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| Volume 46, Number 3, Winter 1998-99 |
NASW has a new committee to help chart the direction of the professional workshops that precede the AAAS annual meeting. The committee will consider workshop topics, budgeting and workshop fees; and, in general, how to continue improving the quality of the sessions. Committee members are Deborah Blum (chair), Ira Flatow, Merry Bruns, Carol Cruzan Morton, David Salisbury, Earle Holland, Beryl Lieff Benderly, Carol Ezzell, and Robin Marantz Henig. Paul Lowenberg will organize the Year 2000 workshops in Washington, DC, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, February 16 and Thursday, February 17.
NASW members are encouraged to submit workshop topic ideas to Paul Lowenberg (e-mail pdlowen@aol.com), and general comments to Deborah Blum (e-mail dblum@facstaff.wisc.edu).
Paul would like to thank to all of those who had a hand in making the 1999 NASW workshops in Anaheim so successful, with an added note of appreciation to Carol Cruzan Morton, who, once again, did yeoman (yeoperson?) work to organize the technical equipment requests and also contributed good suggestions for sessions. Her contributions as a co-organizer have been invaluable. Lori Oliwenstein was the southern California contact person and go-between with the Marriott Hotel, the Discovery Science Center, and NASW. Eric Mankin, head of the news service at the University of Southern California, was the liaison with the USC School of Cinema for the Wednesday session at the Discovery Science Center. Diane McGurgan processed all the forms, kept all the books, took all the last-minute phone calls, paid all the bills, and served as a sympathetic confidante to the whining organizer.
(Contributed by Deborah Blum and Paul Lowenberg.)