International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)
1998 Business Meeting Minutes Annapolis Marriott Hotel
Agenda:
Minutes: Dr. Harry Whitaker opened the meeting by call the meeting to order and asked for approval of the minutes from the last meeting. The minutes of the last meeting were approved. He first called for the Secretary's report. In the Secretary's Report, Dr. Haines stated that membership total was 236, with 185 being active. Dr. Haines asked the membership to encourage their colleagues who have not renewed to please do so. Dr. Haines stated that in the past year, his office has sent out two mailings inviting people to submit papers to the society's journal. Dr. Haines encouraged everyone to ask their colleagues to submit papers for their journal, and he reminded the membership that they are the nucleus that makes this society work. Dr. Haines thanked Swets (Martha Chorney) for keeping the membership fee for regular members at $95.00 per year. Dr. Haines stated that the board has talked about several different things to increase membership, and advertise the society. Also, a directory of the members in the society, will be provided to all members. President Whitaker then called for the Treasurer's report. Dr. Sam Greenblatt gave the Treasurer's Report. Income was based on money that came in before Swets started taking in money for membership. Information regarding the income and expense for the society was passed out at the meeting. Net income for the society was $1629.52 (?), total assets were 7,926.69, with cash value of $12,082.83. A motion was brought to the membership that $5,000+ be put into an one-year CD, and $2,000 be put into a six month CD. Motion was approved. A motion was brought to the membership that the Treasurer investigate other forms of how to invest the money and report on this at the next meeting. Motion was approved. President Whitaker then called for a report on the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. Dr. Peter Koehler gave the Journal Report. He stated that the journal was starting a new section called "Technology in Neuroscience". Dr. Koehler stated that the 1997 year of the journal was quite successful in attracting 24 papers, with 6 papers left over from 1996, with a total of 30 papers for review. Out of these, 24 were published and the others were still being edited; a total of about 25% were rejected. In 1998, 12 papers have been received. The society has had an increase number of subscriptions, including libraries. Dr. Koehler closed his report by encouraging the members to submit their papers and asked each member to encourage their colleagues to submit papers for the journal. Mr. Russell Johnson gave the report on the Website. Mr. Johnson stated that the HISTNEUR-L listserv is an unmoderated list; the traffic on the list averages one posting a day. Mr. Johnson pleaded with the membership that only 1/4 of this society are subscribed, forming only about 1/3 of the 187 subscribers; half of the ISHN members have no reported email addresses. Mr. Johnson stated to the members that, the members could not depend on the listserv as the official notifications, and that notifications still need to be mailed. The Website is doing well, with new links added each day, reported Mr. Johnson. He also stated if anyone had any suggestions or comments to please submit them. A motion was brought forth to the membership regarding publication of an Italian article on David Ferrell. More information will be provide to the membership regarding this motion. President Whitaker reported on the Program Committee. The society has 41 submissions; 2 were rejected and 39 papers were on the program. The President thanked his assistants on the program committee for their help. Dr. Chris Smith added to the report of the president. The society is looking at a joint meeting with the European Club for the History of Neurology and the International Assocaition for the History of Psychiatry. The dates of the meeting would be September 14-18, 1999. It will start at Zurich, having two and half days there, and then transfer to Laussane for the last couple of days, where the History of Psychiatry group is based. The society is looking to attract a large number of people for this meeting. A motion was brought forth to the membership to organize the 1999 meeting in conjunction with the European Club for the History Neurology and International Association for the History of Psychiatry. Motion was approved. President Whitaker reported on nominations for President-elect (President for the 1999-2000 year). Dr. Samuel Greenblatt was nominated. This nomination was seconded and the membership was invited to give other nominations for this office. A nomination was made for Ed Fine for President-elect. The motion was made that the nominations to be closed. President Whitaker asked for each member to vote on either Samuel Greenblatt or Ed Fine. ***There was a brief break in the meeting while Dr. Duane Haines counted the ballots.******* President Whitaker reported that for the 1999-2000 year, Dr. Samuel Greenblatt will be President. Since Dr. Greenblatt was the Treasurer, the president opened the floor for nominations for Treasurer. Dr. George York was nominated for Treasurer; no other nominations were stated and a motion was made and seconded to close nominations. George York was elected Treasurer. Dr. York was a Member at Large and President Whitaker noted this vacated position needed to be filled. The President opened the floor for nominations for Member at Large. Ed Fine was nominated, as was Russell Johnson. The membership moved for the nominations to be closed. President Whitaker asked for each member to vote. ***There was a brief break in the meeting while Dr. Duane Haines counted the ballots.******* President Whitaker reported that there was a tie vote and there would be a mail ballot to go out to all members of the membership to decided. [Later Mr. Johnson indicated that he would yield to Dr. Fine. Dr. Ed Fine replaced Dr. York as Member at Large.] President Whitaker closed the meeting by thanking the membership for a great year. The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 p.m.. Minutes recorded and transcribed by Duane Haines [Return to 1998 ISHN 3rd Annual Meeting - Program]
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