How AAPG Domestic Sections & Conventions are Organized
APPENDIX: Input from Section Presidents & Committee Members
Mid-Continent
| Executive Committee: | Four officers and Past President |
| Officers: | President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer Elected from Council and generally elected from convention host societies; occasionally from small societies (note that many smaller society leaders are not AAPG members). |
| Terms of office: | Two years, each office; 10 year obligation if complete rotation |
| Officer rotation: | Yes, generally. President elected from convention host society. |
| Governing body: | Yes, have a 14-member Council from which officers are elected. |
| Representatives: | Elected by societies; one from each society, possibly a second based on population, not usually the same persons as HOD representatives; representatives to Advisory Council and Divisions are invited, non-voting members |
| Committees: | No standing committees |
| Staff: | None |
| Legal address: | |
| Website: | None current |
| Insurance: | |
| Foundation: | No |
| Teacher Awards: | Yes |
| Student Awards: | Yes, indirectly by matching local society awards. |
| Honors & Awards: | Honorary Membership; Distinguished Service |
| Annual Section Convention | |
| Frequency: | Biennially; this poses continuity challenges |
| City rotation: | Yes; historically four cities to match officer rotation, currently changing to three cities and possible ‘off-site’ year. |
| Profit split: | 65% to host society, 35% to Section (under review to include all societies) |
| Society Host: | Yes |
| Co-hosts: | Some (SEPM, KIOGA, etc) |
| Standing Committee: | No |
| Opening session: | Yes |
| National platform: | Yes, usually opening session, sometimes all-convention luncheon |
| Awards ceremony: | |
| All-convention luncheon: | When appropriate, with Opening Session |
| Division luncheon: | Some, or an SEPM luncheon |
| Division sessions: | Some |
| Division awards: | No |
| Use national abstracts: | No |
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