MEETING OF THE
PARENTS ASSOCIATION
OF MARITIME COLLEGE
Friday, October 16, 2009
8:00 p.m.
RITA GRAVES:
Will everyone stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
(Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was said.)
RITA GRAVES: Again, my name is Rita Graves.
I am the president
of the Parents Association which is your association.
introduce the executive board.
Dan Muccio, Mike Clark.
I want to
The vice presidents are Greg Gribko,
Donna Clark is our recording secretary.
Our treasurer is Lynette Coe Freeman who is on vacation this weekend.
Our most important person which I consider most important is
the vice president of communications.
Her name is April Maron.
She
is the one that gets you all the information that you need in a timely
manner.
Where is she?
She's right there.
And our chairpersons are
Ellie Meade, Joanne Muccio, Frank Laurita, Alfredo Munoz, Tony
Cavalieri. Thank you all for all you do.
My husband, John Graves,
the webmaster.
I want to extend a very a big thank you to all the volunteers
that came out to help us during Homecoming.
It was a great success.
Over $6,000 that we raised for the cadets is going to go back to them.
We are going to have -- one of the things that we do to get the monies
back to your sons and daughters is we're going to be having a meeting
this Wednesday, October 21st, it's for club disbursements.
I invite
any parent here who wants to be part of that meeting -- you have to
let me know tonight that you would like to attend.
You can watch
the cadets and the students come over, make a presentation for the
funding that they want for their clubs and organizations.
It's great
to attend it.
So if you are interested in doing this next Wednesday,
see me or see Greg.
GREG GRIBKO:
He will tell you a little about it.
We are just going to have a meeting.
clubs to come in and do a little presentation.
point presentation.
into it.
They do a little power
It's usually interesting.
It's interesting
We ask the
They put some work
to see them present it. If you are
interested, it's going to be Wednesday night at
7 o'clock in
the Student Life Conference Room which is back in the building behind
Vander Clute and the E and F Barracks at Baylis Hall about 7 o'clock.
If you are interested, see either Rita or myself after the
meeting.
RITA GRAVES:
Thank you.
Also a big "thank you" to Rita and
Dennis Flaherty for bringing in all the goodies.
baked.
They're all home
Thank you very much, Rita and Dennis.
Our treasurer, Lynette Freeman, is not here tonight.
have the treasurer's report.
She does
The account balance is $38,025.68.
Now this is the funds that we have in our treasury, and part of it
is going to go back to your sons and daughters through the club
disbursements.
If you want to be part of that meeting and that
committee, please let me or Greg know tonight.
I have some announcements to make.
Drive.
We are doing a Toys For Tots
The Semper Fidelis Society here at Maritime is holding a Toys
For Tots Drive.
I told them that we would collect the toys.
you to the people who donated tonight.
Thank
Please remember to bring in
toys for the November and December meetings, too.
We will get them
over to Michael Bonanza.
If you think about it, please remember to
bring in a new toy unwrapped.
That would be fantastic.
I have a message from Dean Tardis Johnson.
Thank you.
These are his words.
He wants all the parents to know that midterm grades will be posted
in the next week or so.
It is important that you communicate with
your sons and daughters to find out how they are doing academically.
If you, the parent, are made of aware of any situation that is impeding
on your son or daughter's academic progress and you want to talk about
it, contact him at (718)409-7348.
He will be able to discuss
anything that he can discuss up to what the FERPA policy allows.
At this point we are going to -- we do at this every single
meeting.
We will go around and introduce ourselves and our
significant other.
Tell us what your son or daughter's level is,
what their major is and most importantly what hometown you're from.
You would be amazed how many people live within a mile of you and
you don't even realize it.
If you hear someone lives close to you,
exchange phone numbers.
We're going to start over here.
(Whereupon, introductions were made.)
RITA GRAVES:
Yesterday I was at a networking event and I
happened to bump into an alum from 2004.
he just comes and speaks to the parents?
He asked, Is it okay if
I said, Absolutely.
I'm
going to give a few minutes of the floor to Eric Sawinski from the
Class of 2004.
He'd like to speak for a few minutes.
ERIC SAWINSKI:
I'm a marine engineer.
Eric.
I graduated in '04.
I've kind of gotten into various appointments since I graduated.
met with your current president.
I
We were talking and I realized that
maybe it's time for me to come back and help out students that are
here right now.
