CAPN Business Meeting, March 25, Reed College, Oregon

Members present: Beverley Berg, Karen Carr, Walter Englert, Mary Jaeger, Ortwin Knorr, David Lupher, Eric Nelson, Nigel Nicholson, Eric Orlin, Lorina Quartarone, Jim Russell, Elizabeth Vandiver, Malcolm Wilson.

            1. The minutes of last year’s meeting in Victoria, BC, were accepted without emendation. These minutes are available on the CAPN website.
            2. Officers for next year: President, Franco de Angelis (UBC); Treasurer (continuing), Nigel Nicholson (Reed); Bulletin Editor (continuing), Malcolm Wilson (UO); Vice President Eric Orlin (UPS). As this indicates, the 2007 annual meeting will be at UBC, and the 2008 one at Puget Sound. Scholarship Committee: Malcolm Wilson, Rick Williams (EWU), Lorina Quartarone (St Thomas). Executive Committee: Catherine Connors (UW), Mary Jaeger (UO), Malcolm Wilson, Lorina Quartarone, Nigel Nicholson, Eric Orlin.
            3. It was decided to maintain the paper mailing of the bulletin, but publish abstracts on the web, and send the directory only every other year to keep the weight of the paper down. Finances are healthy, and the costs of the present type of mailings are low.
            4. Scholarship committee had no report at the time of the conference, and the deadline was extended to June. In the meantime a proposal was received from Anne McMillan, a resident of Eugene, seeking to study at the American Academy of Rome, with a view to becoming an elementary-level teacher of Latin. The proposal was accepted by the committee and funded to the tune of $400.
            5. It was decided to donate $100 to the American Classical League. Nigel Nicholson will be attending the meeting in Philadelphia in June, as CAPN’s delegate. No decision was made on a donation to the National Committee of Latin and Greek.
            6. Jim Russell, UBC, suggested that a short pamphlet explaining what CAPN is and what it does would be very helpful for maintaining membership north of the border. Nigel Nicholson will write one up and circulate it to the Executive Committee. Jim also suggested that we should hold a joint CAPN-CACW meeting in the US, and that we might have a joint business meeting with CACW next year in Vancouver to discuss this. It was noted that such a meeting might interfere with the Canadian government’s willingness to sponsor CACW meetings, however.
            7. CAPN decided to compile an annual list of possible speakers which could be made available to members. Such a list would include CAPN members as well as faculty temporarily visiting the CAPN area. CAPN might even sponsor a “distinguished lecturer,” offering his or her services to local institutions (which would themselves have to cover the bills).
            8. Finally a vote of thanks to Nigel Nicholson and Reed College for hosting the 2006 meeting was passed, and members expressed their pleasure at the prospect of meeting at UBC next year.

                                                            Nigel Nicholson reporting