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I hope everyone is having a good fall semester. I know Rick Cleary and the folks at Bentley University have been working hard on our fall Section meeting and I hope that you will join us. This summer the Board of Governors met in Madison, Wisconsin prior to Mathfest. Overall we learned the MAA continues to be in good shape. Financially we are sound, although the budget deficit for 2007 of about $278 is a concern. Investments were doing well relative to the market. Recently we heard from our Treasurer John Kenelly that our diversified and conservative investment strategy will serve us well in these challenging times. In particular, we are heavily invested in cash investments. Although we expect some losses, we are not vulnerable to the more risky investments that are currently in serious trouble. (You can get more details from Rick Cleary at the fall meeting.) On the membership front we continue to look for ways to maintain our members and attract new members. Currently we are focusing on institutional memberships and how to best encourage and serve international members. If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. MAA is continuing with its strategic planning process. The board acted on some of the recommendations of the governance report, realigning the council and committee structure and setting up a committee to revise the bylaws. We also voted to have committee membership terms last 3 years and 1 month to allow for overlap of membership at the January meetings. During the current strategic planning cycle we are looking at Meetings, Sections, STEM issues and Publications. On the publications front, Frank Farris has stepped back in to serve as interim editor of Math Magazine. To keep up with what’s happening in the MAA and the mathematics community in general, I encourage you to check out the MAA website regularly. It is frequently updated with interesting pictures, news items and columns. If anyone has any issues they would like me to bring to the January Board of Governors meeting, please let me know. I hope to see you at the fall section meeting at Bentley and at the Joint Meetings in Washington. The full Newsletter in PDF Format