Message from Chair Tommy Ratliff Wheaton College, Norton, MA

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Greetings!   I hope everyone's semester is off to a fantastic start. It was wonderful to see so many of you at Boston University in June  for the Spring Section Meeting. The entire meeting was fantastic, including the Invited Speakers, Undergraduate Student Papers, Graduate Student Papers, Contributed  Papers, and our Section Project NExT. A great deal of credit for making the entire weekend run so smoothly goes to the local  organizers and the staff at BU. Paul Blanchard, in particular, deserves a tremendous "Thank You" from the Section. Our Fall Meeting at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, also promises to be another wonderful event for both faculty and students.   Julie Levandosky and June Decker are planning a very interesting program, and Rob Poodiack and Jason Molitierno are organizing the Section's first student team Collegiate Mathematics Competition.  Start recruiting those student teams now!   All information about the meeting will be posted at the Section website:  http://www.maa.org/Northeastern. The Executive Committee and others have continued the discussion of  the purpose of the Section Meetings, and this led to the web survey that I hope many of you have completed.  The goal of the Section is to meet the needs and interests of the members, so your feedback is very important.  If you have any thoughts or suggestions for what you would like from the Section, please send them to me or any of the Section officers. I look forward to seeing many of you at Sacred Heart in November!