Meeting Minutes
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Holiday Inn North, Arden
Hills
Present: Tom Kuster
(President), Jill Lofald (President Elect), Gregg Sawyer (Past President), Larry
Schnoor (Treasurer), Cynthia Carver (Historian), Dan
Cronn-Mills (Newsletter Editor), Karen P. Wilson(Secretary)
Meeting was called to order
at 5:40 p.m. Minutes from May 15, 2004 were approved.
Tom began by asking the
committee to look over the agenda for the BOG meeting. Reports will take place
at that meeting. On the BOG agenda the NE position is open, not NW.
Historian's Report: Cynthia
is planning a sabbatical application and is interested in researching
creativity as well as working on history of CTAM. She requests a letter by Oct.
15 from Jill Lofald in support of this sabbatical proposal. Consensus was to
support and Jill will contact Cynthia about the content of this letter.
Treasurer's Report: Larry
reported that there is nothing surprising in the Treasurer's report. Good
overall financial condition.
Newsletter Editor's Report:
Dan will no longer do the newsletter as he moves to the CTAM President Elect
position. Dan will continue doing the website.
Open Positions: Tom reminded
the committee that a representative from CTAM is needed for the One Act
Advisory Committee to MSHSL. When Gregg arrives we will continue this
discussion. Discussion followed about the Constitution and the procedure for
finding a Rep Assembly position. Class A rep is needed and the BOG is permitted
to nominate someone.
Speech/Debate rep needs to
be discussed.
Last year Don Rice
represented CTAM at Central States.
Thanks to META, St. Olaf, Concordia, Don Rice,
Discussion followed about
sending letters to the Administration of schools where the Outstanding
Individuals work (the Secretary of CTAM usually takes care of these). Jill and
Karen will follow up.
Clarification
of the "Outstanding Individual" award. How do we determine who
gets awards? CTAM used to have outstanding individual awards in certain fields
and this was changed to the present system of more general Outstanding
Individual Awards. A nomination from someone in CTAM begins the process. Do we
give awards a second time to the same person? Are these awards meant for
persons in the fields of communication and theater or are they intended for
members of CTAM? Is it time to recognize dedicated service within the
organization? We need to get these nominations done earlier, with more formal
letters of support and a rationale for why these people are nominated. A
philosophy statement should be reinstated.
Perhaps a nomination form on
the website would be useful. An awards committee from the BOG would be an
effective way to proceed. We need to check the constitution to see if it is
necessary to reinstate a publications committee, a licensing committee and a
nominating committee.
Discussion followed.
Is it time to re-vision the
responsibility of the BOG members? A BOG member could be a publicity person who
could contact the local newspapers, etc.
Gregg brought descriptions
of nominees for the General Business meeting elections.
Larry raised two MSHSL
issues: 1) some of these people eat at the noon luncheon and do not pay and 2)
this summer in Mpls the high school association that
selects the debate topic will be meeting and they had asked the MSHSL for
support. Can CTAM offer some support toward this meeting? Follow up with Todd Hering. Discussion followed.
Gregg reported that the
advisory position for one acts is taken care of.
Packet stuffing began. Meeting
was adjourned at 6:25 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Karen P. Wilson, CTAM
Secretary