CSCA - INTERPERSONAL AND SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION HELP WANTED The Interpersonal and Small Group Communication soon-to-be Interest Group will hold its first ever business meeting at the St. Paul conference next week (7:30-9:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 20). Under more normal circumstances, an Interest Group would have a previously elected chair, vice chair, secretary, and (perhaps) readers. Of course, Interpersonal and Small Group will have none of those things. As a consequence, the Interpersonal and Small Group Communication soon-to-be Interest Group needs several volunteers to put their names up for nomination. POSITION 1: INTEREST GROUP CHAIR AND 1997 ST. LOUIS PROGRAM PLANNER. At the request of the Executive Committee, I acted as the program planner for the St. Paul conference. Unfortunately, I do not feel as though I can do this again for next year. I am already going to be program planner for SCA '97 in Chicago and hosting the INPR (International Network on Personal Relationships) conference in Oxford, Ohio in the summer of '97. So we need an Interest Group Chair for the St. Paul to St. Louis time frame. There is a meeting for the St. Louis program planers on Sunday morning in St. Paul that the Interest Group chair or designee should attend. POSITION 2: INTEREST GROUP VICE CHAIR AND 1998 CHICAGO PROGRAM PLANNER. It makes sense to me to have a person in place who would become Interest Group chair at the St. Louis conference and who would be Interest Group program planner for the 1998 conference. POSITION 3: INTEREST GROUP SECRETARY. Someone should take the minutes of our initial meeting in St. Paul. POSITION 4: PAPER READERS FOR THE ST. LOUIS CONFERENCE. Three individuals should read all paper and panel submissions for the Interest Group. This might include the Vice Chair and 1998 program planner. POSITION 5: VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPING AND INTEREST GROUP CONSTITUTION. I think that once we pass our initial meeting that the Interest Group should formalize our procedures to an extent. Volunteers to work on this task (over time, not necessarily just in St. Paul) would be appreciated. Elections will probably be held for Positions 1, 2, and 3 at the St. Paul business meeting. Let me know if you can and want to serve in any of these capacities. Thanks very much for your time and bandwidth. P.S. I used the term Interest Group to refer to the group at the St. Paul conference because, technically speaking, the Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Interest Group will not exist until the Executive Committee s vote at the St. Paul conference.