Public Address Division

1997 Business Meeting Minutes

NCA Public Address Division
Business Meeting Minutes

November 21, 1997
Chicago, Illinois

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Meeting called to order by Carole Blair at 8:34 AM

1. Distribution of ballots

2. 1996 minutes distributed and approved

3. Report from the Legislative Council

Financial state of the association is good; plans for an investment strategy have begun.

4. Report from Bill Eadie from the National Office

New Journal editors: Andrew King, Louisiana State Univ. is the new editor of QJS
Michael Beatty, Cleveland State University, is the new editor of CM
Jim Chesebro, Indiana State University, is the new editor of CSMC
Lawrence Hugenberg, Youngstown State University, is the new editor of SPEECH COMMUNICATION TEACHER.

1998 New York Convention: will be held in two hotels, the Marriot Marquis and the NY Hilton, the weekend before Thanksgiving.
1999--Chicago, the first weekend in November
2000--Seattle.

Publications: the new edition of the Matlon Index is available. The second edition of the CommSearch CD-ROM will be available in January, 1998. It will also be available for Macintosh.

Projects: NCA has been accepted into the American Council of Learned Societies.

National office: Legislative Council has voted to move the national office to downtown Washington, D.C.

5. Vice-Chair's report--Suzanne Daughton

Submissions were high in quality, if not numbers. 24 competitive papers and 17 programs were submitted to the PAD. 8 of the papers were debut papers. 20 panels were programmed for the convention.

Thanks to reviewers:

Jim Aune, Texas A & M
Vanessa Beasley, Texas A & M
Chuck Burgchardt, Colorado State
Val Endress, Hartford
Kathleen Farrell, Iowa
John Hammerback, NC State
Richard Jensen, UNLV
Mary Kahl, SUNY New Paltz
Andrew King, LSU
Ron Lee, Nebraska
John Lucaites, Indiana
Jay Mechling, UC Davis
John Murphy, Georgia
Shawn Parry-Giles, Monmouth
John Sloop, Vanderbilt
Kris Vonnegut, St. John's
Elizabeth Walker Mechling, Fullerton
Ken Zagacki, LSU
James Macomber, SIU

Thanks to Reviewers for Awards:

Andrienne Christiansen, Macalester
Carol Jablonski, South Florida
John T. Llewellyn, Wake Forest
Deborah Smith-Howell, Nebraska--Omaha

Thanks to SIU grad student assistants:
Dacia Charlesworth
Diana Tucker

6. Announcements:

Ron Lee announced a Conference on Public Address and Human Values at the Univ. Of Nebraska, April 23-25, 1998.

Marty Medhurst announced the theme of the presidential rhetoric conference at Texas A & M: Public Discourse in Cold War America, March 5-8, 1998.

Celeste Condit announced that she and Bonnie Dow are co-editors elect of WOMEN'S STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION and are accepting manuscripts.

7. Awards--Carolyn Calloway Thomas

Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award--Marty Medhurst, "Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency"

Suzanne Daughton announced other awards:

Robert Gunderson Award for Outstanding Debut Paper:
Rebecca M. Thompson, U. Mass--Amherst, "McCarthyism's Rhetorical Norms"

Recipient of the Contributed (Competitive) Paper Award:
Mark Allen Steiner, Indiana University, "Maladroitness in the Culture Wars"

8. Vice-Chair Elect's Report: Carole Blair standing in for Mary Kahl

Ideas for the NY convention?

Take advantage of public figures in NY (Kathleen Turner)

Focus on the Labor Movement (Marouf Hasian)

NY as a entry point for immigrants (Kurt Ritter)

9. Election Results:

Nichols Award Committee Representative
Kent Ono
Mari Tonn *

Representative to NCA Resolutions Committee
Jim Aune *
Adrienne Christiansen

Secretary
Terrence Morrow
John Sloop

Vice Chair-Elect
Bill Lewis
Sue Zaeske*

Nominating Committee
Vanessa Beasley*
Carrie Crenshaw
Leroy Dorsey*
Chuck Morris
Trevor Parry-Giles* Chair
John Pauley
Michael Salvador
Amy Slagell*
Alisse Portnoy Theodore
Susan Zickmund*

* Denotes winner

10. New Business:

Carole Blair moves to thank Carolyn Calloway Thomas, Suzanne Daughton, and Bonnie Dow for service as officers.

Question of what to do with PAD funds:

Carole Blair--increase award amounts
John Murphy--grad student travel
Celeste Condit--dissertation research support award
Carole Jablonski--offset expenses for guest speakers at conferences
Jim Darsey--keep money flexible and set up a committee to consider requests each year.

Motion from Celeste Condit--use money for dissertation support. Seconded by Lester Olson. Amended by Kathleen Turner, who suggests it be called the Carroll Arnold Award. Motion carries.

Motion to design web page for PAD. Carries. Bonnie Dow and John Sloop will constitute a committee to look into this. Potential items for posting: grants available, links to speech text sources, conference calls, job postings.

Discussion of poster sessions: Do we want to schedule any? Consensus is NO.

Motion to thank Carole for her service from David Henry. Carries.

11. Meeting Adjourned at 9:29 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Bonnie J. Dow, Secretary, Public Address Division

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