 |
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences,
des Arts et des Métiers, 3d ed.,
Genève: J. L. Pellet, 1778-1779.
Plate I, "Fonderie en Caractères."
Courtesy Princeton University Library |
NEASECS Presidency for 2012
Arnd Bohm, who is currently the First Vice President of NEASECS, has reluctantly decided that, for reasons of health, he cannot undertake the presidency of our organization next year, as he would normally do under the constitution. I know all members of the Society are grateful to Arnd for his service to NEASECS and cheered by the news that he is feeling better.
Our Constitution, under Article V, Section 2, authorizes the Executive Board to “nominate a successor to any officer who resigns or is disqualified from serving.” Under this provision, the Executive Board has decided to ask Frans De Bruyn, the current president of the Society, to continue to serve through 2012, and he has agreed to do so. The Board is confident that all members of NEASECS will give Frans our grateful support.
Changes to NEASECS Web Site
Members will notice some significant changes in the NEASECS website.
The first change is that the board and treasurer have agreed to begin using PayPal to accept membership payments. You do not need to have a PayPal account to use it; you can use a credit card. If you click the "Join" button on the website, you'll see the PayPal button. Once you've gone through that system, it will send you back to the NEASECS website, where we ask for a bit more information than PayPal allows us to gather. Those who prefer may still send checks to Nancy Johnson, the Secretary-Treasurer. Information for doing so is still on the “Join” page of the website.
We have also changed the form of presentation of the newsletter. Instead of one very long webpage, we have broken it into its parts and given it its own menu along the left-hand side of the page. Among other things, this will allow for a more frequent updating of such elements as Member News and calls for papers. The newsletter remains available in PDF form, and current members may, if they request, receive the Newsletter by postal mail.
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please contact either John O'Neill (Newsletter Editor) or Melissa Bissonette (Webmaster).
Gift to NEASECS
The Executive Board of NEASECS gratefully acknowledges a financial gift to the Society from Maureen E. Mulvihill (Princeton Research Forum, NJ), a member of long standing.
Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
These proposed amendments are designed not to change anything of substance that we actually do but to bring the Constitution into line with current practices and to eliminate areas where it is inconsistent. In accordance with the Constitution’s provisions for amendment, they will be brought to the Executive Committee and then to the Business Meeting in Hamilton, Ontario in October for approval. (They were published in the 2010 Newsletter but did not come before these meetings last year.) view the proposed amendments
Publication Announcement
The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship announces its publication of Ian Watt's The Literal Imagination: Selected Essays, ed. Bruce Thompson (ISBN 0-930664-25-6). The book is on sale at only $15 a copy (pbk), and orders (with checks) should be sent to SPOSS at 4139 El Camino Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306. More details are available at www.sposs.org.
SPOSS is a nonprofit scholarly publishing organization, most of whose trustees are Stanford professors, publishing books that are specialized in focus but of excellent scholarly quality.
The Society began its fiscal year 2010-2011 on September 1, 2010. Many members have paid 2010-11 dues with their registration for the 2010 Annual Meeting. If you have not already paid 2010-2011 dues, please use the PayPal button on the “Join” page of the NEASECS web site or send a check for $15 (all dues in U.S. funds, please) to Nancy E. Johnson, NEASECS Secretary-Treasurer, SUNY New Paltz, 75 S. Manheim Blvd., New Paltz, NY 12561.
|
