The 1999-2000 year for the Pacific Lutheran University Chemistry Club can best be described by the following quote, "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door" (Milton Burrow). The club started off running with activities and events and didn't stop until the school year was over. In fact, the club was somewhat like that pesky little mole that will not stop tunneling, overcomes barriers and traps, and makes a lasting impression. This past year has been marked by significant student commitment to make the club an important and integral component of the Department of Chemistry by offering interesting, unique, and collaborative programming.

Activities that the club sponsored or participated in were many and varied. Events included:

• Member recruitment at the September Student Involvement and Activities Fair;
• An ACS Career workshop
• A campus-wide National Mole Day Celebration including "mole" cake, dirt, and raffle in October
• Developing chemical demonstrations for a middle school outreach program
• A presentation on clinical investigations in December
• PLU Arrow Day and ice cream-making;
• Set-up, ice cream-making and judging at the PLU/Intel South Sound Regional Science Fair in February
• The PLU 5K Lute Loop 2000 Run/Walk on April 1
• The mildly-popular Ethanol Appreciation Day in May.

• Attending several ACS Puget Sound section symposia throughout the year
• Producing an e-mail club newsletter
• Attending and presenting at both the

 
• March ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA and the
• ACS Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium at Western Washington University in May

(See the article about the ACS Meeting in San Francisco and the Symposium at Western Washington Univeristy)
 
• and having many fun and unique planning meetings.

Outgoing officers were:

• President Gretchen Voge ('00)
• Vice President Sara Hockert ('02)
• Secretaries Sarah Ransel ('01) and Nikki Pressman ('02)
• Treasurer Rebecca Summerer ('02), Newsletter Editor Becky Mathews ('02)
• "Honorary" Board Members Erica Hunter ('03), Katherine Maloney ('00), and Sasha Stensen ('00).

• President Jason Higbee ('03)
• Vice President Elizabeth Cox ('03)
• Secretary/Treasurer Erica Hunter ('03)