When I graduated, I worked for a military contractor
doing Navy ships.
Since then I now work in the commercial field.
I do commercial buildings, hospitals, schools, et cetera.
So what I'd like to do is I know a lot of your sons and daughters
are going through the very rigorous educational process here.
They're going to be getting towards graduation.
options out there.
There are tons of
You can go pretty much anywhere in the world and
run into a Maritime grad.
If you don't know where to work and what
options are out there, you might not know what potentially great jobs
are going to be out there.
So what I'd like to do is those that are juniors, seniors, even
mugs, if they want to know what is out there, what things are
potentially there for them to grasp at, what they should be focused
on and looking towards while they're going through their
education -- for example, I was a squad leader, an IDO, an ADO on
cruise and I was a company commander.
I kind of hit everything.
All
that helped me into becoming a better leader and realizing how to
work in an office environment.
If I didn't go through that
extracurricular activity, I don't know if I would have been as
successful as I am now.
These are things that kind of past experience
has taught me that I would like to express to those that are going
through the education now.
I can give my e-mail address to her, and all I ask is when they
contact me, just to tell me who they are.
That always helps.
What
is their preferred way of me talking to them, be it via e-mail, phone,
what their major is.
what I was.
If they're not a mechanical engineer -- that's
I know pretty much people in every academic discipline,
marine transportation, HVAC, electrical engineering, et cetera.
I
can funnel your questions to those people that are sort of a lot older,
some younger or my age.
I will make sure they contact your son or
daughter back and give them whatever answer they can.
If they can't,
then explain why they can=t.
Do you have any questions for me?
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is your father still tutoring chemistry for
the students?
ERIC SAWINSKI:
in chemistry.
That's up for him to answer.
It's not his fault.
RITA GRAVES:
I wasn't that good
It's mine.
Eric, thank you very much.
If anyone wants to
contact Eric, you can contact us through the Parents Association at
SUNYMaritime.org.
The alumni are a great source -- they're
close-knit and are always helping out the cadets.
Thank you, Eric.
Our guest speaker is Vice President for University Relations,
Captain Tom Greene.
CAPTAIN GREENE:
come up with me?
Thank you, ma'am.
Meagan, would you like to
There are a lot of people that I have the opportunity
to spend a lot of time with.
Megan Maron happens to be one of those.
I'm sure her father and mother appreciate that.
First of all, welcome to your college.
something to you.
I wanted to mention
As a matter of fact, Sean and I and a couple of
others were over -- Sean Flannery and I and a couple of others were
over at the New York Container Terminal this afternoon.
Just to kind of give you an idea of the alumni and what's involved
with the Fort Schuyler/Maritime College and being a graduate, we went
over there.
We met three individuals.
were alums.
The person that took us over and met us was from the
Class of 2006.
We went up on board.
Of the three, two of them
As soon as we got up to the
quarter deck, we were met by an alum from the Class of 1997.
When
we got ready to leave the ship, before we could leave the ship, the
chief mate came over and said, How about I give you a tour of the
ship?
By the way, she was from the Class of 2002.
All of that just
in short order.
I want to tell you the status of your college.
They are doing very, very well.
We are bustling.
Our cadets, our students, our
faculty, our staff literarily are working nearly around the clock
to insure not only a great education, a hands-on training, but also
development not only in team work but also leadership and also
mentorship.
The State of New York has provided us many opportunities for
improvements.
They're going to start working on the renovation to
the pier, expanding it and putting two more moorings.
see the Empire VI.
You do not
It's in the Brooklyn Naval Yard having work done
to it and it will be gone for about six weeks.
Then it will be coming
back to the campus.
A couple other things.
We have plans for a new building, kind
of an operational educational building.
It will take the place of
where the admissions building is right now.
a Seaman Center.
We are also looking at
We are not going to put it up until we renovate
the pier and have the infrastructure set up for that.
being done through the state system.
the monies from the state.
All this is
All we have to do is to get
We have to get the faucet loosened so
it will come out to us.
Other things that are going on:
here for an alum who had passed away.
Just today we had a ceremony
We also had full classes.
We
had people go down to participate in the Maritime World Society
Organization.
We had people at Mount Sinai, the bagpipers and color
guard performing there.
And also tomorrow we're hosting the junior
ROTC drill.
We have a men's soccer game.
the head soccer coach for that.
lacrosse.
