S4C REPORT FOR JULY 2017

S4C REPORT FOR JULY 2017
By Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA, DFS4C
On June 24, 2017, Nan Carder (S4C Nature Chairman), Terri Garner (S4C Treasurer), Chris Wilkins (Board of Directors), and David Wilkins (S4C President), traveled to Redlands California for the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs (S4C) board of director’s meeting.
Terri has done a wonderful job changing the book keeping system to QuickBooks.
The S4c Level Assignments for next year were determined.
There were changes in some of the Division Sections definitions. Those changes can be found by reading the definitions in the Divisions at this webpage:
https://www.s4c-photo.org/competitions/definitions/
Stuart Lynn has developed software to help individuals avoid duplicate image re-entries.
S4C will be changing image sizes to 1400x1280 in the 2018-2019 competition year.
The Delegates Program will continue. A responsibility list will be developed.
Stuart Lynn is developing an online system for S4C Honors. The system will be designed so that Awards and HMs will be automatically added to the on-line system.
S4C has entered the Photographic Society of America’s Council Challenge. The results will be presented at the 2017 PSA Conference in Pittsburg, PA. S4C Award images and makers from this year’s Council Challenge will be presented at the 2017-2018 Annual S4C Awards Banquet in June 2018.
Joanne Stolte trained six (6) new judges from S4C clubs this past year.
The next S4C meeting will be November 11, 2017, along with the presentation of the winning images from the November S4C competition.