Public Relations Meeting March 13th 9:00 – 12:00 

Goal:  Make this group functional with a procedural operating 

manual. Strategic plan action step I B3.  

Present:  

Julie Fitzpatrick 

Kelley Hoffman 

Deb Wearne-Neurohr 

Kara Pezzi 

Susan Harrington 

Becky Peppler 

A brief history of the PR Committee and introduction where made. 

Reviewed with the new to WSST members the structure of WSST.  

 It really helped having Kara, Sue and Deb present. All three 

 have been very involved in WSST.  

The WSST veterans Kara, & Sue felt it was important to have a 

committee person present at the board meeting.  

 -Committee members could be future officers.  

 -There needs to be better communication between the  

    directors and the committees. 

 -Committee’s also need to communicate with each other 

 some cross over of duties.  

Divided into two groups: booth design and review of strategic plan.   

New pictures are in the process of being made for the booth. The 

task of gathering photos will be a joint venture. 

Entire group discussed, what we need to do as group as outlined in 

the strategic plan and what we would like to do as a group. 

A list of teacher education institutions is to be maintained: Action step 

1-A.6a.  Sue had the old list in hard copy.  Kelley will be putting this 

list back into a digital form.  PR will keep this list updated. 

Request:  We are asking District Reps to gather names and 

contact information of all colleges in their district.  List is 

started. 

The Public Relations commitee needs of a new committee chair. 

Kelley Hoffman expressed interest. Will be getting back to us on her 

decision. 

The group selected new clothes for the booth. 

Started a rough outline of a procedural manual 

New ideas to be finalized at the summer meeting: 

  1) Recruit WSST members to present at WEAC.  The 

 presentation will be a dynamic science lesson with an invitation 

 to the WSST convention.  Will check with WEAC about 

 stipend and request funding from WSST. 

 2) Help the president review forms from the convention 

 registration looking for  people who checked that they want to 

 be involved. Three of the group had in the past checked want to 

 serve on a  committee in the  conference registration but was 

 never contacted. 

Future ideas to be discussed at the June meeting: 

 Try using Haiku as a communication tool for PR group. 

 Explore the possibilities of using face book as a social 

 network for WSST. 

 Explore the possibility of using CESA as a contact for WSST. 

 Connect with NSTA to find new members maybe even 

 advertise in their publications.   

 “ Kelley Hoffman our new committee member  

           found WSST through NSTA ” 

 First time at the convention, stop by the booth for a free gift.