After the NIA Board of Trustees saw the facilities at Washoe Medical Center they unanimously agreed it was best for us to take up their generous offer... and fast! So, we will be having another meeting this month.. We will be changing our meeting date to the fourth Saturday of the month from 9 to noon. This will mean we will have classroom 101 at Washoe Medical Center for all of our meetings starting Saturday, April 26th. The room willhold a capacity of about forty people. It is completely equipped with audio and video equiptment, tables, chairs with small desk panels, and a sink. It has virtually we could want and the price is certainly right. It's free. Also in case we have any special events where we need many more it's just across from a large auditorium which we could use as necessary.
Parking is plentiful both in the lot and in a new multi-story garage, particularly on Saturday. Also there is a very plush Board Room for meetings of our Board of Trustees. During the week. Remedies is a fine gourmet restuarant which unfortunately is not open on Saturdays. Still, the hospital cafeteria is open seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. What more can we ask for? We will also be able able to order coffee or tea for the meetings. Now, how to get trere? It's a snap. If you merely stand facing the main hospital enterance, (above) and raise your right arm you'll be pointing at an enterance which says "Auditorium." Our room is directly across the hall for the Auditorium. Could anything be any easier? See you there at 9 a.m. on Saterday April 26, classroom #101 Washoe Med.
NIA member Dr. Bill Torch made the arrangements for our new accommodations. Insted of a hundred dollars each month our costs will be in the neighborhood of thirty dollars a month. We are grateful to Bill for his efforts on our behalf.
We had two great programs at our last meeting what with Charlie Ketchum and John Carcich, each with a different approach to marketing. Ketchum attempted to stimulate the membership to organize a "Gadget of the Month Club." John Carcich showed two major products of his own, a flower presentation and delivery system and a pictorial calender mouse pad and spoke of methods of marketing them.
Now Carcich reports Wal-Mart is interested in his flower delivery system and Microsoft in the mouse pad.
At our next meeting, Carcich has volunteered to give us a "marketing workshop" and intends to design individual marketing plans for a number of our members.
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On Thursday, April 17, omnibus H.B. 400 misleadingly called "The 21st Century Patent Improvement Act," was read in the House. At least that's what the news reports said. Can you imagine someone reading 95 pages to the House of Representatives. Wonder how so many of them nodded off. At any rate, no action was taken. If you haven't made your feelings known to Representative Jim Gibbons please call or write to him immediately and urge him to vote gginst it!
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Created on July 5 1997
Updated on July 2, 2004