Monthly Meeting Minutes - April

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Place: DFW Technology Conference Room

Attendants:

1. Pauline Chen 陳寶玲 President of NTAPA 2007
2. Charles Lai 賴禎添 Member and Advisor (03/2006)
3. Mrs. Lai 賴太太
4. David Hsu 徐景勛 Board Member and the 2nd President
5. Walt Hsu 徐啟祥 Treasurer and the 4th President
6. Fang Li Hsu 蔡芳理 Member
7. Su Li 蘇 力 Board Member and the 5th President
8. Lin Hwang 廖玲芬 Secretary to the President (03/2006)
9. Howard Lie 李孝烈 Member and previous Board Member
10. Ming Zeng 曾鳴 Member (2006)
11. Deming Zhou 周德明 New Member (02/2007)
12. Lei Zhou 周 磊 New Member (02/2007)
13. Windus Wong 黃進昌 Member (03/2007)
14. Lei Wang 王 蕾 Member(2006)
15. Yiqian Wang 王毅茜 Member (11/2006) *Leaving us this Saturday
16. Tsai-Hsien Lee 李璨顯 New member (3/2007)
17. Chao-Tsu Lee 李吳招治 Guest
18. Richard Chen New member (3/2007)
19. Greg Hoh 何英富 Board Member (04/2006)

We welcome first time attendants:

1. Jerry Chen Returned Member (04/2007)

We missed:

1. Dennis Chin 秦 凱 Advisor
2. Tina Huang 黃金子 New Member (02/2007)
3. Rick Pang 龐 勇 New Member (02/2007)
4. Victor Sheng 盛 力 New Member (02/2007)
5. Tony Xu 徐 翔 New Member (02/2007)
6. J.J. Lin 林俊傑 New Member (02/2007)
7. Eric Yun 阮怡誠 New Member (2003)
8. Avee Yun New Member(2003)
9. Jingsheng Liu

The President Report:

Reviewed the May field trip on 5/12 Saturday to Caddo Lake. Asked Greg to initial a survey to find out what is expected about the trip.

Photo Sharing:

We had a best photo sharing in this meeting. The majority had their work shared.

Fang Li Hsu showed her pictures taken during her recent Taiwan trip
Lei Zhou shared his amazing bird pictures.
Lin Hwang showed her unique flower pictures. Big improvement.
Richard Chen shared a lot of his travel pictures to various places of interest.
Pauline Chen also showed some of her recent flower images.
David Hsu demoed some of his new live model pictures taken recently in Dallas.
Lei Wang shared some little children pictures. Cute!
Greg Hoh reported a recent trip to Dennis with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lai, April Kao and her friend to view April's Tkbet photo exhibition, which lasts till 4/27.
Dr. Lai shared his recent charming bluebonnet pictures.

Special:

We are sorry to hear that Yiqian Wang is moving to Minneapolis Saturday, 04/21/2007. We will miss Yiqian and hope she can still send us her new work to share with us.

The meeting lasted 3 hours.