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Summary of minutes of the executive council
SUMMARYOF MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL THE GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY April
Minutes
of
November
12,
14,
1986.
1987,
Holiday
Adopted
as
Inn,
Strasbourg,
France
circulated
December 30 1986. Council ratified the Committee’s Emergency Executive Committee, action in accepting an offer from Dr Earl Ingerson, University of Texas, to endow an “Ingerson Distinguished Lectureship and Prize,” to be given biennially (alternating with the Presidential Address). Treasurer’s a.
Report
(Peter
Deines).
A motion to amend Articles I and II of the Bylaws carAmendments to the Bylaws. so as to permit setting the annual membership dues after ried, after amendment, approval of the budget instead of before, as had been the practice to date. The amended passages read: I
DUES A. The annual subscription rate for the Societies’ journal shall be reported to Council by the Publications Committee at the Spring meeting. The annual dues of all members shall be set at the Fall meeting with the adoption of a budget for the following year. Memberships are to coincide with the fiscal year... (Rest of IA unchanged.) B.
II
A special meeting...
dues rate (Rest of
for student members IB unchanged.)
will
be set
by Council
at
its
Fall
DUTIES OF OFFICERS A.
The duties of the officers The President, Secretary, Editor shall make annual
shall be the International reports to the
usual ones performed by such officers. Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Society. (Rest of IIA deleted.)
B, C, D unchanged. E.
(Added.) The Treasurer will give an annual report of the previous year’s income and expenses as well as an accounting of the current status of all accounts. He will also provide evidence that the Auditing Committee has verified the accounting for the previous year. At this time new expenditures planned for the following year are proposed and discussed. Estimates of all major expenditures for the following year should be submitted to the Treasat which the final budget for the following urer prior to the Fall meeting At the Fall meeting the Treasurer should also year is voted on and approved. provide an accounting of the current status of all accounts.
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The Treasurer shall assume his or her responsibilities on January 1 following his or her election. It will be the responsibility of the outgoing Treasurer to prepare the Treasurer's Report for his or her last year in office, and to prepare the documentation for the tax return to be filed by the following May 15. The books shall be audited prior to transfer to the incoming Treasurer. b. Summary of Accounts for the year ended December 31 1987 showed total assets of $132,001.29. 4. Secretary's Report (Bryan Gregor) a. Membership statistics. 33 new members joined the Society in the first three months of 1987, 11 of them former student members. Numbers for the same period in recent years were: 1986, 70; 1985, 65; 1984, 56; 1983, 121; 1982, 94. b. Future Council Meetings. The 1987 Fall Council Meeting was set for Wednesday 28 October in Phoenix, Arizona, from 6 p.m. to midnight. 5. President's Report (Stan Hart) The President reported on the progress of the Goldschmidt Centennial Committ~e (C. Sclar, Chairman) in planning of activities to celebrate the centenary of V.M. Goldschmidt's birth in 1988. Council voted a contribution of $200 from the Society towards a fund being established with the aim of saving Goldschmidt's ashes (whose removal from their present resting place was imminent), and of finding a permanent repository for them. 6. Vice-President's Report (Stan Hart for Larry Haskin, in absentia) Committee Appointments for 1988 AAAS Liaison
Bryan Gregor, Wright State University
Auditing Committee
(appointment deferred pending election of new Treasurer)
Clarke Award Committee -
Joe Arth, USGS, Reston (Chairman) Philip Helmke, U. Wisconsin, Madison Cindy Lee, SUNY Stony Brook Martin Menzies, London University C.M. Scarfe, University of Alberta E. Bruce Watson, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Geochemical Futures Fund Committee
Bryan Gregor, Wright State U. (ex officio) (1989) John Dickey, Syracuse U. (ex officio) (1990) Another as Chairman; appointment deferred pending search
Goldschmidt Award Committee
Robert Aller, SUNY Stony Brook Thomas Anderson, University of Illinois Paul Henderson, British Museum Steve Huebner, USGS Reston Ed Mathez, American Museum of Nat. History J. J. Papike, University of S Dakota (Chmn)
(1989) (1990) (1989) (1989) (1990) (1988)
John M. Hayes, Indiana University
(1988)
U.S. Nat. Committee on Geochemistry Liaison
(1990)
(1988) (1990) (1989) (1990) (1988) (1989)
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Nominating Committee
-
Don Elthon, Univ. of Houston Daniel DeMaiffe, U. Libre de Bruxelles Jeffrey Hanor, Louisiana State University John A. Philpotts, USGS Reston Lisa Pratt, Indiana University Danny Rye, Yale University (Chairman)
