2007 PAD Convention Panels

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Chair's Report

Public Address Division, Chair’s Report

National Communication Association

Lisa Shawn Hogan, Penn State University

Saturday, November 17, 2007

12:30-1:45 pm

Chicago Hilton, Continental Ballroom B

I.  Appreciation:

A. I would like to personally thank all of the members of the Public Address Executive Committee for making this a successful convention.

B.  Lester Olson deserves special recognition for carefully planning our 31 panels. His dedication and hard work should be applauded.

C. I would also like to thank all members of the executive committee (past and present) and others who helped me navigate through the various chair responsibilities, including Susan Shultz Huxman, Amy Slagell, Kirt Wilson, Trevor-Parry-Giles, and Shawn Parry-Giles.

D. Special thanks should be extended to the nominating committee and its chair, Kari Anderson, for preparing our ballot for today.

E. We all wish Charles Morris success (and patience!) as he plans the 2008 convention.

F.  Finally, I would like to thank each of you who chaired a panel, reviewed papers, responded to panels, or submitted your work to our division. We acknowledge and appreciate your hard work.

II.  Activity:

A.  Membership: As of January 2007, we have 698 members in the Public Address Division.  In 2006 we had 711 members.

B.  Panels:  We had 31 panels this year which was the same number as 2006.

C.  The Carroll Arnold Lecture was presented on November 15th by Michael J. Hyde of Wake Forest University. The title of the lecture was “Perfection, Postmodern Culture and Biotechnology Debate.”

D.  2008 Public Address Conference On its twentieth anniversary, the Public Address Conference will return to the institution that first hosted it, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from September 25-27, 2008. The conference theme is “Representing the Republic” and will include a keynote address by Professor John M. Murphy. In addition, the conference will honor Professor Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, of the University of Minnesota. For further information, please contact Professor Susan Zaeske.

III.  Budget:

 

We operate on a modest budget. Our budget for this fiscal year (July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008) is $580. This budget allows us to offer small cash prizes along with a plaque for our two paper awards (Gunderson and Wrage-Baskerville) as well as for the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award.  The budget also covers the cost of the Public Address Web site.

III. Looking to the future:

 

A.  On behalf of the executive committee, I encourage all of you to submit papers and panels to the 2008 convention in San Diego, California on November 20th-23rd, 2008.

B.  I also encourage you to visit the PAD Web site at: http://www.ncapublicaddress.org/

Thank you for your membership and support of the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association.  We are one of the oldest and largest divisions in NCA and we want to keep it that way.

Vice-Chair's Report (.pdf)

Past Chair's Report (.pdf)

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