Hi Denise,

Yes, I can drive to Philly.  Actually, I'm planning to take the train early Friday morning and my husband will drive down and join me on Saturday.  We will go home on Monday night because I have to teach a class on Tuesday afternoon.  Some of my colleagues think it's strange that I'm staying over and not taking the train in each day but there is so much that goes on from breakfast through the evening--I really like the time to connect with everyone.

The accounting program position keeps you so busy!  Weren't you also recruiting the year we went to KC--I think you had just been to AAA and met some of my TCNJ colleagues there.

My mother, who was with me in Seattle last year, wanted to go to Puerto Rico with me next year because the hotel is a Ritz Carlton (I think).  Then she heard recently that PR just raised its sales tax to 10.5% and she called to tell me and said "why go there"?  I had to remind her this is business and not (as you put it) a boondoggle.  

Good luck with recruiting.  Talk to you soon.

Nancy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Denise Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:17:32 PM
Subject: Re: Hotel room available for conference

Thanks, Nancy. I'm fine. Wish I could come, especially since my daughter
lives 45 minutes away in Wilmington, DE. We had 2 late-term accounting
faculty resignations. I'm hoping to get approval to go to AAA to recruit
replacements, and AAA overlaps ALSB by all but a couple of days this
year. (I'm the accounting program director.) We requested positions back
in late April, but there has been a change in upper administration since
then, and no word yet on whether we'll be able to replace them this
year. I took a leap of faith, booked rooms at AAA and cancelled ALSB. 

Will you be able to drive to this conference? When ALSB was in KC a few
years ago, it was so nice to just drive and have my car available for
short trips. Tell everyone I say "hi" and that I'm hoping to be in
Puerto Rico if I can convince my chair that it is not a "foreign"
boondoggle destination! 

Best wishes, 

Denise 

On 07/15/2015 07:36 AM, Nancy Lasher wrote: 

> I'll miss seeing you, Denise. I hope that all is well.
> 
> Nancy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Denise Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]: Thursday, July 9, 2015 1:31:35 PM
> Subject: Hotel room available for conference
> 
> I, too, have had to cancel my hotel reservation for ALSB in
> Philadelphia. I had a king room at the Sheraton for August 5 check-in
> and August 9 check-out. That is not the full length of the conference,
> but perhaps someone would like to take advantage of the conference rate
> at the conference hotel for those nights. As Carol Miller says, the rate
> ends tomorrow. 
> 
> Hope everyone has a great conference! Hope to see you next year! 
> 
> Denise Smith 
> 
> Professor of Business Law, Eastern Illinois University 
> 
> On 07/07/2015 07:40 PM, Miller, Carol J wrote:
> 
>> I will not be able to attend the ALSB conference in Philadelphia this year, and I have just cancelled my room at the Sheraton -- in case someone is still wanting a room there. I believe the conference rate is available through Friday. Carol Miller