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Chairman's Cornerby Ed Dolly, ChairmanYour officers, committee chairs and committee members have been working diligently on House business affecting the AAPG membership. Early committee participation has been moving forward briskly in order to meet the deadlines necessitated by this short business year. (See "Short Business Year" of the September DV.) In this issue of The Delegates' Voice, you will read about the committee activities in their respective reports. Terry, Marty and I attended a joint meeting of the Executive Committee, Advisory Council and the House of Delegates' officers in August, where we represented the House in planning activities for the year. More on that meeting appears in another article in this DV. We are keeping all the Delegates informed through articles and reports published in The Delegates' Voice and posted on the HoD Forum. I have asked the committee chairs to post items of interest on the Forum as soon as they have completed preliminary and/or final committee activity. It is my plan to attend the Delegates' breakfast at each of the Section meetings this year. To date, I have gone to Kalamazoo for the Eastern Section meeting and to Amarillo for Mid-Continent's meeting. At those meetings I had the opportunity and privilege to talk with Delegates, officers and other local attendees about House activities and the AAPG in general. By the time you read this article, I will have also attended the Delegates' breakfast at the Gulf Coast Section meeting in Shreveport. The Southwest Section meeting will be held in Houston next March in conjunction with the annual AAPG Convention and both the Pacific and Rocky Mountain Sections are scheduled to meet later in the spring. One area of concentration this year is the under-representation in the HoD of some Affiliated Societies. Each society, large or small, is important to the success of AAPG programs and we would like to have input from all societies as members of the greater geological community. As you know, the HoD passed a procedure for the "disaffiliation" of an inactive Affiliated Society. I personally hope that this procedure is NEVER used. There are sixteen Affiliated Societies that currently have NO elected Delegates and seven that are under-represented. We (your officers and the Resolutions Committee, with the assistance of Donna Riggs at AAPG Headquarters) are in the process of corresponding with representatives of each of those under-represented societies and will help them arrange for elections to fill their Delegate complement. We will also encourage those societies to become active in AAPG programs.
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Visit the House Forum for Updates
The House officers and committee chairs will be posting on the House Forum more updates and additional information for the House meeting on March 10, 2002. Be sure to visit Delegate's Forum often, and discuss the issues with fellow delegates and AAPG members before the meeting.