(1990) (1989) (1989) (1988) (1990) (1988)
Program Committee
-
William Leeman, Rice Univ. (Chairman) Michael Rhodes. Univ. of Massachusetts
(1988) (1989)
7. Report of the Clarke Award Committee (David Crerar). On the recommendation of the Clarke Award Committee, Council voted to award the F.W. Clarke Medal to Dr Eichii Takahashi, Okayama University, for his experimental research on phase relations and origin of peridotites in the upper mantle, and in particular for his paper "Melting of a dry peridotite KLB-1 up to 14 GPa: implications on the origin of peridotite upper mantle," Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 9367-9382 (1986). 8. Report of the Goldschmidt Award Committee (Stan Hart for Bob Kay, in absentia) On the recommendation of the Goldschmidt Award Committee, Council voted to award the V.M. Goldschmidt Medal and the Lester W. Strock and Family Honorarium to Dr Wallace S. Broecker, Columbia University. 9
Report of the Nominating Committee (Stan Hart for Danny Rye, in absentia). The following appointments were made by Council on the recommendaxons of the Nominating Committee: Vice-President Treasurer Councilors
-
Edward Anders, University of Chicago
(1989)
John S. Dickey, Syracuse University
(1990)
J.G. Arth Jr, USGS Reston A.C. Lasaga, Yale University S.R. Taylor, Australian National University
(1990) (1990) (1990)
10. Report of the Publications Committee (Michael Drake) Constitutional Amendment. With the object of incorporating the Special Publications Series (see Summary of Minutes of May 21 1986, Item 10d: GCA Vol 50 No. 10, p. 2391) and the Special Publications Series Editor into the Constitution of the Society, the following amendment to Article III Paragraph 1 of the Constitution was moved and carried (additions are underlined): III 1. The Officers of the Society shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, an International Secretary, a Treasurer, an Executive Editor and a Special Publications Series Editor. The President and the Vice-_President are to be elected-i-y a plurality of those voting. The Secretary, the International Secretary, the Treasurer, the Executive Editor and the Special Publications Series Editor are to be elected on the basisofaty of votes cam=of three years. The Secretary, the International Secretary and the Treasurer shall be eligible for re-election to not more than one consecutive term of three years; the Executive Editor --and the Special Publications Series Editor shall be eligible for re-election to more than one consecutmrr The President directed the Newsletter Editor to place the motion before the membership on a ballot to be included in the next issue of The Geochemical News.
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11. Report of the Executive Editor (Denis Shaw) Associate Editors. The following were appointed in November 1986: G.A. McKay, NASA, Houston; H. Palme, Max-Planck Institut, Mainz; J.H. Weare, University of California at San Diego; B.J. Wood, Northwestern University. Harry Elderfield (Cambridge) has resigned and is to be replaced by K.W. Bruland, University of California at Santa Cruz. Special Groups of Papers. Arrangements are in course for publication of three special groups of papers from the Stripa project (publication possibly in Fall 1987), American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI) January 1987 meeting, and the Fayetteville Meteorite Consortium. GCA Format. Discussions are in progress with Pergamon Journals on the advisability of adopting a page size of 8~" x 11" (instead of the current one of 7\" x 10 3/4") in order to save cost. Reprint Charges. The Publications Committee is considering an increase in reprint charges; reprints are currently being sold at a loss. The Decennial Index is now being planned, and may be out by the end of 1987. The current Volume of GCA (Vol. 51) is expected to reach about 3,200 pages; 3,000 were budgeted. The Executive Editor has. informed the Publications Committee of his intention to resign at the end of his current term (November 1988). 12. The Goldschmidt Conference, Baltimore, May 11-13 1988 (Hu Barnes). Eleven symposia have been planned, and convenors appointed for all of them. Registration fees for members of sponsoring Societies will be $80 (pre-registration) or $100 (on site); $120 for other participants. Five field trips are being organized for the Saturday and Sunday following the Conference, and a special program is being arranged for guests. 13. Report of the Auditing Committee (Stan Hart for David Eggler, in absentia). The Auditing Committee's Report dated April 7 1987 found the Society's accounts to be in very good order, and commended the Treasurer for his diligence and meticulousness.
Respectfully submitted, Bryan Gregor Secretary Note. The full minutes as recorded in the Society's Minute Books will be supplied to any member in good standing on written request to the Secretary, Bryan Gregor, Dept of Geology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435.
