April 2016
“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-5) Query 6
“April is Parliamentary Month” In celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13, 1743.
PRESIDENT’S LETTER by Kay Allison Crews, CP
Table of Contents
Dear friends,
President’s Letter
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Calendar of Events
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AIP Officers
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Deadline Dates - Communicator
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Editor’s Exchange
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AIP Bookstore
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Welcome New Members
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New Credentials / Contributors
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The Meeting as an Operation
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Spotlight on Board Member
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West Coast Practicum Review
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Registration Form
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AIP Education Foundation
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Let’s Do The Twist
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Member Services Committee Activites
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Amazon Smile
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What a pleasure to travel to Ontario, California, for the concluding banquet of the West Coast Practicum and the Executive Committee and Board of Director’s Meetings the next morning! Seeing old friends and colleagues is always fun, and working for the advancement of our profession is a privilege. The meeting of your Board of Directors was successful in many ways. The following actions were approved: Mary Remson, Jeanette Williams, and Lucy Anderson were appointed to a committee to consider sites for the 2017 Annual Session. If you are interested in hosting, or have some assistance to offer them, please let them know. Colette Collier Trohan and her Bylaws and Standing Orders Committee are hard at work reviewing our governing documents. Members are encouraged to offer their suggestions for possible changes to our governing documents by March 31. Here is the language from the Standing Orders: Standing Committee Duties: Bylaws and Standing Orders Committee. All proposals shall be submitted by March 31 and include the specific wording, rationale, financial implication, and signature of the maker. Your suggestions may be sent to Bylaws@ aipparl.org.  Adam Hathaway is thinking about elevator speeches to promote parliamentary procedure in general, and AIP in particular. Send him your comments and suggested elevator speech at Communications@aipparl.org. (For those of you who don’t know the current lingo, an elevator speech is a 30-second pitch given in response to a basic question: April 2016
What is it you do? What is a parliamentarian? What is AIP? Etc. The idea is it should last about as long as a typical elevator ride.) Kay Crews updated the Board on the work of the Printed Materials Fulfillment Subcommittee. See more about that in a separate column. Carol Davis reported that the Parliamentary Journal has a new printer, and work is going well with the publication of the hard copies of the PJ. The new printer saves AIP about $250/ issue. Alison Wallis is hard at work preparing for the East Coast Practicum (more on this elsewhere in this issue!) and the Annual Session. Special fun is waiting for you in Albuquerque! Craig Henry has accepted the appointment to serve as Coordinator for the Business Development Institute. His plans are wonderful, and your President is looking forward to attending! Following the Board of Directors meeting, Ann Guiberson, Chairman of the Special Committee on Strategic Planning, led the Board members through a SWOT (Strengths/ Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats) analysis of AIP. The session was productive and informative. Work is progressing for AIP on many fronts. This is an exciting time to be a part of our profession. I look forward to seeing you at the East Coast Practicum, or at the Annual Session! Kay
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