Of course, Commander McCarthy is
Thereafter we have a scrimmage for
Lieutenant Knippel is the assistant lacrosse coach.
Sunday we have women's soccer.
On
We also have a Tour de Bronx.
Twenty-five hundred or more bicyclists will be coming through the
campus.
Certainly, Fort Schuyler/Maritime College, we have never
been in better stead.
Our finances, even though you always read in
the paper there is going to be cuts and more cuts, so we thank you
for all you do to support our cadets and our students in their
endeavors.
We also want to talk a little bit about housing.
we have got Sara Walsh who is the housing director.
is we have got some people in some triples.
in rooms that we've made.
Over there
Our game plan
We have got some people
Our hope is that by next semester or even
sooner during this semester we will start putting them in double
rooms.
The status of the regiment, we are over 1,170 cadets.
already got a waiting list for indoc for January.
We have
We are going to
probably have close to 30 Turkish students coming in and we have
already got 20 some either transfer students or students who are in
the non-regimental program that want to come in.
Through the work
of admissions we have already, like I said, got a waiting list.
The graduate program has a big impetus this year.
more and more people in our graduate program.
There are
The grad license,
those are the people also trying to get the their deck license or
engineering license.
We have also got students going on for the
civilian or the one-year program.
Some of them are doing that
online.
We will have Sara come up and then have Joe Nathan Timmons who
is our senior -- our resident director.
They can speak.
We have
also got Lieutenant Drew McCarthy and Lieutenant Knippel.
We also
have Rachel Lerner from Student Life and Residential Life over there.
We will start on housing.
us, we will be standing around.
your questions.
If you have any other questions for
We will be glad to answer some of
Sara, you want to help us out. Once again, thanks for all you
do, to say the least.
SARA WALSH:
'05 alum.
You really do make a difference.
As Captain Greene said, I'm Sara Walsh.
I am very familiar with these buildings, very familiar
with everything that goes on here.
staff.
I'd like to say I have a wonderful
This staff includes four resident directors and 26 RAs that
work directly with your sons and daughters.
body.
I'm an
We are housing 1263 students.
number so far.
We have a large student
So it's probably the largest
Our resident advisors and directors get to know your
sons and daughters on a personal level while interacting with them.
You probably have a lot of questions.
to do at this time.
I would like to field all your questions.
can be an open forum.
to answer them.
If I can't answer them, you can refer your questions
place.
18.
I'm ready for questions if
No?
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
SARA WALSH:
It
If you have questions, I'm happy to be able
to Student Housing at SUNYMaritime.edu.
you've got them.
That's what I would like
What's the policy about guests?
We have an overnight guest policy actually in
You can find it online.
Basically guests have to be over
Fourteen times during the semester guests are allowed.
They
need to fill out the paperwork, provide an ID and we will be happy
to sign off.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
SARA WALSH:
Do they stay in the room?
As long as they get approval of the roommate.
Tripling questions?
Anything?
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
If anything has to be repaired in the
room -- my daughter's bottom drawer is not working.
would fix it.
Nothing has happened.
They said they
Who should she ask?
She asked
the RA.
SARA WALSH:
We do work to correct problems as fast as we can.
So if she goes to the RA and nothing is necessarily happening, it
will go up to the RD.
We are always here to help out.
It's
possible -AUDIENCE MEMBER:
It's not a big deal.
It's not the only
drawer, but it's the only drawer she can put her civilian
clothes
in.
SARA WALSH:
It's an important one.
If it becomes to the point
where nothing gets done, she can go to the housing office.
in Baylis every day.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
We are
We are happy to accommodate their needs.
At the last meeting the Admiral had said
something about the study rooms being used as dorm rooms.
SARA WALSH:
Yes.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Is the plan to leave those dorm rooms?
Are
they going to be used as study rooms?
SARA WALSH:
Our plan is actually to move all those residents
into the general population once space becomes available.
Hopefully
next semester we will return them to study areas.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I have another question about the overnight
guest policy.
Is that the same for all the students?
SARA WALSH:
Yes.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
It's not a privilege or an earned thing?
It's right off the bat?
SARA WALSH:
The only restriction for the regimental students
is guests can only come on liberty nights for them.
can only have guests over the weekend.
once a week.
Fourth class
Third class can have guests
That's why we also, in the paperwork, have it signed
by the battalion officer so they know whether or not they are allowed
to have guests over.
Okay.
of this.
