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A Quarterly Newsletter for Afr[Can Studies Volume Xxxi A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXXI FOR AFR[CAN STUDIES JULY/SEPTEMBER 1998 FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR... ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 1998 Its now been eight months since our arrival at Rutgers and I think that its time we stopped and looked OFFICERS back and shared with you this course of events. As President Sandra Greene (Cornell University) everyone knows, moving is a traumatic experience at Vice-President David Wiley (Michigan State Univ.) best and in this case our trauma was accentuated by the Past President: Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown Univ.) fact that for some reason none of the Atlanta staff Treasurer. Jack Parson (College of Charleston) wanted to accompany me to New Jersey. Executive Director: Chris Koch (Rutgers University) Our first month or so on George Street was marked by a continual battle to keep the telephones working. DIRECTORS Lines would ring and then die when answered, lines would also die in the middle of conversations. RETIRING IN 1998 Needless to say we got to know the telephone man by Keletso Atkins (University of Minnesota) first name. Then there was the basement toilet which Julius Nyang'oro (Univ ofNortb Carolina-Chapel Hill) liked to cover the floor with sewage, but I will not go Claire Robertson (Ohio State University) there. Nor will I dwell upon the squirrels that lived in the closet walls, or upon the day Karen Bryant saw a RETIRING IN 1999 skunk run down a hole and into our basement. The Judith Byfield (Dartmouth University) Gods were kind, the squirrels were chased away and Frank Holmquist (Hampshire College) we never saw the skunk again, but we did get someone Omofolabo Soyinka (University of Kansas) to plug the hole. Having made our office more workable, this is still RETIRING IN 2000 on-going, we turned our attention to replacing our Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University) staff. The Byzantine nature of the personnel system Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University) here is legend. Not only does it eat months of your Eileen Julien (Indiana University) time, but it continually classifies positions too low. This in tum leads to disappointing applicant pools ASA News, Vol. XXXI, No 3 JullSep 1998 which means that you must start allover again to ISSN 0278·2219 reclassify the position. Inevitably you are told that the way around this is to hire temps. Got any idea what its Editor: Chris Koch like to hire temps when the economy is good? Suffice Associate Editor: Kelli Minehan it say that we met one cheery lad who was able to process, with a multitude of errors, four panel Published quarterly by the African Studies Association. proposals in a single day! 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Reinstatement of membership mailings after suspen­ sion may be made by payment of a $5.00 reinstatement fee. only this time around we have learned a thing or two. At the end of June we were fortunate to hire Kelli Minehan to coordinate our annual meeting. Though off to a slow start, this process is now well underway . ... continued on back page WE WELCOME NEW ASA MEMBERS (who joined between March 1,1998 and May 31, 1998) A Abimbola Brett Cohen Deutsch Jan Georg Reitumetse Obakeng Charles Okigbo Sylvie Schuster Korwa G. Adar Tiemoko Coulibaly Tilo Gratz Mabokela Rabala Olana Ruediger Seesemann Cherly S. Ajirotutu C Coulon Maria Grosz-Ngate Anita MC Lees Annette onema Rebecca Shereilis Maureen Anderson Nicholas M. Creary Kingsley Harbor Angus Mc Lees Babara Oomen Adegboyega A. Kelly Askew Rohert Daniels Gilbert H. Herdt Vandra McLean Christine Oppong Sornide Ronald R. Atkinson Danielle de Lame Heather Holtzclaw Berhanu Mengistu Nosa Owens-Ibie Rachel A. 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Schultz WE THANK ASA ENDOWMENT DONORS (who contributed between March 1, 1998 and May 31, 1998) Simon Bockie Augustin Kwasi Fosu Martin A Klein Joyce Millen Pearl T Robinson Ruediger Seesemann Carolyn A Brown Jendayi E Frazer Audie Klotz Folu Ogundimu David P Sandgren Kevin Bohrer Pamela Unda Giles Jon Kraus Maximin Micheline Julius E Thompson Feldman-Savelsberg Bonnie K Holcomb Peter Malanchuk Rice Muhammad Sani Umar Richard H Forbes Bennetta Jules-Rosette AMMbamba Claire Robertson Kenneth E Wilburn Special Donors (gifts of $100 or more) Michael Bratton ASA HAS A NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] ~We Never Close Need information about the ASA, or want to send membership information to a friend? Check us out on the World Wide Web: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/ASA_Menu.html \.. f7 ASA's New Address: Submissions to ASA News received bye-mail or on disk African Studies Association Rutgers The State University of New Jersey will be given priority. Douglass Campus 132 George Street I New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400 July/September 1998 PROVISIONAL MINUTES Development: Development activities in The Executive Director proposed $13,500 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING the executive office are on hold until we "new money" in the budget as a result of a Saturday 21 March firmly re-establish ourselves at Rutgers. 4%, as opposed to 3%, off-take from the 9:00 AM (Chair: Greene) Annual Meeting: Work has begun on this endowment. The Committee approved the Present: Directors Sandra Greene (Chair); year's annual meeting in Chicago. We plan proposal noting that 4% was still rather Keletso Atkins; Judith Byfield; Dorothy to contract the production of the Call for conservative compared to the practices of Hodgson; Frank Hohnquist; Eileen Julien; Papers to Dr. Rainier Spencer, who has other similar institutions. The new Gwendolyn Mikell; Julius Nyang'oro; Claire jOined the University of Nevada. This will expenditure is designed to fund changes in Robertson; Omofolabo A. Soyinka; David allow for the publication of ASA News while the International Visitors Program and the Wiley; Chris Koch (Executive Director); Jack our office is in transition. The National Abiola Lecture. The Committee voted Parson (Treasurer & AASP Representative) Panels Chair, Paul Zeleza is working on the unanimously to approve the budget. theme statement and has begun to put his 5.1 Endowment expenditures would be 1. Approval of Minutes The Minutes of the committee in place. allocated as follows: International Visitors Fall Board of Directors Meeting were Publications: Our publications program is Program, $12,000; Abiola Lecture, $4,000; approved after corrections were noted. on hold pending the re-establishment of the Distinguished Africanist Award, $1,500; 2. Executive Committee Report (Greene) Press at Rutgers. We have asked Rutgers for Book Donations Project, $4,000; ASA Press, The Executive Committee met to discuss the space for ASA Press production and $3,000; Outreach, $5,000; and ASA Lectures draft proceedures for the evaluation of the warehousing and there is every indication at Rutgers, $2,500.
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