(Biltmore Estate)
Southern Association of Forensic
Scientists
Fall 2000 Meeting
Asheville, North Carolina
September 10-13, 2000
The Southern Association of Forensic
Scientists Fall 2000 Meeting will be held at the Great Smokies Holiday Inn
SunSpree Resort in Asheville, North Carolina. The North Carolina State
Bureau of Investigation is looking forward to hosting this great event.
Asheville is nestled on a large plateau in the middle of the
Blue Ridge Mountains. The area includes a number of attractions within driving
distance, including The Biltmore Estate, The Cherokee Indian Reservation, The
Blue Ridge Parkway and the Folk Arts Center, The North Carolina State Arboretum
, and Mt. Mitchell State Park, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park just
to get started. A short trolley bus ride puts you in historic Downtown Asheville
for local micro-breweries, restaurants, and shopping. Rafting, kayaking,
mountain biking, hiking, camping, fly-fishing, and horseback riding are
available locally, most only minutes from the hotel. The Great Smokies Holiday
Inn SunSpree (www.sunspree.com) is a golf
and tennis resort with many amenities to make your stay very comfortable. Rooms
for the meeting are $89.00 plus tax, and larger rooms are available.
Please reserve your room by calling 1-800-733-3211 and mention the
Southern Association of Forensic Scientists before Friday, August 11, 2000, or
the room block will be released. Ms. Tina Porter will be glad to assist you in
reservations.
The Meeting will open with registration on Sunday and a full
reception on Sunday evening. Monday will devoted to workshops, and Tuesday will
follow with workshops, juried papers and the business meeting and tours if time
allows. Wednesday will conclude the meeting with section papers. See the following
tentative schedule for further information.
A luncheon is planned for Tuesday, September 12 and the
banquet is scheduled for Tuesday evening – an outdoor event by the pool under the
Blue Ridge Mountain starlit sky. Come and enjoy the late summer days in the
mountains at the Fall 2000 Conference.
meeting registration form (requires Adobe Acrobat)
PROGRAM
Sunday, September 10
Registration 3:00pm-6:00 pm
Hospitality Room 8:00pm-11:00pm
Monday, September 11
Registration 8:00 am-10:00 am
Workshops 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
Forensic Arson Analysis: “From the Scene, through the Canine to the
Laboratory”
(Full
day)
S/A (Ret.) L. C. Ford, NCSBI
S/A (Ret.) David Campbell,
S/A Ernie Bueker
S/A “Kingston”
“Duct Tape Manufactutre and
Analysis” (Afternoon)
Carter MacFarland, Quality
Assurance Manager, Shurtape
Technologies
“Preparing and Presenting DNA
Statistics for Court” (Full day)
Dr. Bruce Weir, PhD
Department of Statistics North Carolina State University
“Clandestine Drug Laboratories in
North Carolina” (Half day)
C/S Ken Razza, NCSBI
“Clandestine Laboratory Investigating
Chemist Association Perspectives on Clan Labs
DEA (Afternoon
session)
“Quality Assurance in the
Lab – ASCLD”
Instructor to be
announced (morning session)
ABC exams – Terry Mills,
proctor (Contact the ABC registrar at [email protected]
or 715-845-3684 for applications.)
Hospitality room open from 7:00 pm until
11:00pm
Tuesday, September 12
9:00 am – 9:15 am Welcome and Opening
Remarks
Brian Beatty,
Director – North Carolina
State Bureau of Investigation
9:15 am – 12:00 noon “Searching for a
Bomber : The Hunt for Eric Robert Rudolph“
FBI
Southeastern Bomb Task Force
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm SAFS Luncheon, Registrants
only
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Juried papers session
– Winner received $250.00! If you meet all the criteria to present a
juried paper, you are exempt from registration fees. If you need
information, contact John Wegel (404-242-4062)
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm SAFS Business Meeting
6:30 pm -7:30 pm Social Hour
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Banquet with featured
speaker Elizabeth Daniels Squire, local mystery writer and humorist.
Hospitality Room open after the banquet.
Wednesday, September 13
9:00 am – 12:00 noon Section Meetings
Meeting Chairpersons
Social Program: Joe Reavis
828-654-0525; [email protected]
General Program: Jim Gregory
919-662 4500; [email protected]
Drugs/Toxicology: Jay Pintacuda
828-654-0525; [email protected]
Serology: Catherine Cross
318-365-6671; [email protected]
Trace: Tim French 704-336-7750;
Juried Papers: John Wegel
404-212-4062; [email protected]
ABC Program: Terry Mills
404-244-2787; [email protected]