If you have any other questions, I'll be here after all
You can e-mail Student Housing at SUNYMaritime.edu.
Thank
you.
RITA GRAVES:
Knippel.
We have Commander McCarthy and Lieutenant
Would you like to come up and say something about the
regiment?
COMMANDER McCARTHY:
RITA GRAVES:
We are good.
This is Commander McCarthy and Lieutenant Joel
Knippel.
COMMANDER McCARTHY:
When I was a student here, we had 500 kids
in the regiment.
Now we have more than doubled that.
fit in the quad.
We can't fit in the gym when the weather is bad.
We are going to build something sooner or later.
in trouble, they deserve it.
We can't all
If the kids get
If they can't go home on weekends, we're
keeping them and you're lucky.
Regarding guest passes, we allow guests for the regiment
students on Friday and Saturday.
Captain Greene will say never, your
girlfriend or boyfriend can never stay at the college.
At least
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays they can.
For all the freshman parents, this morning all the freshman were
up at 5:30.
They went to the gym since it was raining out.
exercised in the gym for about an hour.
They go to class throughout the day.
We
Then they go to breakfast.
They should be tired.
Right
now your freshmen in the ROTC program, you will see them running
around the campus.
up today.
They're doing an indoc program which finishes
They're moving past their bottom stages.
Starting
tomorrow they will kind of be considered fully in the ROTC program.
That's about it.
Good times, good times.
LIEUTENANT KNIPPEL:
I'm Lieutenant Joel Knippel.
and I are graduates of the college.
Both Drew
In case your sons and daughters
haven't informed you yet, in each building there's both a resident
director at the staff level and a battalion officer.
charge of C and D companies.
I'm in charge of A and B.
Commander Stroud is in charge of E and F.
the housing folks to resolve problems.
Drew is in
Lieutenant
We work side by side with
We communicate regularly
with the housing folks as well.
RITA GRAVES:
Thank you.
COMMANDER McCARTHY:
We are so full on the rooms.
The housing
department will put out a housing intent close to the end of the
semester.
They have to sign up for housing next semester.
fail to do so, we will skip them over.
somebody else.
If they
We will give the room to
A lot of freshmen say, I don't want to go back.
They
don't really tell you what's going on.
If they have second thoughts
and they haven't filled out the housing intent, they should.
RITA GRAVES:
Thank you.
Our next guest speaker is Rachel Lerner.
of Student Services.
RACHEL LERNER:
Rachel Lerner.
She's the Director
Rachel.
Hi.
How are you doing tonight?
My name is
I am the Director of Student Programs, Student
Activities and Orientation officially as it says on my business card
and my e-mail.
evening.
I'm here to represent the Student Life Office this
Unlike Sara, Joe Nathan and Lieutenant Knippel and
Commander McCarthy, I actually don't work for the regiment.
I work
for the Student Life Office which is the overall outside of the
classrooms center for resources for all students on campus, both
civilian and regimental students.
If we have any parents of civilian
students, hopefully they're doing wonderfully and come to our office
as a resource as needed.
I wanted to talk about a couple of things.
Many of your students
will probably at some point or another during the semester will say,
I'm bored.
Our office is here to help with that.
One of my primary
functions is to coordinate all the campus activities.
We have had
over 20 student activities both on and off campus already this
semester.
We've got just as many more coming for the remaining of
the semester.
Some of the things that we have had is we have gone
to Broadway shows, rock climbing trips, video game days, live comedy,
live music.
In this room last night in celebration of Hispanic
Heritage Month, we had Latin food tasting which was very well attended
and delicious.
Ice cream sundae bars, movies on the mess deck, a
whole slew of other events as well as trips into the city.
If the student says there's nothing to do, have them talk to
me.
I will absolutely find them something to do.
Some of the
upcoming events going on with Student Life include a rock climbing
trip coming up on Monday, more live comedy, a special midterm and
final's stress relief day, massage chair and smoothie bars, hot
chocolate and coffee bar. We have tickets to the NFL game on Sunday,
November 15th which is really exciting.
It's actually a first for
the Student Life Office to get tickets to an NFL game.
Another
Broadway show and a whole bunch of other events and some regular
things will be going on.
If you haven't had the chance to go to the student game room,
that's a new addition that wasn't here.