Minutes
of
November
12,
14,
1986.
1987,
Holiday
Adopted
as
Inn,
Strasbourg,
France
circulated
December 30 1986. Council ratified the Committee’s Emergency Executive Committee, action in accepting an offer from Dr Earl Ingerson, University of Texas, to endow an “Ingerson Distinguished Lectureship and Prize,” to be given biennially (alternating with the Presidential Address). Treasurer’s a.
Report
(Peter
Deines).
A motion to amend Articles I and II of the Bylaws carAmendments to the Bylaws. so as to permit setting the annual membership dues after ried, after amendment, approval of the budget instead of before, as had been the practice to date. The amended passages read: I
DUES A. The annual subscription rate for the Societies’ journal shall be reported to Council by the Publications Committee at the Spring meeting. The annual dues of all members shall be set at the Fall meeting with the adoption of a budget for the following year. Memberships are to coincide with the fiscal year... (Rest of IA unchanged.) B.
II
A special meeting...
dues rate (Rest of
for student members IB unchanged.)
will
be set
by Council
at
its
Fall
DUTIES OF OFFICERS A.
The duties of the officers The President, Secretary, Editor shall make annual
shall be the International reports to the
usual ones performed by such officers. Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Society. (Rest of IIA deleted.)
B, C, D unchanged. E.
(Added.) The Treasurer will give an annual report of the previous year’s income and expenses as well as an accounting of the current status of all accounts. He will also provide evidence that the Auditing Committee has verified the accounting for the previous year. At this time new expenditures planned for the following year are proposed and discussed. Estimates of all major expenditures for the following year should be submitted to the Treasat which the final budget for the following urer prior to the Fall meeting At the Fall meeting the Treasurer should also year is voted on and approved. provide an accounting of the current status of all accounts.
2591
2598
The Treasurer shall assume his or her responsibilities on January 1 following his or her election. It will be the responsibility of the outgoing Treasurer to prepare the Treasurer's Report for his or her last year in office, and to prepare the documentation for the tax return to be filed by the following May 15. The books shall be audited prior to transfer to the incoming Treasurer. b. Summary of Accounts for the year ended December 31 1987 showed total assets of $132,001.29. 4. Secretary's Report (Bryan Gregor) a. Membership statistics. 33 new members joined the Society in the first three months of 1987, 11 of them former student members. Numbers for the same period in recent years were: 1986, 70; 1985, 65; 1984, 56; 1983, 121; 1982, 94. b. Future Council Meetings. The 1987 Fall Council Meeting was set for Wednesday 28 October in Phoenix, Arizona, from 6 p.m. to midnight. 5. President's Report (Stan Hart) The President reported on the progress of the Goldschmidt Centennial Committ~e (C. Sclar, Chairman) in planning of activities to celebrate the centenary of V.M. Goldschmidt's birth in 1988. Council voted a contribution of $200 from the Society towards a fund being established with the aim of saving Goldschmidt's ashes (whose removal from their present resting place was imminent), and of finding a permanent repository for them. 6. Vice-President's Report (Stan Hart for Larry Haskin, in absentia) Committee Appointments for 1988 AAAS Liaison
Bryan Gregor, Wright State University
Auditing Committee
(appointment deferred pending election of new Treasurer)
Clarke Award Committee -
Joe Arth, USGS, Reston (Chairman) Philip Helmke, U. Wisconsin, Madison Cindy Lee, SUNY Stony Brook Martin Menzies, London University C.M. Scarfe, University of Alberta E. Bruce Watson, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Geochemical Futures Fund Committee
Bryan Gregor, Wright State U. (ex officio) (1989) John Dickey, Syracuse U. (ex officio) (1990) Another as Chairman; appointment deferred pending search
Goldschmidt Award Committee
Robert Aller, SUNY Stony Brook Thomas Anderson, University of Illinois Paul Henderson, British Museum Steve Huebner, USGS Reston Ed Mathez, American Museum of Nat. History J. J. Papike, University of S Dakota (Chmn)
(1989) (1990) (1989) (1989) (1990) (1988)
John M. Hayes, Indiana University
(1988)
U.S. Nat. Committee on Geochemistry Liaison
(1990)
(1988) (1990) (1989) (1990) (1988) (1989)
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Nominating Committee
-
Don Elthon, Univ. of Houston Daniel DeMaiffe, U. Libre de Bruxelles Jeffrey Hanor, Louisiana State University John A. Philpotts, USGS Reston Lisa Pratt, Indiana University Danny Rye, Yale University (Chairman)
(1990) (1989) (1989) (1988) (1990) (1988)
Program Committee
-
