MINUTES
USITT-SOUTHWEST
BOARD MEETING
MARCH 18, 2004
USITT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
LONG BEACH, CA
1.
The
annual meeting was called to order by chair, Richard Denning.
2.
Minutes
of the January 04 board meeting were approved by
acclamation
3.
Richard
reported on the January 04 Symposium.
4.
Elizabeth
Lewandowski delivered the Treasurer’s Report.
Income from the January 04 Symposium was $5916, with expenses of
$5564.89. The account balance is
$7286.32. A detailed report was
distributed to those attending.
5.
Tom
Grabowski presented the Membership Report.
There are 51 members, 27 student members, 1 organizational member, 3
contributing members, and 1 mail-only member.
6.
It
was decided that the Winter 05 Symposium would be held on Martin Luther King
weekend, hosted by Doug Gilpin at Henderson State. Doug described the facilities: 162 seat thrust, tension wire
grid, proscenium, new costume shop, old shop with new mechanical room, design
lab, dance studio, plus the Ouachita Baptist 200 seat proscenium theatre
nearby. Elizabeth offered to help Doug,
Claudia, and William with the Symposium.
One of the possible topics for the Symposium is “Properties.” There was discussion of mounting Design Southwest
at the Symposium. Doug suggested
getting the ACTF foam boards from Fayetteville. Don Childs volunteered to assist.
7.
Old
Business. The group was reminded of
Forrest Newlin’s induction as a Fellow of USITT. Doug Gilpin was added to the Glenn Martin, Jr. Service Award list
for 2000.
8.
New
Business. Richard reported from the Section
Officers’ Meeting about ways to strengthen ties between Regional Sections and
National: a. Try to get room on the
National USITT website for Regional Sections.
b. Address the confusion about memberships in the National and Regional
Sections. There should be consistency
among the Regional Sections regarding categories of membership and dues
amounts. Discussion followed concerning
the impact on the Region, especially the loss of autonomy versus the gain of communication
with National and other Regions. Who
would collect the dues? What would membership dates be? How much staff time at National would be
needed? Our Sustaining Membership is
higher than some others, so would National want to get a part? (Our
contributors want their dollars to stay in the Southwest Region.) Richard replied that sharing a database with
other Regions and National is a priority, and also that we would want to
control money contributed to the Region.
He stated that National would collect dues but that Contributing and Sustaining
Memberships would remain in the Region.
It would be easier to join both National and Regional at the same time.
Motion made by Daryl Wedwick: Our dues should stay in the Region, but we
should join the National and Region at the same time. Motion passed.
Motion made by Elizabeth Lewendowski: We are not supportive of National collecting
our dues, but Richard should discuss this problem with the other section
chairs. Motion passed.
Discussion followed concerning the geographical
restrictions on membership. Amy Jackson
stated that there also should be more interaction and networking between
Contributing businesses and the membership to justify expenses.
Richard reminded the group the list of current
officers and incoming officers is on the website. Barbara Cox will be the new recording secretary. Tom reminded the group that memberships will
be due in the Fall for the January-December term. He will send emails.
Submitted 11/3/04,
Barbara Alkofer, Recording Secretary