It was in Vander Clute Hall
Monday through Thursday and it's open from 7 to 10 P.M., Friday from
6 P.M. to midnight, all day Saturday from noon to midnight and Sunday
from noon to 8 P.M.
on the weekends.
First year students, mugs, are allowed in there
There are TVs there.
There are things to do.
If
they don't want to go home for the weekend, there's always somebody
in there to hang out and watch TV with and to do things with.
Moving onto Student Organizations, they mentioned that the
Parents Association day for funding student organizations is coming
up.
We have 20 registered student organizations so far.
number is growing pretty much weekly at this point.
That
We had a
resurgence in student clubs and organizations.
exciting.
That is incredibly
We had some professional groups emerge, EEE, the
Association of Facilities Engineers and a few others are back up and
running.
Students are really showing an interest in getting
involved with student clubs and organizations.
So I look forward
to hearing from them regularly.
Another really great new thing we have going on in the Student
Life Office that I wanted to share is the online Student Life
Porthole.
It's called The Porthole, appropriately.
web page that has a virtual bulletin board.
all student organizations.
It an online
Discussion groups list
So students can actually research what
organizations are on campus and they can actually click to join that
student organization, an e-mail is generated and sent to the
president of that student organization letting them know that your
student is interested in joining the club.
invite them to the next meeting.
They will contact them,
It's really wonderful.
The Student Life Office also posts upcoming events and
activities.
Student clubs are posted.
in and see what's going on.
It's a great place to check
Because it's online you, as a parent
or family members and friends can also view it.
can see what's going on around campus.
I can give to you.
So that you guys
I have the website here which
If you e-mail me, I will be happy to e-mail you
the link.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
RACHEL LERNER:
Can you get to it from the Maritime home page?
You would click on the Maritime Student Life
button on the side.
It will say The Porthole.
While you're unable
to log in as a student and actually join organizations, it might be
interesting.
You can log in as a guest and view and see what kind
of fun thinks are going on around campus.
Speaking of meeting friends who live near you, we have a new
and improved ride bulletin board.
Hopefully, students will post
information and can carpool and find rides home.
soon as well.
That will be online
So that the students can try and carpool, share on
gas and tolls with people who live in the same area.
We encourage
students to do that.
Also, we just repositioned a board in a much more high traffic
and visible area.
There are currently no postings. It only works
as well as the students who use it.
to post their information.
Encourage your sons and daughters
Maybe they catch a ride home instead of
paying the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge.
That's it for all the
Student Life stuff.
One thing I did want to sort of throw out your way is
I had a couple of weeks ago.
an idea
I wanted to share that with you.
My
idea was doing a joint event between Student Life and parents in the
way of family and friends pot luck dinner on campus either on a Friday
or Sunday night.
I would be happy to chair that effort and get things
going if there is interest from the Parents Association.
RITA GRAVES: We can put it out as an e-mail blast.
RACHEL LERNER:
I'd like to throw it out to see what happens.
It might be a great way for families and friends
to be here with
students and talk about stuff, have a home-cooked meal here.
See
where it goes.
Then finally, one of my various hats that I wear on campus is
overseeing the student mail room.
This is sort of a public service
announcement for the student mail room.
campus are assigned a mailbox.
All students who live on
They can check that mailbox 24 hours
a day 7 days a week if they know their mailbox number and their
combination.
We encourage them to remember their mailbox number and
combinations.
days a week.
So that they can check their mail 24 hours a day 7
They don't have to wait for the mail room to be actually
open.
Please, please encourage your student to check their mail
regularly.
At this point in the semester, about 5 or 6 weeks in,
we have hundreds of students on campus who have yet to pick up their
mailbox number and combination.
Numerous e-mails -- I counted
before I left my office today -- eight e-mails have gone out to the
student body encouraging them to check their mailbox number and
combination as well as weekly announcements in the Student Activity
Newsletter, the Porthole, and various other ways.
RITA GRAVES:
SARA WALSH:
their mail.
Tell them there's a check in there.
Once again please encourage your student to check
The college sends important information to them.
if they're not expecting mail they might have mail.
Even
We have student
parking tickets, jury summons and they have no idea. Please encourage
them to check their mail.
To insure mail is delivered in a timely
manner it has to be addressed properly.
not just Cadet Smith.
That includes the full name
We have many Cadet Smiths here on campus.
When you are addressing mail to your student or sending packages,
they love to get mail and packages, please make sure you address it
with their full name, Maritime College, mailbox number, 6 Pennyfield
Avenue, Bronx 10465.
