June 20, 2013
AAZK Meeting w/ Guest Speaker Melissa Nelson on Public
Speaking
Attended by: Robin Sutker, Cindy Maur, Sara Koplish, Melissa
Ortiz, Lisa Walker, Elizabeth Mills, Kelly Carman, Ty Nickens, Jessica Chin,
Randi Winter.
Presentation covered many aspects of public speaking
including how to address different crowds for different kinds of talks, how to
tackle difficult questions/subjects, how to exit gracefully and much more.
· GNC: discussed volunteer days last Wednesday and Friday and the possibility of continuing the partnership between GNC and NYCAAZK. We can continue to volunteer and promote them at our events and they can sell our chopsticks in their shop.
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Elections coming up in November, we can add
positions if more people want to be involved by creating more specific titles.
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Need to remind members to register for online
voting.
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Liaison Meetings: open to all departments from
all of our zoos, want to increase our outreach.
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Presentation Night: this year’s theme will be
Training and Enrichment sometime in Sept or Oct
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BFR: Lucky Strike $18/person for 16 lanes,
possibly pushing date from August to September getting up to all 22 lanes (need
to see how much the tickets would be to book all lanes).
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Allowed to sell merchandize, baked item raffle
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$3 beer/$6 pizza
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For big money raisers ($50/$100) we can offer a
tee-shirt and 3x raffle entry
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Trying to push people to raise money above the
ticket price
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Kathleen is checking with Breheny for animal
encounter prize
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Need to solidify tee shirt design and quantity
(100)
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Dues: possibly enabling PayPal for dues, will
most likely cost us money though; there is currently no prorating on membership
dues.
Upcoming Events
National Zookeeper Week July 21st –27th
Overlook Bar July 31st (RSVP) 44th
& 2nd food and drink specials
