April 18, 2007

Chapter Luncheon Meeting Minutes

Golf Tournament -- Paul Rux updated the membership on the status of our May 14th Golf Tournament for Scholarships.

Certification -- David Cribbs updated the membership on the CPP Review Schedule and on the status of the upcoming reviews for PSP and PCI.

Membership -- Kevin Galloway updated the membership on new members.

Placement -- Mike Mason, CPP, announced job openings and requests for any notices of openings.

Corporate Security Roundtable -- Chuck Hutchinson announced that the Roundtable would soon be offering Virtual Seminars as the new conference room at Greenway Plaza was now ready.

Special Announcement -- Mike Crocker, CPP, RVP, announced that our prior year Chapter President, John Brady was in M.D. Anderson Cancer Center receiving treatment for two kinds of leukemia and asked for prayers and visitation.

Public Safety / Law Enforcement Liaison -- Greg H. Walker, Esq., CPP, ARM, announced that due to an unforeseen emergency that the Harris County Deputy Sheriff scheduled for April had to be rescheduled for May.

Speaker -- Elwood "Woodie" Norris, Chairman & Founder of American Technology Corporation talked and demonstrated the use of "directed sound technologies" in security and military applications. Noting, among other things, that these devices were deployed in Iraq by the U.S. Military, had been used by NYPD for crowd control and by a cruise liner in off the coast of Somalia to repeal pirates in high speed boats armed with .50 cal. machine guns. He also demonstrated how directed sound technology was used in commercial retail applications to provide a customer in front of a specific display a marketing message, while the customer immediately to either side did not hear the message, but heard the one for the display they were standing in front of.