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1 ANU Emeritus Faculty Notice of the 13th Annual General Meeting The 13th Annual General Meeting of the ANU Emeritus Faculty will be held on Wednesday 12 December 2012 at 5.00 pm in the Molony Room, 24 Balmain Crescent ANU People who cannot attend can vote by proxy. The proxy voting paper is attached. Page 5 The meeting will be followed by the ANUEF Christmas Party. 1. Welcome and Apologies Apologies have received from Roland Jahnke 2. Minutes of the 12th Annual General Meeting The Minutes are attached. Pages 2-4 MOTION: that the minutes be confirmed. 3. Annual Report The Annual Report is attached. Pages 6-15 MOTION: That the Report be received. 4. Treasurer’s Report The Treasurer’s Report and the audited financial statements for the year 1 December 2011 to 30 November 2012 will be tabled at the meeting and placed on the web site after the meeting. MOTION: that the report be received, the accounts be accepted and the membership fee for 2012 be set at $25. 5. Report of the Returning Officer Giles Pickford was appointed as Returning Officer for 2012. A call for nominations was sent to members on 10 November 2012. The Deadline for nominations is 1 December 2012 at 5.00 pm. The Returning Officer will report. MOTION: that the Returning Officer’s Report be received. 6. Appointment of Auditor MOTION: that Pauline Hore be re-appointed and thanked for her pro-bono services. 7. Other Business GP 17 November 2012 2 ANU Emeritus Faculty Minutes of the 12th Annual General Meeting ANU Emeritus Faculty Minutes of the 12th Annual General Meeting of the ANU Emeritus Faculty held on Wednesday 14 December 2011 at 5.00 pm in the Molony Room, Fellows Lane Cottage, ANU The meeting was followed by the ANUEF Christmas Party. PRESENT: John Molony (Chair), Don Anderson (Deputy Chair), Allan Barton (Auditor), Mary McCullagh, (Returning Officer), Peter Scardoni (Treasurer), Paul Coker, Nik Fominas, Gillian Evans, Diana Riddell, Maev O’Collins, Verna Rosling, Stjepan Marcelja, Fyfe Bygrave, Angela Giblin, Peter Stewart, Ian Mathews, Brian Lees, Chris Mackay, Ante Dabro, Jim Windeyer, John Armstrong, Alex Ritchie, Mike Rickard, Stewart Turner, Gerard Ward, Malcolm Whyte, James Grieve, Judy Lee, John Grant, Ian Rae, Di Langmore, Terry Birtles, Helmut Loofs-Wissowa, Sigrid Loofs, Adrian Gibbs, Pat Gibbs, Bob Clements, Ann Kumar, Ian Buckley, Tim Curtin, John Copland, James Fox, Karis Muller, Colleen Grafton-Green, Michael Grafton-Green, Giles Pickford (Secretary) 1. Welcome and Apologies The Chair welcomed the members present and the Secretary the announced the following apologies. Ken Taylor, Deryck Scarr, Peter Firth, Elizabeth Murphy, Neville Fletcher, Margaret Travers, John Sandeman, Mark Cranfield, Robert Briggs, Erich Weigold, Bryan Furnass, Judith Caton, Ann Moyal, Dick Johnson, Derek Wrigley, Catherine Gross, Peter McCullagh, Ros Hurst, Patrick Troy, Nicholas Tapp, Jack and Clare Golson, Janet and Russell Doust, Geoffrey Smith, Michael McKernan, Jan Anderson, Jenny Goldie, Stephen Boyden, Bob Douglas, Roland Jahnke, Chris Bryant, Peter Jones, Keith Crook, Anne Felton, Ian Anderson, Barry Ninham (Deputy Chair), Trish Bygrave, Shirley Pipitone, and Geoffrey Bartlett The Secretary then tabled proxy votes in favour of the Chair received from Deryck Scarr, Peter Jones and Dorothy Sales. 2. Minutes of the 11th Annual General Meeting The Minutes were considered. MOTION: that the minutes be confirmed: moved Nik Fominas/Mike Rickard CARRIED 3. Annual Report The Chair’s tabled his Annual Report on the year 2011. A copy is attached to these Minutes. He gave thanks to the following members for the work they had done on Faculty Projects: Giles Pickford (Secretary), Peter Scardoni (Treasurer), Allan Barton (Auditor), Ian Mathews (Editor of Emeritus), James Grieve (Obituaries), Peter Stewart (Oral History Project), Adrian Gibbs (e-Texts Project), Di Riddell (Membership), Verna Rosling (East Coast Project) Nik Fominas (Web Site Officer), Barry Ninham and Don Anderson (Deputy Chairs) MOTION: That the Annual Report be received: moved Allan Barton/James Fox CARRIED 4. Proposal to take the next step forward. Giles Pickford discussed an idea that the Committee has been looking at for a few meetings. The proposal is that we start to explain the ANUEF and its potential in a much better way to the ANU, 3 and also to the Tertiary Sector in Australia, New Zealand and beyond. He requested members to assist in making their lives and work more visible on the web site, by adding their CVs to the list of members, by publishing their papers in e-Texts and by writing stories for Emeritus. When this has been achieved Don Anderson and Giles Pickford will be able to present the ANUEF to the world at the 2012 Tertiary Education Management Conference in Adelaide, which is normally attended by 700 people from Australia and New Zealand. The Paper will also be presented to the ANU’s senior officers with a request that the ANU do a much better job of telling staff who are about to retire about the potential offered by the ANUEF. Most such staff never get to hear about the ANUEF because the Privacy Laws prevent the dissemination of information. These ideas were noted. 