That way our mailroom staff doesn't have to
look up each individual letter for the name and mailbox number.
delivered fast if it's addressed properly.
It's
We have become very good
at being mail room detectives trying to find out who Cadet Smith is.
Lots of funny stories.
a lot of information.
That's about all I have.
I have thrown out
I'm sure you have questions for me.
I would
be happy to -AUDIENCE MEMBER:
comedy clubs?
How do you get all that information about the
Is it through the newsletter?
SARA WALSH:
They get the information in a variety of ways.
There are paper flyers that are hanging all around the campus in the
academic buildings, in the residence halls, all the bulletin boards,
above the mailboxes which would be the high traffic areas, in the
dining halls.
Those also go out via electronic flyers, weekly
student activities newsletter. They're announced in some classes,
depending on the instructor, and they are on the Porthole, our student
activities newsletter.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: What did you call the car pool -RACHEL LERNER:
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
The ride board.
You said about it being available online.
RACHEL LERNER:
That's in the works.
That should be available,
I'm hoping, by November 1st.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
RACHEL LERNER:
Where?
That will be on the Porthole as well.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Where do you find the Porthole?
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
On the website.
RACHEL LERNER:
I can you give the web address for right now
or you can get it from the Maritime College home page.
RITA GRAVES:
The car pooling that you are talking about, is
it strictly for students?
RACHEL LERNER:
RITA GRAVES:
The bulletin board?
For car pooling.
RACHEL LERNER:
RITA GRAVES:
Can the parents access that, too?
Sure.
I don't see why not.
We are doing the same thing.
We have parents in
need of rides.
RACHEL LERNER:
samples.
There's a bulletin board with thumb tacks and
You post your information and hopefully you can --
RITA GRAVES:
I'm talking about the online system.
RACHEL LERNER:
It is only that students can access it at the
moment.
RITA GRAVES:
Okay.
RACHEL LERNER:
Thank you very much.
You will need to log on as a student to post
your thing on The Porthole.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
You need to log in to read it.
this guy needs a ride to Massapequa.
I live there.
You can see,
Who cares.
But
as a parent, if I look and I said, well, he's living in the same town.
I would call my daughter and say, hey, this guy needs a ride.
Why
don't you ask him.
RACHEL LERNER:
I may be able to set it up that people who log
in as a guest can view it, however, not post to it.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
RACHEL LERNER:
We are still setting it up now.
bulletin board is up.
into that.
That is to view?
As of now, the
The online is coming on soon.
I will look
It's great a suggestion.
RITA GRAVES:
RACHEL LERNER:
Thank you very much, Rachel.
I'll leave my cards up here if anyone wants to
grab one.
RITA GRAVES:
On our website at SUNYMaritime.org, if you take
a look, we have lots of information on that website.
some pictures from Homecoming.
We just posted
Please take a look.
We are also going to start -- we have been getting a lot of
parents' requests about car pooling, too.
for us.
It's a work in progress
What we are thinking about doing is setting up a Facebook
account so we are going to put a link onto SUNYMaritime.org.
We are
going to have a link to Facebook where parents who are interested
in car sharing or car pooling can post their information and you can,
once you're on that Facebook account, you can get in touch with the
person who maybe lives in Seaford a couple of blocks from you.
can contact them directly.
on it.
It's a work in progress.
You
We are working
Please visit us at SUNYMaritime.org and click on the link for
Facebook.
We are going to have it up by next week.
Stephanie, I just wanted to remind you that you volunteered to
do the hosting for next meeting.
Thank you.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I have a question.
wanted to know:
It's a weird question.
I
I'm always coming through the Throgs Neck Bridge.
Is there like a discount?
RITA GRAVES:
There are no discounts.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
RITA GRAVES:
Sometimes EZPass --
We all have the same thing.
We all feel your
pain.
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
RITA GRAVES:
And gas prices, too.
We all feel your pain.
One very important announcement before we break, Summer Sea Term
2010, as soon as we get information about what's going on and all
the changes, we will let you know.
It's my promise to you that as
soon as we find out, we will get the information to you.
also have a special meeting on it.
November 13th.
We will
Our next meeting is Friday,
I will see you all then.
Thank you very much.
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Minutes taken and transcribed by Donna Clark, Recording
Secretary, Maritime Parents Association.