SECRETARY‘S REPORT

1994 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BUSINESS MEETING   July 9, 1994
COURTYARD MARRIOTT HOTEL
SCOTTSDALE, AZ

Call to Order by President,
           Ronald Satz 1:37 P.M.

Reading of minutes suspended,
              approved as published

Treasurer's Report approved as read [copy available on written request to Secretary]

Report of Editor of Reciprocity; [copy of financial report avail able on written request to Secretary] discussion concerning appropriateness of sending ISUS News with Reciprocity, motion carried to NOT send ISUS News to nonmembers. ISUS News to be sent to members ONLY.

OLD BUSINESS

Back issues of Reciprocity; motion to authorize sending all excess and back issues to Executive Director's office in S.L.C. carried unanimously. Back issues of ISUS News also to be sent to Exec. Dir. Motion to restrict mailing of Reciprocity to members only; discussion; question failed to meet majority requirement, tabled
Peer Review process questioned due to insufficient submissions. No conclusion.

Counting of mail-in ballots; discussion, no motion, no change.

Brochure; discussion, no recommendations regarding changes.

NEW BUSINESS

Motion to request all appropriate ISUS materials be copied to disk. Carried Unanimously.Authorization to obtain software to convert MAC data to PC data and PC to MAC, carried unanimously.

Motion to authorize reprinting“Basic Properties of Matter”; 112 copies (12 to D. Larson); carried unanimously.

Motion of Thanks:
to Maurice Gilroy for "underground" publishing activities; carried unanimously.

Motion to publish compilation of back issues of Reciprocity; died.
Request for resolution: regarding
J. Edward Anderson's material on Personal Rapid Transit; no action other than note of tribute. question of publication policy related to D.B. Larson's “Beyond Space and Time”; discussion of metaphysics vs. ISUS by-laws; motion to amend by-laws failed.
other letters; no action.

INTERNAL BUSINESS

Motion to re-elect existing Board of Trustees; carried unanimously.

Motion of Thanks to Host of conference: Hoyt Stearns; carried unanimously.

Future Meetings and possible locations; discussion; final decision: Phil Porter will Host the 1995 ISUS Annual Conference in Denver, CO. meeting time to be announced later.

MEETING: BOARD of  TRUSTEES

Nominations sequentially to reelect present slate of Officers; each carried unanimously.

Motion to authorize Executive Director to hire assistance as required for bookkeeping; carried unanimously.

Proposal for transference of Writer's Assistance Fund monies to appropriate recipient with restrictions regarding publication deadline; carried unanimously.

PRESENT MEMBERS

Ronald Blackburn
Rainer Huck
D. Maurice Gilroy
Frank H. Meyer
Philip H. Porter
Ronald W. Satz
Robin Simms
Hoyt Stearns

and Non-Members

Brian Frazer
Emil Hahn
Michael Riley

Respectfully submitted,
Lawrence E. Denslow, Secretary.