Sally,

I must apologize for not introducing myself at the conference.  I teach BL
at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs; and this was my first
conference.  Over the past several months, I emailed and called Dan and
several ALSB members on a variety of topics and everyone always
added..."Come to Baltimore."  I'm very glad I did.

I agree w/ all of your comments, especially the sense of energy and
enthusiasm.  This is important.  I'm one of the civilian profs in the Law
Department here (we have a Legal Studies major); but we have about 15
members of our Dept. faculty who are active duty lawyers (JAGs) who teach
here for only 2-4 years.  They are the best of the best, but they lack the
sense of community among other "lawyers" teaching "undergraduate" students.
ALSB has that sense of community ("home," I think you said in one of your
comments).  I hope to bring some of them to next year's conference, to get
this feeling, and the terrific presentations on teaching, even if they are
not interested in business law as a subject matter.  There just isn't
another organization (ASA, AALS, AAHE, etc) that has that.

Thank you; it was a great time
John
p.s. As an Annapolis grad, it was also fun to "return home."

-----Original Message-----
From: SALLY GUNZ [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:48 AM
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Subject: Baltimore


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