Minutes Hall of Fame Committee Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Those present were Dennis Joannides, Larry Hansen, Barbara Haupt, Kate Romanski, AR Ginn
Absent were Hob Brown and Sue Rose. The meeting commenced at 9 p.m. and concluded at 10:10 p.m.
****The minutes of the previous meeting held on May 2nd were approved as read. (Larry made motion and AR seconded)
**** John Leininger’s resignation was accepted by the committee. The HFC is requesting the field to forward the names of qualified people who would be willing to fill the remainder of John’s term, until December 31, 2013, and also be interested in serving for a new three year term beginning January 1, 2014 if elected. The HFC may appoint one person to fill the vacancy. If no qualified candidates come forward the position will be left vacant until the general election of the members-at-large positions later this year.
**** Update on our website—Larry Hansen will be meeting with Wendy (the webmaster) this coming Saturday. She has received materials from committee members.
**** Update on nomination forms for the HOF inductees. All nominations go to Tom Ness, the Chair of the Advisory Panel, who sends them out to the members of the Advisory Panel. This group sends their choices to the HOF committee for final selection. Barbara will send this form to Tom Ness, the FTC, and to Nadine for publication on the fieldcockers website with the intention of reaching out to the entire ECS field trial community.
****Update on nomination forms for the FTC. Kate Romanski will ask Sue Rose if she will mail out the forms to all those who are eligible. Completed forms will be returned to Kate.
**** Ordering Founding Members Plaque Dennis will take care of this.
**** Making ECS history available to the field. Committee concurred the website and HOF visuals should be kept simple, concise, and clear with a LOT of pictures. Lisa, Kate, and Sue can disseminate information from the larger body of work for this purpose.
****New Business (1) The Bird Dog Foundation will make corrections to its website re: ECS; (2) Barbara will forward Tom Meyer’s article on NCC 2012 to the committee; (3) Committee members will communicate with each other regarding the nomination forms being sent out on time.
**** Meeting adjourned Next meeting will be 9 p.m. EDT on July 11, 2012.