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American Reading Forum
22nd Annual Business Meeting
Sundial Resort
7 December 2001
1. Welcome and Opening
Announcements Hager
Meeting called to order at 5:15
PM. Suzanne Lapp spoke of her—and
our—sadness at the death of her mentor and best friend, long-time ARF member
Barbara Stone, who passed away in July of this year.
2. Approval of Agenda Hager
The agenda was approved as
submitted.
3. Approval of Minutes Hager
Minutes of 30 April 2001 Board
meeting held in New Orleans approved with the following spelling
corrections: Sara should be Sarah
Dowhower, Ray Wolpow not Walpow, and George Hruby, not Ruby. Jane praised the present Board members for
their dedication and service to ARF and presented Ray Wolpow and Donna
Alvermann (in absentia) with certificates for their participation on the Board.
4. Treasurer’s Report Dowhower
We are in better financial shape
than last year thanks to the raise in dues.
The report was approved and we all gave kudos to Sarah for her excellent
and diligent work as treasurer.
5. Committee Reports
a. Nominations and Elections (Hager)
Suzanne Lapp and Bob Schlagel are new
Board members. Missy Laine will be chair
in 2002 with Laurie Elish-Piper serving as
vice-chair. Bob and other members from
Appalachian State have stepped in, upon Barbara Stone’s death, to coordinate
next year’s conference.
b. Membership (Dowhower for Townsend)
We have 96 paid attendees and 101 paid
members.
c. Yearbook/Editorial Advisory (Trathen)
Last yearbook submissions numbered 28 of
which 4 were accepted outright, 4 rejected,
and 20 returned to authors for
revision. Of these 20, 17 were accepted
and 3 rejected.
Only one keynoter, George Hruby, submitted
a paper
d.
Conference Program, 2001
(Bristor)
Forty-seven proposals were received for
this year’s conference and 42 were
scheduled. One presentation was cancelled and 107
presenters are listed in
the index to the program. Valerie thanked Gary Moorman for stepping in
to do the
keynote, and acknowledged Jerry Johns
for his luncheon speech.
e. Call To Forum (Wolpow)
Our co-sponsored presentation at IRA was
very well-attended and it generated a
two page mailing list of possible members. The CRA-ARF joint session was also
well-received and attended and it is his
expectation that next year’s co-presentations
will also be successful. Ray commented on the excellence of this
year’s Forum.
f.
Budget (Dowhower)
We should break even this year and end
with a cushion of about $4000.00.
g.
Graduate Student Mentoring/Scholarship (Bullock)
The committee. presented scholarship
awards to Laurie Palmer, Appalachian State University; Maureen Giblin,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kriistina Montero,
University of Georgia; and Michelle Love, Pat McBeth, and Renee Roseum all of
Bowling Green State University. Two
recipients, Helen Robbins and Lynn Yribarren, were
not at the Business Meeting.
h.
Site Selection (Hager)
The Sundial is booked through 2003
g.
Public Relations (Gillespie-Hendricks for Cochran)
The Shrimp Fest is ready to go tonight in
Room S202.
i.
Archives (Jerrolds)
The archives are complete.
j. Bylaws (Bristor for Alvermann)
No proposed changes for this year.
6. Old Business
Sarah reported on our tax-exempt
status. We paid $500.00 for our Federal
ID number. We are now 501.3C
designees. Both Wisconsin and Florida
have granted us tax-exempt status and Wisconsin will give us a four or five
year refund. Florida granted the
exemption just this year. The Sundial
will include sales tax and gratuity when computing the $7000.00 we are committed
to pay them each year.
7. New Business
Dates for the 2002 conference
have been changed to December 7-9, with the Board meeting held on December 6th. Rebecca Barr and Darrel Morris will keynote
and the conference title is “Looking Forward, Looking Back: Reading at the Crossroads.” The 2003
conference will be coordinated by the University of Cincinnati and is titled
“Reading Research: Has It Made a
Difference in Student Learning?”
Gary Moorman led a discussion
around whether we should make the ARF Yearbook an electronic-only
publication. He believes it will save
money; provide improved access, and better archiving. He gave the figure of $2500 for this year’s
journal, and thinks it will only get cheaper.
Problems with this format include:
some people have no online access, and on-line articles are sometimes
not considered in tenure decisions. An
offprint could be made at small cost for those who choose not to use the
electronic version. Motion
(Hutchinson/Ransom) to approve was passed.
Jane gave thanks to Appalachian
State for their fine work on the Yearbook.
Missy Laine and Woody Trathen
presented Jane with a number of small (and silly) gifts and we all gave Jane
accolades for her year as president.
Meeting adjourned at 6:10 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Alice Randlett
Secretary