A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the above Corporation was held on January 11th, 2002, at 8:30PM, in Lehman building Room 219 at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida.

Quorum. A quorum was declared present, based on the presence of the following five 2001 board members of the Haitian American Association of Engineers and Scientists:
Noe Dorestant (Chairman)
Marc Antoine Leveille (Vice-Chairman)took part by phone.
Jean L. Bosquet (Secretary)was contacted by phone shortly.
Romain Preal (Public Relation officer)
Max Massac (Treasurer)

Absent. Absent were the following 2001 board members: Florentin Maurasse, Olivier Jean Baptiste, Irving Elizee, Patrick Merisier.

Attendance. In attendance were the following HAES members: Serge Joseph, Guy Felix and Peter Kammeyer, and on the phone: Jocelyn David and Gladys Durand.

Visitors. Johnson Napoleon Coordinator of University Lumiere, Haiti and Mr. Viter Juste.

1. 2002 Board Officers Election

   The old 2001 board of Directors was symbolically dissolved by the Chairman, Noe Dorestant to allow the year 2002 officers election of the HAES board of Directors to take place as is required by the Bylaws.

   The 2002 officers election of the board of director began after HAES regular members: Serge Joseph and Guy Felix were selected to head the temporary HAES year 2002 election committee.

   Quorum. A quorum was declared present, based on the presence of the following seven board members for the 2002 board of directors:
   
   Noe Dorestant
   Max Massac
   Romain Preal
   Peter Kammeyer
   Marc Leveille (by phone)
   Jocelyn David (by phone)
   Gladys Durand (by phone)

   Absent. Absent were the following 2002 board members:
   Jean L Bosquet(due to urgency)
   Sevigne Castor (due to urgency)

   Noe Dorestant was nominated as Chairman, nomination which he accepted.

   Marc Leveille was nominated as Chairman, nomination which he he accepted.

   The result of the vote was 5 votes in favor of Noe Dorestant and 2 votes in favor of Marc Leveille. Noe Dorestant was there- fore reelected as HAES Chairman for the year 2002, by a 2/3 majority vote.

   Marc A. Leveille was nominated as Vice-Chaiman, nomination which he accepted and was voted in unopposed, unanimously.

   Romain Preal was nominated as Secretary, nomination which he accepted and was voted in unopposed, unanimously.

   Max Massac was nominated as Treasurer, nomination which he accepted and was voted in unanimously.

   Jocelyn David was nominated as Coordinator, nomination which he accepted and was voted in unanimously.

   Peter Kammeyer was nominated as Public Relation officer, position which he accepted and was voted in unanimously.

   The remaining board members at large are: Jean L. Bosquet, Gladys Durand and Sevigne Castor.

   HAES member and head of the election committee, Serge Joseph and the Chairman elect, Noe Dorestant sworn in the year 2002 HAES board of directors.

2. Noe Dorestant was Chairman and Guy Felix was asked to volunteer to take notes as interim Secretary to assist the Chairman in preserving some record of the meeting proceedings, since the newly elected Secretary was unable to perform his task immediately due to a middle finger injury.

   Reports:

3. Report by Noe Dorestant. Report by Noe Dorestant. Noe reported that HAES paticipated at the Haiti's month celebration "From a legacy of Freedom to an explosion of culture" at the request of President Eric Boucicaut and Vice-President Mrs. Margaret Armand of Action Foundation. The event took place at the Broward main Library at 100 South Andrew Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During the last day of the event HAES conducted a memberships drive and delivered two scholarships to the two deserving winners of the HAES 2001 scholarship award, namely: Gina Jean Francois with a 4.409 GPA and Irmanie Eliacin with a 4.718 GPA. Both students attended the Miami Museum of Upward Bound Program for gifted students and the G. Holmes Bradlock Senior High school International special magnet program.
   
   

   HAES's 2001 Chairman, Noe' Dorestant during memberships drive at the Broward Main Library on the occasion of Haiti's month celebration organized by the President of Action Foundation (Mr. Eric Boucicault), Vice-Pesident of Action Foundation(Mrs. Margaret Armand), the HAES Public Relation Officer (Mr. Romain Preal) , HAES member at large (Mr. Jocelyn David) and HAES Vice-Chairman (Mr. Marc A. Leveille).

   Noe Dorestant also reported that he received a scholarship thank you note from Gina Jean-Francois as well.

   Noe also reported that Raymond Santiago, President of the SEFLIN Board of Directors, awarded him the SEFLIN Free-Net Partners Award 2001 for contributing to the success of the Seflin Free-Net, South Florida's first community network.

   

   HAES Chairman Noe Dorestant and fellow Information Providers during the South East Florida Library Information Network Award ceremony of 2001.

   Noe also reported that Mrs. Margaret Armand, Chairperson of the Multi-Ethnic Advisory Board, awarded him a Certificate of Award of the Broward County Board of County Commissioners Broward County Multi-Ethnic Advisory board, in recognition of Outstanding and dedicated Community service.

4. Report by Max Massac. Max made the treasurer report and presented an up to date report of the HAES 2001 transactions.

5. Report by Peter Kammeyer. Peter reported that he had submitted to University of London a proposed curriculum for the center of distance learning and geography to be established in Jacmel sometime in the future.

6. Report by Marc Antoine Leveille. Marc Antoine reported that further discussion on the fact finding mission for the creation of a center of distance learning will take place on 1/12/2002.

7. Report by Johnson Napoleon. Johnson gave a brief overview of the University Lumiere, their current school of studies and the poten- tial for HAES to work together with ULUM to help advance education in Haiti.