Location: Millstream Cafe, Penn State University, Mount Alto Campus - Mount Alto, Pennsylvania

Agenda:

Saturday (17 January)
Meeting and Program at Penn State U

9:30 - Sign-in and Registration (no charge)

10:00 - Call to Order, Welcome by Steve Cummings.
Announcements, Approval of Minutes of 2003 meetings.

10:15 - Chairman's Annual Report

10:30 - Treasurer's Report, Preliminary discussion of 2004 budget.

10:45 - Reports of the Regional Vice Chairs including State Reports.

11:30 - Project Reports
·-Historian/Archivist
·-Webmaster
·-FFLA Answerman
·-Editor, LOOKOUT NETWORK
·-Membership
·-FFLA Brochures: Distribution and Results
·-Report of Election Committee

12:00 - Lunch (buy your own, Millstream Café, same building)

1:00 - Group Picture. (in front of Wiestling Hall)

1:10 - Historic Presentation……Wiestling Hall.

1:30 - Old Business (return Millstream Café)
·-Fire Tower Restoration Grants
·-Lookout Inspection Reports
·-First Reports Task Group
·-Fire Tower "Bone yard", How can we do it?
·-Meeting Minutes to website

2:00 - New Business

2:15 - Approval of 2004 FFLA Budget

2:30 - Historian/Archives Working Group: Report and Group Discussion

3:00 - Coffee Break

3:15 - Historian/Archives Working Group discussion continues and concludes.

3:45 - Discussion of FFLA Strengths & Weaknesses
·-Summary of Bend OR exercise
·-Goal Setting

4:45 - Announcement of Eastern & Western Summer Meetings
·-Discussion of 2005 Annual Meeting Site (Invitations)
·-Wrap up Loose Ends
·-Description of Sunday's fire tower visits

5:00 - Adjourn (and take exercise break)

5:30 - Dinner (buy your own, Millstream Café )

6:45 - The Pennsylvania Fire Tower Experience:
A Discussion with Former Lookout Observers

Presentation of Early Fire Fighting Films

Socializing and Return to Motel

Sunday (18 January)
Tower Tours throughout the area. Meet at Steve Cumming's residence at 9AM. See below for directions.

Tower Tour Itinerary (in order of visit)
Tower 1 - Fairview Mountain Lookout, MD
Tower 2 - McClellans Lookout, MD
Tower 3 - Lambs Knoll, MD (tower is being removed soon)
Tower 4 - Hamburg, Mountain Lookout, MD
Tower 5 - Salimander Rock Lokout, MD
Tower 6 - Foxville Lookout, MD
Tower 7 - Quirauk Lookout, MD (status is tenative)
Tower 8 - Mount Dunlap, PA (status is tenative)

The meeting formally begins Saturday, but many are meeting Friday Evening for Dinner. Those that would like to meet for dinner Friday should meet at Steve Cumming's residence at 6pm.

Meet at:
2533 Falling Spring Rd
Chambersburg, PA
Park in a large parking lot across from Steve's residence.

Brief Directions:
Upon leaving Interstate rte 81 at exit 16 which is RT 30, go east at first set of lights you turn right onto Falling Spring RD. Follow Falling Springs RD. (road is narrow and winding) when the road forks, the left lane has a stop sign, you bear right up hill. Steve's house is on the left and the parking lot entrance is on the right across from his house.

Program:

Host Steve Cummings is planning a pleasant Saturday evening program that is both nostaligic and entertaining. The Sunday tour to nearby fire towers is being planned by Henry Isenberg and Bob Spear.

The ballots of the annual election will be counted and results announced during the Saturday session. The nominees are -

Chairman: Keith Argow
Eastern Deputy Chairman: Henry Isenberg
Treasurer: Gary Weber.

While only directors and officers cast ballots, members are encouraged to provide input to their chapter director. Any FFLA member in good standing is eligible to be nominated for any office.

Our sunday tower tour will take in 2 PA tower sites and 3 towers in northern MD. In addition, possibly 2 other towers one each in MD and PA, all in the area of Hagerstown, MD.

Directions and Maps

Penn State University, Mount Alto Campus
One Campus Drive
Mount Alto, PA 17237
717-749-6000 or 1-800-392-6173

Penn State Mount Alto Campus Map and Tour

Penn State Mount Also Campus Roadmaps

Lodging

List of area hotels