Considering there is a committee constituted by the President of AAM, I believe it
would have been appropriate to have you touch base at least with other members of
the committee. If you take the approach of of a one person committee then you cannot
expect other to step up to the plate. Good work thus far but I think you should have
at least briefed members of the committee appointed by the President rather take a
broadcast approach.
"Katim S. Touray" wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry I missed the meeting! I hope I will not be banished, or fined a cow (like
> happened to Presideht Mbeki) for the crime.
>
> For your information, I called Sen. Feingold's Middleton office on Fri., Oct.
> 20, and talked with Jenny Hassemer, Assistant Scheduler. I asked her the
> procedures for inviting Sen. Feingold to functions like we are intending, and
> she told me the following:
>
> 1. We need to send him an invitation indicating:
> a) Who the Senator is going to meet
> b) What we would like him to talk about and/or what the function will be
> for
> c) Possible dates for the meeting
> 2. We can send the invitation to the Senator's Middleton Office, and indicate
> that it is for Ms. Hassemers attention
> 3. Given that we are coming up to the elections, we should aim for the last 2
> weeks of November, or the first 2 weeks of December for possible meeting dates.
>
> I told her that I will contact our President, and work with the others he'd
> assigned to task of putting together the meeting, and we'll get back to her when
> we've sorted out the details. In this regard, I would like to suggest the
> following:
>
> 1. What will be the nature of the chat? We can have anything from a
> full-blown, sit-down dinner to a simple meeting with the snacks and such. It's
> really up to us.
>
> 2. We at least allow for the Senator to talk about US-Africa relations, and
> issues of concern to our community. For your information, Sen. Feingold is a
> member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committtee, as well as that Committee's
> Africa Sub-Committee. For this reason, he has been very active in US-Africa
> relations. It would thus be beneficial to him and us for him to get to meet our
> community and get to have a sense of the diversity of the African constituency
> in the Madison area. I envisage a give-and-take chat, where we'll follow an
> address from the Senator with a question-and-answer session with him. We might
> eat, drink, and/or dance after that.
>
> 3. We should also decide on a time-frame for having our chat. This way, we can
> provide the Senator a number of choices of dates to choose from.
>
> 4. Once we have a date, I can work with other members of the Committee assigned
> by our President to draft and invitation letter, and send it to the President
> for his approval. He can then sign the final version, and send it out
> officially. I told Ms. Hassemer at Sen. Feingold's office that I'll call her
> after we send the invitation letter to follow-up on it.
>
> 5. Given that we would not know exactly what date will work for the Senator, if
> at all he'd be able to meet with us, we might think of reserving venue(s) for
> the dates we are shooting for. This, of course, assumes that we would have
> decided on the format for our meeting with Sen. Feingold, and hence would have
> decided on our requirements for a venue.
>
> That's about all that comes to my mind right now. Please send any comments
> and/or suggestions you have about how we can go about this so that we can get it
> done in the most timely, and effective manner. Have a great week, and best
> wishes.
>
> Katim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ademola Iyi-eweka <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:51 PM
> Subject: Senator Feingold's chat
>
> > The membership of African Association at the genral meeting held on the 14th
> > Oct 2000, restated their desire to have a chat with Senator Feingold. I
> > have therefore reconstituted the committee responsible for examining the
> > modus operandi for this CHAT, issues that will be discussed and when it will
> > take place.
> >
> > Members of the committee are as follows:
> >
> > a) Godwin Amegashie
> >
> > b) Katim Touray ( chairman )
> >
> > c) Pierre Gbedey
> >
> > d) Felix Ossia
> >
> > Members are also advised to send their concerns by private mail to the
> > president, who will forward them to the committee.
> >
> > Thanks for your service to AAM INC
> >
> >
> > Ademola Iyi-Eweka
> > President AAM INC
> > Tel:608-833-8248
>
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