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American Reading Forum
23rd Annual
Business Meeting Minutes
Sundial Beach Resort,
Sanibel Island FL
9 December 2002
1. Opening
announcements M.
Laine
Missy
welcomed the members and announced the time and place for this evening’s Shrimp
Boil.
2. Approval
of Agenda M.
Laine
Agenda approved as
submitted.
3. Approval
of Minutes M.
Laine
The minutes of 7
December 2001 were approved as submitted.
4. Treasurer’s
Report Townsend for Dowhower
Sarah compiled a 10-year
report on the ARF budget. Yearbook
expenses for 2002 were quite high but will decrease sharply for 2003. Conference expenses will rise next year. As of 12/06/02, we had a balance of $14,
266.00 and this year our balance looks to be about the same though we still have
unreported income and expenses for this year’s conference.
5. Committee Reports
a. Nominations and Elections Hager
The
number of people voting this year was 146.
New Board members for 2003 are Terry Bullock, Lessie
Cochran, and Jill Lewis. Joyce Fine will
serve as chair and Jill Lewis as vice-chair in 2003.
b. Membership Townsend
We have 128 paid-up
members as of this date. The number of
students in this total is twenty-seven.
c. Publications Moorman
Manuscripts
submitted totaled 26, of which 23 were published. This total included one keynote, 1 multi-personed panel, and 18 individual papers.
d. Yearbook Editorial Advisory Moorman
Gary demonstrated how
the Yearbook appears online. He gave a
special thank-you to all the students who helped in mounting the yearbook. All editions of the Yearbook are now
available in PDF format and can be downloaded with the push of one button. This should solve the problem of hard-copy
availability. Gary asked that when
papers are submitted for publication they be sent as straight Word documents
with no frills. If you’d like to make
hyperlinks or other fancy stuff, email or bracket what you’d like to do. We have need of an electronic style
sheet. The site will have directions for
citing on-line sources soon. Please
proofread both HTML and PDF versions of your papers. The site counter tracks how many and from
where searches of the site originate. If
you want to use ARF publications for retention, merit, tenure considerations, remember
that the more hits on the site, the better.
e. Conference Program Trathen/Schlagal
This year the
preliminary program for the Conference was posted online and Woody and Bob
suggest that we continue this practice.
f. Call to Forum M. Laine
for Walpow
Dave Bishop coordinated
this year’s Forum in Ray Walpow’s place. (Thanks, Dave.) Please email Ray with suggestions for next
year’s books at Ray.Wolpow@wwu.edu
g. Proposal Review Bullock
2003 Conference will be
titled “Reading Research: Has It Made a
Difference in Student Learning?
Proposals are due 17 March 2003.
h. Budget Townsend
for Dowhower
Our estimated Conference
expenses will be somewhat higher next year.
We had $14,000 in expenses and $17,000 in income leaving us with a
balance of $17,500 as of today.
i. Graduate
Student Mentoring Bullock
Terry
thanked scholarship donors and noted that one scholarship each year will be
named in honor of Reed Motley. Beginning
next year, Randy Bass and Lynn Yribarren will
co-chair this committee. The 2002
scholarship winners are: Deborah Earle,
Karen Spector, Roz Gann,
Bernadine Skowronski, Lisa Bauer, and Bahar Hartmann
(Reed Motley Scholarship winner).
j. Site Selection Ransom
ARF is booked at the
Sundial through 2003. Peggy and Suzanne
Lapp narrowed an original list of nine possible properties to five probables. Of these
five, only two could actually provide the space and amenities ARF
requires: The Sundial and The Colony.
(M/S/P) that ARF remain at the Sundial for the next three years.
k. Public Relations Cochran
The Shrimp Fest will be
tonight in Room P201. Cost is slightly
higher this year due to rising cost of shrimp.
l. Archives Jerrolds
No report
m. Bylaws Hager
No report
6. Old
Business M.
Laine
Missy recommends
mounting the ARF By-laws and Procedural Policies manual on the web site.
7. New Business
a. If we wish not to conflict with the dates for
NRC, we need to change the dates for our conference. (M/S/P) that we move the ARF Conference dates
from December 6-9, 2003 to December 10-13, 2003.
b. The Board requests that graduate students
attending the Conference convene on the first night of the Conference—right
after the Board meeting—to construct poster sessions on their research.
c. The 25th anniversary of the
organization will occur in 2004, and the conference theme—presented by Cindy
Hendricks—will be “A Silver Jubilee of Reading:
Legacies, Realities, and Predictions.”
d. The dates for the Conference will revert to a
Wednesday through Sunday format for 2004 through 2006.
e. Sharon Kossack
proposed that ARF institute a special interest group for international
education. (M/S/P) to create such a
group.
f. Brenda Townsend thanked Missy Laine for her
excellent service as ARF chair and presented her with a hat and vase.
Meeting adjourned at
6:20 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Alice Randlett,
Secretary