April 10, 2008 by michele narup.

I’d like to announce that I am wanting to run Vice President, Secretary, and Head of Marketing / Schwagmeister for the 08-09 School Year.

I am currently working on getting everyone in the club organized for SIGGRAPH 08 this summer on LA, and was in attendance at the conference last year in San Diego. I have been an active member in the Webster SIGGRAPH chapter.

My qualifications may not be long, but I promise to work hard to maintain the excellent club that has been created. I have a lot of pride invested in SIGGRAPH, and I would love to help further the progress already made in the INTM department.

Outside Webster I do have experience in leadership roles, serving on two club boards during high school.

I hope you consider me for this position. Thank you.

-Michele Narup

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April 9, 2008 by LeahB29.

Hey everybody,

I’d like to express my desire to run for SIGGRAPH president for the 08-09 year.

I, currently, am the VP for our loverly club, and have poured a great deal of time and energy into it’s success.

For a run down of my qualifications, I co-founded Kinematifest, brought Joe Haidar and Steve Meyer here to present to us, was part of the pilgrimage to our chapters first conference in San Diego, try and keep people informed of the goings and comings of the club, keep in regular communication with the Dean of Communications and other professors, attend Student Advisory Committee every first Thursday of the month with the dean and our peers in SOC, and network with others around campus.

I hope that my leadership and activity in our club at present is enough incentive for you to consider me for the Presidency.

Thanks to you all for being such a stellar club!

All the best,

Leah

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April 9, 2008 by LeahB29.

Hey ya’ll!

So SGA contacted me and wondered if anyone is into designing signage for WebU to be made into banners for light poles, etc saying “Welcome to Webster University, home of the oh-so-terrifying Gorloks..” etc (Not that, really. They wouldn’t like it.. haha). It would have to be done in vectors, meaning Illustrator. Any more questions? talk to me or Jacob Gossage.

Yeah us!
Leah

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April 9, 2008 by LeahB29.

Hey all,

Ok.  I have not gotten concrete word from Joe yet on times for this weekend’s class (11-13).

SO Im making an executive decision, and saying that all 3 days will begin at 2:00pm.  I’d say they will be running till at least 5 or 6 if not later.

If this changes, I will update this post!

Again, email me if you are planning to come! events@webugraph.com

thanks all!

Leah

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April 7, 2008 by cagednerdx.

Hey all! I just wanted to remind everyone that elections for next semester’s officers will be taking place at the next meeting, Thursday, April 17.

I strongly encourage those of you who are regularly involved in SIGGRAPH activities and have a desire to help make a difference in the INTM department to run - we need people who are passionate about maintaining the integrity and togetherness of our SIGGRAPH student organization.

The positions that will be up for election will be:

President (Currently held by Carol)
Presidential duties include organization and leadership of meetings, and cooperation with the Vice President and Faculty Advisor for organization of events (including Kinematifest). Any other responsibilities relating to the group will be filtered through the President, and must be delegated accordingly. The president must, with the vice president (and other officers if they so desire), attend occasional meetings with the Dean and SGA.

Vice President (Currently held by Leah)
The Vice President is responsible for assisting the President in the organization of events, as well as the organization and leadership of meetings as necessary (e.g., in the absence of the President). The vice president must, with the president (and other officers if they so desire), attend occasional meetings with the Dean and SGA.

Secretary (Currently held by Jen)
The secretary is responsible for keeping track of the members of the group, maintaining a current contact sheet, and making note of what occurs at meetings. The secretary may assist the President and Vice President as necessary.

Treasurer (Currently held by Jeremy)
The treasurer is responsible for making semesterly budget proposals and monthly budget reports for SGA. Additionally, the Treasurer is responsible for obtaining necessary reimbursements for SIGGRAPH purchases, and keeping track of the status of the budget. The treasurer may assist the President and Vice President as necessary.

Head of Marketing / Schwagmeister (Currently held by Ben)
Responsible for advertising and marketing of meetings and events. Designs and prints posters, fliers, etc. May be responsible for T-shirts and other schwag. The Schwagmeister may assist the other officers as necessary.

If you notice any errors or omissions, please change or inform as soon as possible.

If you’re interested in any of these positions, leave a post on WebUGraph with who you are and why you think you’re appropriate for the position. Attendance for hopeful officers will be mandatory for the next meeting (the 17th), as you will need to make a brief presentation to the group, and you must be present for voting. We will begin training the new officers as of the meeting following the election: May 1st.

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