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Minutes of the inaugural meeting June 7, 2001

Participants:

Woody Anderson, Les Atchley, Michael Birkholm, John Claerhut, Joe Kaplan, Bob King, Bruce Murdoch, Michael Pfeiffer, Noble Trenham, Amir Vishani, Robert Westover, Stuart Wilkinson, Gunnar J. Kuepper, Roy Follmuth

• Greetings by President Roy and Chairman Gunnar
  
  

• Self-introduction of the committee members
  
  

• The reason for the committee was explained
  (Meeting with RI President Frank Develyn in 1999)
  
  

• The Mission
  (TO PROMOTE EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, TO RAISE AWARENESS, AND TO ENCOURAGE IMPROVEMENTS IN DISASTER RESPONSE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS) was proposed and accepted.
  
  

• In the following discussion, every committee member agreed to collect some thoughts and share with fellow Rotarians his or her experience, knowledge, and potential needs for safety and disaster preparedness.