CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 7:20 PM at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna by Treasurer Kathy Dunn (due to late arrival of President Jodi Reeves). The meeting was held following a buffet dinner. The participants were welcomed and the meeting agenda was presented. Thirty participants were in attendance.
VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT
Vice-President LeTarte was delayed, so Treasurer Dunn recapped our three previous meetings in 2005: a talk on x-ray microscopy by Greg Denbeaux of Albany NanoTech, held at SuperPower on April 21; a talk by Michael Notis of Lehigh on Archeometallurgy, held at SuperPower on June 2; and the November 15 meeting with TMS at RPI including a dinner, a poster session, and a talk by Bruce Watson on "Material Science of the Earth". After her arrival Vice-President LeTarte solicited suggestions for the 2006 meetings, and reminded us that because of the change in the time our our Business Meeting from December to January, we had no Business Meeting in calendar year 2005. She thanked GE for helping to arrange the 2006 Business Meeting
TREASURER'S REPORT
Treasurer Dunn thanked the current corporate sponsors, GE, Bruker, and Thermo. Special thanks went to GE for a generous donation of $500 for this annual business meeting. An effort will be made to increase and retain corporate sponsorship, and suggestions for enhancing corporate benefits were solicited.
Income:
| Corporate sponsors | $500 |
| Dues and payment for dinner meetings | $1025 |
| Total 2004 income | $1525 |
Expenses:
| 4/21 Meeting at Superpower | $0.0 |
| 6/2 Meeting at Superpower | $499.65 |
| 11/15 Joint meeting with TMS at RPI | $400.00 |
| Total 2005 expenses | $899.65 |
SECRETARY'S REPORT
There were 30 paid-up members at the end of 2005. There are 100 names on the e-mailing list and listed on the website. The website list includes affiliation, professional interests, and membership in national societies. Updates on listed information were solicited.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
The meeting was turned over to Nominating Committee Chairman Jim McGee. There was only one nominee for each position.
The following slate of officers below was unanimously elected.
| President | Laurie LeTarte |
| Vice-President | Eric Plesko |
| Treasurer | Kathy Dunn |
| Secretary | Michael Marko |
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
Outgoing President Jodi Reeves made brief remarks thanking members for attending and expressing her pleasure to have served the Society. President-Elect LeTarte presented Reeves with a plaque and Past-Presidential coffee mug.
EMERITUS MEMBER APPOINTMENT
Ernie Hall introduced Sterling Newberry, and presented him a plaque as CDMMS' first Emeritus Member, and gave a talk on Sterling's accomplishments in development work in electron optics at GE, where he was responsible for an early electrostatic TEM and the first commercial x-ray microscope. Sterling started work in electron optics as a graduate student, working on one of first electron microscopes in North America. He is a Charter Member of MSA, and after leaving GE went on to form the Microbit Company that developed electron-optical data storage methods. Sterling is still active in research involving x-ray microscopy.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the business meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM , and Ernie Hall gave a brief talk on microscopy and microanalysis at GE, as a prelude to the tour of the new laboratories.
last update 20 February 2006