Minutes of the Board Meeting
Friday April 14, 2000
University of Arizona

The meeting came to order about 6:15 P.M. Present were Owen Davis, Gordon Johnson, Betsy Cooper, Karen Conzelman, Steve Williams, Kathy Lauckner, Chuck Douglas, Aregai Tecle, Robert Reavis, Sandra Wardwell.

It was noted that arrangements for rooms for all the meetings have been made. Conservation has been moved from Room 130 to Room 101 in Harvill.

One more Judge needs to be found for the Junior Academy. It was suggested that Dr. Smolenyak's graduate students might be willing to act as a judge for the Junior Academy.

Tony Brazel, the new editor for the ANAS Journal, has not had time to meet with the associate editors, but he hopes to shortly. Owen requested that the first Board meeting in August be held at Glendale or Tempe so that the Board could meet jointly with the Editor and discuss some issues.

Karen presented the Treasurer's Report

The motion was made and seconded to accept the Treasurer's Report. The motion passed.

Karen raised the issue of an audit. In her tenure as Treasurer there has been no audit. Kathy Lauckner mentioned that her husband is an accountant. She will ask him if he would be able to undertake the project. Gordon Johnson also mentioned that his daughter is a CPA. He would be willing to ask her as a backup. Owen suggested that we wait to hear from Kathy's husband and go from there.

Robert Reavis announced that he has eight text books donated by publishers to give away. Owen suggested that it might be nice to give them as gifts to the Junior Academy winners and that they might be given to Lynette Hoff before the Junior Academy Awards Ceremony.

Robert also indicated that there may have been confusion about the best poster contest. None of the 8 individuals who will be making poster presentations indicated on their abstract that they wished to be considered for the best poster award.

Gordon mentioned that all the Grant-in-Aids awards have been sent out; none of the winners will be able to attend the Luncheon.

Karen asked if responsibility for library subscriptions and back issues will go to Tony Brazel as new editor. It was suggested that this was a question that should be addressed when the Board meets with the editor. There will need to be some delegation of responsibilities of duties not directly involved with printing the Journal. Robert Reavis has been asked to act as an advertising editor. Les Landrum has been handling the Floral issues of the Journal and the back issues. It is not known if he would take on the responsibility of Journal subscriptions.

Karen recommended that the Proceedings volume of the Journal be sent to libraries that have Journal subscriptions. There was general agreement.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:55.

Respectfully submitted,

Betsy Cooper
Recording Secretary