November 2014
PRESIDENT’S LETTER by Alison Wallis, CP-T, PRP
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security found. ––Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Table of Contents President’s Letter
1
Calendar of Events
2
AIP Officers
2
Teacher Certification Course
3
Catalyst Campaign
4
Editor’s Exchange
4
West Coast Practicum 2015
5
New Members
6
Say Hello
7
Contributions
7
Signing Off
7
Candid Snaps
8
Since its founding, the American Institute of Parliamentarians has been a flexible, creative organization. There are many areas of growth, reform, and change at AIP, all of which will make us better and stronger. An example of growth is in the expanding Printed Materials Collection. We are grateful to Ann Rempel’s leadership, to the authors, proofreaders, and formatters who bring these books to birth. In addition to major updates and entirely new material, AIP has, at the time of this writing, two publications that can be purchased in Kindle form (Fundamentals of Parliamentary Procedure and Manners and Protocol). Thanks to Larry Cisar for tackling the task of turning a work the size of Fundamentals into a Kindle version. More Kindle books are planned soon. Audiobooks are coming too, and the president has completed narration on one publication, with others planned to follow. AIP’s print-on-demand publications can be purchased from the website; digital and audio books can be purchased from Amazon. Remember to Smile for AIP on Amazon by going to to Smile.Amazon.com and selecting the American Institute of Parliamentarians as your charity. The most notable example of reform is in our move to a new management company. You will see a column from Terry Applegate of XMi in Nashville, Tennessee on page 7. To make the move to a new company, there is a huge amount of work from AIP directors and the staff of old and new management firms. Despite much effort, the transition may not be seamless. However, your board of directors believes this reform will provide more timely and accurate services to each member and to the public. This move will also provide significant monetary savings to AIP as an organization, thus ensuring our continued existence and adherence to good management practices.
November 2014
Another area of reform is to increase awareness of AIP. We continue to have fabulous practicums on the east and west coasts and an annual session with both meetings and workshops. Our advanced parliamentary credentials have the highest respect. Our value is high but these benefits are known only to a few. We must evangelize the benefits of membership and of our great programs and educational materials. Please think about participating in the President’s voluntary Catalyst Campaign, as explained on page 4. Greatly increased visibility is the most meaningful reform we can make. As always, while some personnel remain in the same position, others do not. New board members are Carl Silverman, Joe Theobald, Bob Peskin. Our new editor of the Parliamentary Journal is Carol Davis, with the Communicator’s editor being David C. Morgan. All board members, event coordinators, chairs of committees, and editors would love to hear from you. Another change in AIP is that the bylaws were amended at the Annual Session in Ohio to provide that officers could not serve a fifth consecutive term (as opposed to a third consecutive term). Subsequently, all officers were re-elected for another term, thus we are each serving a third consecutive year. All the officers are aware this is a very high honor that reflects confidence from the membership Bylaw amendments, elections, and other business from the Annual Session can be seen in the approved minutes, online in the AIP member area and included in next month’s newsletter. These and other instances of growth, reform, and change will allow AIP to have true security, secure in its respected position in parliamentary education and secure in the quality of service to you, the members.
AIP Communicator