2005 RCML Annual General Meeting Minutes
February 25, 2005

President Sheryl Maxwell called the meeting to order at 12:10 p.m. The meeting was held in the Silver City Room of the Little Rock Wyndham River Front Hotel.  President Maxwell introduced her board: President-Elect Bea Babbitt, Vice President for Conferences David Davison, Vice President for Publications Alan Zollman, Treasurer Winifred Mallam, Secretary Sue Brown, Newsletter Editor Dan Brahier and Membership Coordinator Roland Pourdavood.

Item 1:  Approval of Minutes for Last Year’s Meeting

The minutes of the annual meetings are published in Intersection Points in the April issue, they are included on the RCML website and they are posted at the Annual Conference in the registration area. Pat Lamphere Jordan called for approval of the minutes.  David Davison seconded the motion.  The minutes were approved.

Item 2:  Treasurer’s Report

Winifred Mallam presented the Profit and Loss report for 2004. RCML had approximately $3,000 in income generated by membership dues and $8,000 in income generated by program registration.  Expenses incurred during the calendar year 2004 for the 2004 conferences, Focus, office supplies, postage, printing, and web master honorarium totaled approximately $14,000.  When income generated by interest and back service charges were calculated, the net result was a loss of approximately $1,500 for the period January through December 2004.  The total assets of RCML in both operating and conference accounts are approximately $31,000. Pat Lamphere Jordan moved that the treasurer’s report be accepted and Dixie Metheny seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

Item 3: Membership

Roland Pourdavood reported:  RCML has 215 active members, 45 new members, and 49 expired memberships.

Item 2:  VP for Publications Report

Alan Zollman thanked Dan Brahier for his work as Newsletter Editor. He announced that Dan who began as editor in 1998 is retiring as Newsletter Editor.  Alan announced that members should soon receive the Spring 2005 Focus. He thanked Sheryl Maxwell, Bill Speer, Dan Brahier, and Ginny Usnick for their help with the journal.  Focus is now an international journal.

Alan thanked Web Site Editor Ryan Speer.  Ryan does a wonderful job of updating the website, posting items on the site almost immediately.

President’s Report

Sheryl presented Dan Brahier with a plaque in recognition for his outstanding accomplishments as RCML Newsletter Editor.  She also announced that Michael Naylor is the new Newsletter Editor. 

Sheryl presented Sue Brown and Alan Zollman with plaques recognizing their contributions to RCML as Secretary and Vice President for Publications.  She also presented plaques to the 2005 Conference Committee Chairs:  Linda Griffith, Carolyn Pinchback, and Belinda Griffith.

Sheryl announced that if you are on the program, you are expected to attend the conference and that for future conferences there will be an early and late registration fee.  The early fee is to encourage members to register early so that the conference committee will have a better feel for the number of people attending the conference.   This will assist the committee in conference planning.

Vice President for Conferences Report

David Davison announced that there were no paper awards this year.  The papers submitted did not meet the criteria for acceptance.  Next year the due date for paper submissions is January 1.  David encouraged everyone to submit his or her articles to Jean Schmittau, Focus editor.   David thanked outgoing Conference Committee members Carolyn Pinchback and Sandy Johnson.  He presented each of these individuals with a certificate of appreciation.

David announced that the 2006 RCML Conference will be in Las Vegas.  The conference chair is Bill Speer.  Co-chairs are Virginia Usnick, Jeff Shih, and Marilyn Ford.  The conference will be February 23-25.  It will probably be located at the International Gaming Institute with the AmeriSuites as the conference hotel.  Ginny Usnick distributed the call for papers. 

New Business

Bea Babbitt assumed the Presidency.  She presented Sheryl Maxwell with a plaque recognizing her outstanding contributions to RCML as president.

Bea thanked the 2005 Conference organizers: Linda Griffith, Carolyn Pinchback, and Belinda Griffith.

She introduced the new board members: 

Bea asked all first time attendees to stand and welcomed them to RCML.   She announced that the special session on quilts would begin at 5:00 p.m. and reminded members to attend the Saturday morning breakfast at 7:00 a.m.  Constance Kamii will speak at 7:30 a.m.

There was no further new business and President Bea Babbitt closed the meeting at 1:20 p.m.

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