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MISSISSIPPI CHESS ASSOCIATION
Meeting Minutes

10/22/2006 12:30PM

Officers Present: Douglas Stewart, Steve Perry and Ralph McNaughton

Next meeting:   2007 Mississippi Closed State Championship

 

 

I.            Announcements

1)     Meeting brought to order by Douglas Stewart

2)     Old business – none

3)     Treasurer’s Report

a.      Last year’s balance as of 09/30/2005        $567.56

b.      Present Balance as of 09/30/2006             $1422.42

4)     When asked about having tournaments in the Hattiesburg area, Douglas asked for members in any area that wanted tournaments to be held to find a site that would be suitable.  MCA would be happy to hold tournaments anywhere in the State that had a suitable site and we could expect a reasonable turn out.

5)     New officers to be elected

 

II.          Discussion

1)     Ralph McNaughton moved to increase the number of Vice Presidents to 3 in order to better represent the whole state.  The motion was seconded and passed.

2)     Election of new Officers:

a.      President

                                                              i.      Nominee

1.      Douglas Stewart

a.      Nomination seconded and candidate was voted in.

 

b.      Vice President for Northern Mississippi

                                                              i.      Nominee

1.      K. Greg Turner

a.      Nomination seconded and candidate was voted in.

 

c.      Vice President for Central Mississippi Nominee

                                                              i.      Nominee

1.      J. Mike Jarrett

a.      Nomination seconded and candidate was voted in.

 

d.      Vice President for Southern Mississippi

                                                              i.      Nominee

1.      John M. Walker

a.      Nomination seconded and candidate was voted in.

 

e.      Secretary/Treasurer

                                                              i.      Nominee

1.      Ralph McNaughton

a.      Nomination seconded and candidate was voted in.

 

III.         Roundtable

 

  1. The Vice Presidents and any other USCF Member interested were asked to become Club Tournament Directors
    1. Clay Polk indicated that he was interested.
  2. The Vice Presidents were asked to help run tournaments and promote chess in their area
  3. It was requested that we use the TLAs in Chess Life more often because this is the only way some of our members learn of our tournaments.
  4. It was requested that we have at least one Grand Prix event this next year.
  5. It was requested that Harold (Bill) Wheeler Jr. would take over advertisement of tournament results and the announcement of new tournaments by approaching the Journalism Department at Mississippi College to see if we could get a student to take on this task.
  6. It was requested and Steve Perry volunteered to annotate tournament games.
    1. It was asked that the players (as much as possible) record their games on computer and send the files to Steve.
  7. Douglas indicated that anyone interested in helping on the website would be considered.
    1. Clay Polk said that one of his chess club members would be interested.
    2. Ralph McNaughton said that he would be interested.