I agree wholeheartedly!  It was a terrific conference!!!  Thanks to
everyone.  Linnea


At 09:47 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Back from Baltimore and I wanted to comment on what a wonderful
>conference it was this year. Congratulations to all who put it on --
>particularly Art Marinelli, Dan Herron, Mary Keifer and also thanks to
>Ohio U for its very generous support. Thanks to Chuck Snow for arranging
>the excellent Wednesday events at Annapolis. As indication of just how
>successful the conference was -- Dan Herron spent a good deal of the
>time in a state of high agitation because "nothing was going wrong" and
>that made him very uneasy!
>
>Perhaps  more important than nothing going wrong, was the sense of real
>energy and enthusiasm both at the meeting and coming out of the meeting.
>There were new faces (belonging to people with real tenure track
>positions), good papers,fine workshops/symposia, strong attendance and
>good discussion at paper sessions, excellent panels, great speakers at
>sections and increased membership and attendance at sections, etc etc.
> From my perspective as out-going president, I was really buoyed by the
>wisdom, support, and willingness to contribute of the many regional
>delegates to the House of Delegates, by the obvious hard work of the
>Executive Committee particularly with strategic planning (thanks Jim and
>Ginny), and by the very strong program proposed by the Standing
>Committee on Education (thankyou Tom Dunfee for all your work in
>establishing this committee over the past work and putting it on a
>strong footing and Terry Dworkin for so willingly taking over as chair).
>Pat Pattison reported results that were highly supportive of the
>direction the ALSB is taking from her membership survey and is embarking
>on a further most important study on those who have not renewed
>membership (thanks Pat for all your contributions both before and at the
>conference). We have a fine new member of the Executive Committee, Nancy
>Kubasek, who has already given so much to the ALSB but shows every
>indication of having super-human energy reserves from which she always
>is willing to draw for our organization. The Journals continue to do
>well thanks to the hard work of their editorial boards and staff. The
>Publishers again supported the conference willingly and effectively and
>continue to be prepared to meet with us to advise and work with us
>towards improving our profile amongst business law faculty in general
>(thanks Linda, Rob, Andy et al for the very effective technology
>workshop).
>
>Congratulations to all the award winners -- there were a lot of new
>faces and a real diversity in schools. Congratulations to Marsha Haas on
>her retirement and her Kay Duffy award -- and her willingness to
>continue working for the ALSB. Congratulations to Peter Shedd on the end
>of his term on the Executive Committee -- Peter you were an outstanding
>and creative worker and you will be really missed (although, I trust,
>you will continue to be exploited!).
>
>And to Frank Cross, the newly elected President -- best wishes. I have
>no doubt you will do a fine job. This is a great organization and its
>members make leadership easy -- we have a seemingly endless supply of
>people willing to take on tasks and work effectively till their
>completion.
>
>And to all members and particularly those who were so kind to me at the
>conference -- thanks for making my year so enjoyable and rewarding. Good
>luck to you all over the coming year, and let's all meet in Albuquerque
>August 2001.
>
>Sally