Annual Meeting @SSCA 2005, Baton Rouge , LA
Saturday April 2, 2005

The meeting was called to order by Debbie Phillips at 5:20 PM with 6 members in attendance: Debbie Phillips, Wendy Hajjar, Wesley Buerkle, Stephen King, David Silverman, and Houjing Tu.    Sitting Chair Richard Olsen could not attend. The minutes from last year were approved unanimously. Information from the Business meeting was conveyed regarding the defeat of the joint conference with Central States in 2009, and the discussion of the changes in publishing journals and newsletters. According to member and SSCA Executive Director Elect J. Emmett Winn, our membership is in good shape although exact numbers were not available.

Vice Chair Debbie Phillips presented the Planning Report. For the Baton Rouge conference, 22 papers and 5 abstracts were reviewed by at least 2  reviewers each. 5 panels were assembled according to rankings.

Discussion ensued over the workshop sessions in more popular times and what ideas we could generate for 2006 in Dallas. Some workshop ideas were advanced as well as a plan to reach out to other divisions for joint panel proposals.

The committee held elections for Secretary, Vice Chair Elect and Nominating Committee members. For the 2006 meeting, Wesley Buerkle will serve as division Secretary, David Silverman as Vice Chair Elect will plan the 2007 division conference in Louisville, KY, and Richard Olsen was elected in absentia to serve on the Nominating Committee.

Finally, top student and faculty paper awards were given to Haijing Tu of Auburn University and David Silverman of Xavier University, respectively. Photographs were taken of the presentation of awards.

The meeting adjourned at 6:15.  
For the committee, Wendy J. Hajjar, University of New Orleans, Vice Chair Elect.