Present:  Kim Hoagland, Karen Hubbard, Terry Reynolds, George Love

1. The Minutes of the Sept. 17, 1998 meeting were reviewed and approved.

2. Secretary's Report:  Secretary not present; Kim Hoagland reporting in her
place.  Next Newsletter is almost ready; needs only George Love's piece on
the Travel Fellowship.  George promised to take care of that a.s.a.p.  Kim
Hoagland and Terry Reynolds volunteered to help Becky Fitzgerald take care
of sending out dues reminders.

3. Treasurer's Report:  Terry Reynolds delivered the report, noting that
current funds stand at $20,160.65 total in the Michigan Tech Fund Account
and our working account.  He also indicated that he had initiated a purchase
order through Michigan Tech to order 50 afghans, which would encumber about
$1400 of our funds.

4. Annual Meeting:  Set for 5pm, October 29 in the ROTC building.  Terry
Reynolds
contacted Dick Rupley, who has agreed to speak on the Copper Country in the
Civil War.

Food:  Those present decided to contract with the Memorial Union for tea and
coffee.  George Love, Kim Hoagland, and Terry Reynolds will each furnish a
gallon of cider;  George indicated he would provide a cheeseball and
crackers; Karen Hubbard will provide a fruit plate;  Kim will furnish some
cookies.  Efforts will be made to secure additional foodstuffs.

Publicity:  Kim will contact V. Pegg to assist us in publicity.

Decorations:  Kim will ask Nancy Fisher if she would be in charge of
decorations.  Terry suggested that decorations weren't really necessary.  He
was boo-ed down.

5. Nominations:  Those present discussed possible new members for the Board.
Anyone with suggestions should run them through Kim.

6. Archival Speakers Series:  Next one is set for November 5, 1998.  The
Friends Board meeting will be scheduled for 3 pm instead of the usual 4 pm
to allow attendance at the presentation.  Those present decided that the
Friends would order cookies and drink from the Memorial Union, instead of
furnishing them ourselves, since this was just a few days after the Annual
Meeting, where we were furnishing food.

7. Travel Grant:  The Board discussed the possibility of providing $1000 for
annual travel grants and giving the Travel Grant Committee the flexibility
to award one at that level, or divide it into multiple grants.  There being
no quorum, no decision could be made.

8. Library Planning: Kim reported briefly on Library Planning meetings she
had been involved in over the past summer.  Two options developed by a
Library Planning group were both rejected as too expensive by Facilities
Management director Bill Blumhardt, who felt he could go downstate with no
more than a $50 million project.  There are some hopeful signs, however, in
that Curt Tompkins seems to favor a new library building.

9. Meeting adjourned slightly before 5 pm

Submitted by:

Terry S. Reynolds                              Phone: (906) 487-2113
Chair, Department of Social Sciences  Fax: (906) 487-2468
Program in Industrial History & Archaeology     Email: TREYNOLD@MTU.EDU
Michigan Tech
Houghton, MI  49931