Gerontological Nutritionist 2000 Annual Business Meeting Tuesday, October 17, 2000 – Denver, Colorado

Call to Order: Barbara Woodhouse called The Gerontological Nutritionist (GN) Dietetic Practice Group Annual Business Meeting to order, at 5:10 PM (MT). A quorum was present.

Approval of Agenda: The 2000 Annual Business meeting agenda was accepted with the addition of recognition of GN members that are 50-year members of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) on a motion by Marilyn Abernethy. Martha Peppones sec-onded the motion. The motion passed.

Introductions of the 2000-2001 GN Board: M. Peppones intro-duced the GN Board and Com-mittee Chairs: Martha Peppones- Past Chair Barbara Woodhouse-Chair Nancy Trebella-Chair-elect Cathy Gendreau-Secretary Adele Huls-Treasurer Kristin Hastings-Practice Coordi-nator, Home/Community Based Care Susan Saffel-Shrier-Practice Coor-dinator, Education/Research Deborah Kemokia-Wright-Prac-tice Coordinator, Long-term Care Marnie Cranston-Practice Coor-dinator, Food Service Systems Dian Weddle-Nominating Com-mittee Chair Audrey McCool-Nominating Committee Chair-elect Martha Peppones-Alliance Valetina Remig-QM Amy Nickerson-Legislative JoAnn Prophet-Fundraising/ Technology Cheryl Meskus-Awards Sudha Reddy-Professional Devel-opment Marty Yadrick-CPI Representative Becky Snyder-Award Chair She also recognized other who were not able to attend the GN Business Meeting Kim Pedroza-ADA Practice Team Dalna McKeon-Newsletter Coor-dinating Editor Edith Graybill-Circulating Editor

Recognition of 1999 Corporate Sponsors: Barbara Woodhouse recognized and thanked the GN Corporate Sponsors: Computrition, Menu Systems, Inc., Ocean Spray, The Peanut Institute, and Starch Australasia (Hi-maize)

Minutes of the 1999 GN Annual Business Meeting: Cathy Gendreau, Secretary reviewed the minutes of the 1999 GN Annual business Meeting held on October 19, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia as pub-lished in the Winter 1999 GN Newsletter. The minutes were ap-proved on a motion by Marilyn Abernethy and seconded by Kristen Hastings. The motion passed.

Treasurer’s Report: Adele Huls, Treasurer presented the GN fi-nancial report for 1999-2000. Dues received for fiscal year 1999- 2000 was $50, 880. Total revenues for 1999-2000 were $64,095. The total expenditures were $66,038. The fund balance as of May 31, 2000 was $132,925.

Chair’s Report: Barbara Woodhouse provided the current member count to be 2,466 as of October 1, 2000. She reviewed the new GN annual report, activities that had occurred during the Food and Nutrition Conference and Ex-hibition 2000 including: Pre-FNCE program, 20 th Anniversary dinner, and GN major session and encour-aged members to participate in the mentoring program and use the GN electronic mailing list.

Committee Reports: Legislative: Amy Nickerson sum-marized the legislative activity that has occurred in 2000 highlighting Medical Nutrition Therapy and the Older American’s Act. The latest information is that the MNT bill will be included in the Healthcare Reform Bill that will go before Congress. Amy Nickerson re-viewed the version of the bill from the House that will go forward. Once passed it will take as long as two years to be enacted. She en-couraged all members to lobby their Congress people in the next week. She shared highlights about the Public Policy Workshop she at-tended. GN Web Site: JoAnn Prophet shared with the group that she and Martha Peppones are working with a webmaster to update the website this year. She also suggested that all members make use of the GN electronic mailing list.

New Business: Ballot Process for 2001-2002: Dian Weddle reviewed the ballot process for the 2000-2001 GN elections. The ballot and bio-graphical information on each candidate will be published in the Winter GN newsletter. The dead-line for this is November 1 st . She stated that she and her committee were still working on the slate and encouraged members in the audi-ence that were interested in run-ning for office to visit with her af-ter the meeting. She reviewed the positions that would be open on the Board: President-elect, Secre-tary, Practice Coordinator, Educa-tion/ Research, Practice Coordina-tor, Food Service Systems and Nominating Chair-elect. Mentoring Program: Susan Saffel-Shrier reviewed the mentoring program that was developed this year. A description of the posi-tion is included in the Fall 2000 GN newsletter. She encouraged members to participate as either mentors or mentees.

Announcements: Barbara Woodhouse announced that there will be a GN reception immediately following the busi-ness meeting and encouraged all members to attend. She encour-aged attendees to complete a con-tinuing professional education survey for Oakstone Medical Pub-lishing. Dian Weddle made a job announcement about a job open-ing for a teaching position with Florida International University. Tina Remig highlighted a publica-tion that she coauthored with a fellow GN member on Parkinson’s disease. It is available at the ADA Bookmart and pro-vides 3 hours of continuing edu-cation. Jean Lloyd announced that she was looking for volun-teers to help her plan the AoA pre-meeting symposium for next year prior to FNCE. Amy Nickerson reassured everyone that the electronic mailing list is nonintrusive and a great resource to members.

Adjournment: The 2000 GN Annual Business Meeting was ad-journed at 5:40 PM (MT) by a motion made by M. Abernethy. M. Peppones seconded the mo-tion. The motion passed.

Respectfully submitted, Cathy Gendreau, RD, LD GN Secretary