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Presidents Message:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2022
The Backwards Way to Become a Parliamentarian!
President’s Letter
1
AIP Officers
3
Calendar of Events
3
Deadline Dates – Communicator
3
Annual Session 2022 Recap
4
Preparing for the CPP Oral Exam
6
New CPs
7
Parliamentarians 2.0 Becomes Newest AIP Chapter
8
Welcome New Members of AIP
9
Amazon Smile Spotlight
9
I am often asked “How did you become a parliamentarian?’ For those of you who know me, you know that, of course, I did it backwards. I acquired most of my parliamentary knowledge before I was ever aware of NAP or AIP. I began my parliamentary journey in high school with two years of study for the FFA (then Future Farmers of America) version of a parliamentary procedure contest. It was really more of a “could you stump the presiding officer?” contest. My chapter was never able to win the state championship while I was eligible, but many members of my team went on to win the contest the year after I graduated. I used that parliamentary procedure knowledge as a presiding officer for our State FFA Convention, and also as a delegate to the National FFA Convention. After that, I cannot recall touching it, using it, or thinking about it… for 30 years! My daughter competed her freshman year in high school in the Agricultural Marketing Plan contest. When we received the results from that contest, I thought it was so arbitrary and opinion based that I suggested that she find another contest in which to compete. She came home the very next day and said she wanted
to do livestock judging! In my opinion, this contest is even more subjective (or at least I can’t see it). IN ANY CASE, I was going to be no help whatsoever with a livestock judging team. In strolling through all of the plaques on the wall from my old high school, she found a plaque from 1980 and said “Dad, that’s about your time, did you ever compete in this?” As she pointed to the state winning Parliamentary Procedure Contest. I told her yes and asked the advisor to send me the rules for this contest. I read the rules of this new contest and it was completely different than the one I remembered. They even required a book called Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised which was actually written by someone name Robert. This was much different than the hand-medown books which I had studied from back in the day, which were basically the knock-off equivalent of Robert’s In Brief. Fortunately, even the knock-off book had a few things right. The SDC’s for the Subsidiary and Privileged motions were the same, (which made the acronyms my ag teacher, Mr. Tim Vensel, had, shall we say, ingrained in my brain, still viable). They were so well ingrained that 30 years later, I could still recite the Subsidiary motions and all their SDC’s from memory. I still use that acronym in training teams today. It was difficult at first to attract students to this pursuit. In fact, the first year, we ordered somewhere in Continued on following page
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