HEADQUARTERS REPORT 3/1/03 – 6/30/03

MEMBERSHIP

MEMBER STATISTICS

	2003	2002
Total New Members (3/31 - 6/30)	501	454
-Regular	145	191
-Student/Preprofessional	250	205
-Student Transfers	60	27
-Reinstates	46	31
Total Members (as of 6/30)	8,289	8,237
-Regular	6,590	6,582
-Student/Preprofessional	1,699	1,655
Total Developing Country Members (as of 6/30)	173	160
-$15 Dues	95	96
-$35 Dues	57	35
-$55 Dues	34	29

RETENTION

	2003 Paid	2002 Paid
Total Invoiced	6,989/8,426 = 83%	7,007/8,435 = 83%
-Regular	6,045/6,824 = 89%	6,098/6,921 = 88%
-Student/Preprofessional	944/1,602 = 59%	909/1,514 = 60%

Invoicing 2003

Third invoices were mailed 3/8 with an e-mail reminder sent 3/24. On 4/8, we dropped 1,537 members for non-payment of dues. This number was comprised of 884 regular members and 653 preprofessional/student members. Combined with the 130 members that requested to be dropped between 10/1/02 and 4/7/03, the total number of members who were taken out of membership was 1,667.

A final e-mail reminder was sent on 4/23 to all unpaid members. A few weeks later, an exit survey with a final invoice was mailed to all non-student members on 5/12. A final e-mail blast was sent to all students on 5/13 notifying them that their memberships had been dropped and asking them to reinstate. We continue to have members renew their memberships daily.

Sections & Student Branches

Visits were made to Arizona, Central Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio and a combined Georgia/Tennessee section meeting. Feedback from the sections continues to help headquarters serve them better.

Section Officer Update electronic newsletters were sent to section officers, the Membership Development Council and the ASAE leadership on 3/31 and 6/13 with headquarters news and updates. More and more sections are taking the information and publishing it in their section newsletters and posting it on their Web sites.

Preprofessional/Student Outreach

The Preprofessional Officers in conjunction with headquarters staff developed the first newsletter aimed specifically towards ASAE student branches. It was e-mailed on 4/4 and contained information of interest to preprofessionals such as activities at the Las Vegas meeting as well as regional highlights of preprofessional activities. The next newsletter is scheduled to go out in October.

New Member Outreach

A new member newsletter was sent by e-mail on 4/1 to all members who joined ASAE within the last year. The newsletter highlighted information especially targeted to new member interests. These newsletters are a part of an overall New Member Program developed within the last year to get new members involved in ASAE programs and activities from the start.

Quarter Scale Tractor Student Design Competition

The sixth annual Quarter Scale Tractor Student Design Competition was held 5/29 – 6/1 in East Moline, IL. Thirty first teams and 15 X-teams from across the U.S. and Canada competed. Kansas State University reclaimed their title this year with Université Laval taking second by only a slight margin (26 points out of a total 2,100). The University of Kentucky took third, with the Oklahoma State University and Michigan State University teams placing fourth and fifth respectively. The competition gained coverage from the Quad City Times, The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, and the local NBC TV station affiliate. Quarter Scale banquet host Max Armstrong also had coverage of the event on his 6/2 WGN radio program U.S. Farm Report.

Chicago’s WTTW, Channel 11 Wild Chicago segment featured the Past Presidents’ 1/4 Scale Tractor Pull from last year’s Annual International Meeting. It aired 4/13 and again on 4/19.