• Get an e-mail list of committee members from the previous chair, and then create a mailing list in your e-mail to communicate with other committee members.
• Prepare an agenda for the meeting.
• Pass along key information to vice-chair, and archive it on the website. Use the website to share info with other committee members. If you have information to post on the website, let Linda Haugen (lhaugen) know @fs.fed.us
• Responsibilities of committee chairs is posted on the APS website in Section 30 of the APS Manual of Operations (revised 2009) at: http://www.apsnet.org/about/governance/Documents/MOOApproved.pdf

The excerpted section of this webpage is posted here as a docx file: ExcerptOnSubjectMatterCommittees.docx

• Remember that this is a volunteer organization, and be appreciative of the contributions others are making, even if it is "not the way you would have done it".