5. Treasurer’s Report The Treasurer’s Report and the audited financial statements for the year 1 December 2010 to 30 November 2011 were tabled at the meeting. MOTION: that the report be received, the accounts be accepted and the membership fee for 2012 be set at $25: moved Ann Kumar/Maev O’Collins CARRIED The Income and Expenditure statement and the Balance Sheet are attached to these Minutes. 6. Report of the Returning Officer The meeting noted that Mary McCullagh had been appointed as Returning Officer for 2011 after ten years of service from Dick Johnson for which we thanked him warmly. The Returning Officer tabled the following report. The following members had submitted valid nominations before the deadline: Angela Giblin Brian Lees Di Riddell Giles Pickford Ian Buckley James Fox John Molony Judith Caton Nik Fominas Peter Scardoni Shirley Pipitone Verna Rosling As there were 12 nominations for 12 vacancies all candidates were declared elected unopposed. MOTION: that the Returning Officer’s Report be received: moved Giles Pickford/Tim Curtin CARRIED 7. Appointment of Auditor Professor Alan Barton announced that he wished to retire as Auditor. The Chair thanked him profusely for his pro-bono services. Professor Barton has recommended Pauline Hore CPA, JP as his replacement. MOTION: That Pauline Hore CPA, JP be appointed Auditor: moved Peter Scardoni/James Fox CARRIED 4 8. Other Business 8.1 Amendment to the Constitution The members noted that the Committee had recommended that the paragraph 4 (a) (iii) in Article 4 of the Constitution be amended to read (iii) former ANU professional staff who have given substantial service to the ANU. The effect of the change is to be less prescriptive about the level of staff eligible to join the Faculty. MOTION: That the constitutional change be approved: moved Michael Rickard/James Fox CARRIED. 8.2 UniSuper There was some discussion about the problems affecting UniSuper at the moment. The Chair invited interested members to contact the Secretary so that those interested could all become more informed about the situation. GP 15/12/11 5 ANU Emeritus Faculty Proxy Voting Paper for the 2012 Annual General Meeting I (please print) .......................................................... being a financial member of the ANU Emeritus Faculty hereby give my vote to the Chair to exercise as he sees fit. OR I (please print) .......................................................... being a financial member of the ANU Emeritus Faculty hereby give my vote to the following financial member of the Faculty to exercise as she or he sees fit. Name of Proxy Holder (please print) ................................................................ Signed ........................................................................................................Date............................................ Please return your vote to the Returning Officer at one of the addresses below before 1 December 2012. [email protected] or post to Returning Officer, Molony Room, ANU Emeritus Faculty, Fellows Lane Cottage, Fellows Lane, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. 6 ANU Emeritus Faculty Chair's Report to the 2012 Annual General Meeting First I wish to thank the members of the Committee who worked hard through the year on our many projects. They have given much to the Faculty and through that, to the ANU. Our deepest thanks go to John Molony, the first Chair of the Faculty who guided us through our first eleven years. His contribution has been invaluable to the Faculty and the ANU. John retired in May 2012 and the Committee thanked him for his immense contribution to our formation. His retirement was accepted and the position of Chair was given to Mike Rickard after a ballot. The Faculty also farewelled DVC Mandy Thomas who had been our advocate for many years. She was farewelled handsomely at the Collegiality Luncheon on 5 September 2012. New Premises In September this year the Faculty moved into new premises. We began in the ATEM Office in the basement of University House in 1999. The rent was paid by ATEM, which was a good start. We then moved to a large room in the Chifley Library, then to Fellows Lane Cottage, coming to rest finally in August at 24 Balmain Crescent, a refurbished cottage opposite University House. The building was redesigned and well fitted out for our purposes. While not as large as the previous space, it should be more than adequate for our office and meeting space. At present there are problems of security and arrangements for individual member use which are being considered. The ANU has been very generous in looking after our accommodation and the cost of moving. We thank the ANU for that and expect to provide value in return over the years.