Past President's Report

The Past-President performs a few specified roles as outlined below, and provides a corporate memory of events, past practice, procedures and so forth for the current President and Executive. It was a pleasure to serve as Past-President this year, working with a very strong Executive led by President Su Cleyle and Vice-President / President-Elect Donald Moses. I want to congratulate Su for her excellent work as President, and I wish Donald all the best as he begins his presidential year.   

 

 

I chaired the Nominations Committee consisting of Su Cleyle, Nadine Goguen and Donald Moses. A call for nominations for the positions of Vice President/President Elect, Vice President New Brunswick and Vice President Membership was made through the Bulletin and the listserv. We received nominations for all three positions and the new Executive members will be announced at the OGM in June.

 

 

A call for nominations for the Merit Award was advertised on the listserv and in the Bulletin. The Merit Award Committee met in the Spring to review the nominations and filed a report at the Spring APLA Executive meeting. The winner will be announced at the Merit Award Banquet during the APLA conference in June.

 

The Standing Orders were reviewed and suggested revisions will be presented to the membership at the OGM for ratification. There are four SOs which should be changed based on decisions made or actions taken by the APLA Executive:  2.02 (student memberships); 5.05 (ballots); 7.02 (Membership Directory); and 8.02 (Bulletin format).   

 

 

The APLA Procedures Manual was substantially reformatted and revised in 2007 by Past-President Jennifer Richard. I will do slight revisions after the OGM, to reflect changes to the Standing Orders which are mentioned in the Procedures Manual, and to add the names of award and grant winners.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Donna Bourne-Tyson