... With the beginning term of a new Board of Trustees, AAAP would like to thank Michele Novatski (past Program Chair) and Mark Jaworsky (past Secretary) for their dedicated work for the club in 2004-05. ... The AAAP Observatory is in top gear now, with public star watch sessions held the first and last Friday of each month throughout the spring and summer at the AAAP's Washington Crossing Observatory. ... Newly elected program chair Ken Kramer requested member suggestions on future programs for the...

Rep ort by the ESA-ESO Working Group on Galactic p opulations, chemistry and dynamics Abstract Between the early 40s, when Baade showed the first evidence for the existence of two distinct stellar populations, and today, with our Galaxy surprising us with new substructures discovered almost on a monthly basis, it is clear that a remarkable progress has been achieved in our understanding of the Galaxy, of its structure and stellar populations, and of its chemical and dynamical signatures. Yet, some questions