William Leeman, Rice Univ. (Chairman) Michael Rhodes. Univ. of Massachusetts
(1988) (1989)
7. Report of the Clarke Award Committee (David Crerar). On the recommendation of the Clarke Award Committee, Council voted to award the F.W. Clarke Medal to Dr Eichii Takahashi, Okayama University, for his experimental research on phase relations and origin of peridotites in the upper mantle, and in particular for his paper "Melting of a dry peridotite KLB-1 up to 14 GPa: implications on the origin of peridotite upper mantle," Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 9367-9382 (1986). 8. Report of the Goldschmidt Award Committee (Stan Hart for Bob Kay, in absentia) On the recommendation of the Goldschmidt Award Committee, Council voted to award the V.M. Goldschmidt Medal and the Lester W. Strock and Family Honorarium to Dr Wallace S. Broecker, Columbia University. 9
Report of the Nominating Committee (Stan Hart for Danny Rye, in absentia). The following appointments were made by Council on the recommendaxons of the Nominating Committee: Vice-President Treasurer Councilors
-
Edward Anders, University of Chicago
(1989)
John S. Dickey, Syracuse University
(1990)
J.G. Arth Jr, USGS Reston A.C. Lasaga, Yale University S.R. Taylor, Australian National University
(1990) (1990) (1990)
10. Report of the Publications Committee (Michael Drake) Constitutional Amendment. With the object of incorporating the Special Publications Series (see Summary of Minutes of May 21 1986, Item 10d: GCA Vol 50 No. 10, p. 2391) and the Special Publications Series Editor into the Constitution of the Society, the following amendment to Article III Paragraph 1 of the Constitution was moved and carried (additions are underlined): III 1. The Officers of the Society shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, an International Secretary, a Treasurer, an Executive Editor and a Special Publications Series Editor. The President and the Vice-_President are to be elected-i-y a plurality of those voting. The Secretary, the International Secretary, the Treasurer, the Executive Editor and the Special Publications Series Editor are to be elected on the basisofaty of votes cam=of three years. The Secretary, the International Secretary and the Treasurer shall be eligible for re-election to not more than one consecutive term of three years; the Executive Editor --and the Special Publications Series Editor shall be eligible for re-election to more than one consecutmrr The President directed the Newsletter Editor to place the motion before the membership on a ballot to be included in the next issue of The Geochemical News.
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11. Report of the Executive Editor (Denis Shaw) Associate Editors. The following were appointed in November 1986: G.A. McKay, NASA, Houston; H. Palme, Max-Planck Institut, Mainz; J.H. Weare, University of California at San Diego; B.J. Wood, Northwestern University. Harry Elderfield (Cambridge) has resigned and is to be replaced by K.W. Bruland, University of California at Santa Cruz. Special Groups of Papers. Arrangements are in course for publication of three special groups of papers from the Stripa project (publication possibly in Fall 1987), American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI) January 1987 meeting, and the Fayetteville Meteorite Consortium. GCA Format. Discussions are in progress with Pergamon Journals on the advisability of adopting a page size of 8~" x 11" (instead of the current one of 7\" x 10 3/4") in order to save cost. Reprint Charges. The Publications Committee is considering an increase in reprint charges; reprints are currently being sold at a loss. The Decennial Index is now being planned, and may be out by the end of 1987. The current Volume of GCA (Vol. 51) is expected to reach about 3,200 pages; 3,000 were budgeted. The Executive Editor has. informed the Publications Committee of his intention to resign at the end of his current term (November 1988). 12. The Goldschmidt Conference, Baltimore, May 11-13 1988 (Hu Barnes). Eleven symposia have been planned, and convenors appointed for all of them. Registration fees for members of sponsoring Societies will be $80 (pre-registration) or $100 (on site); $120 for other participants. Five field trips are being organized for the Saturday and Sunday following the Conference, and a special program is being arranged for guests. 13. Report of the Auditing Committee (Stan Hart for David Eggler, in absentia). The Auditing Committee's Report dated April 7 1987 found the Society's accounts to be in very good order, and commended the Treasurer for his diligence and meticulousness.
Respectfully submitted, Bryan Gregor Secretary Note. The full minutes as recorded in the Society's Minute Books will be supplied to any member in good standing on written request to the Secretary, Bryan Gregor, Dept of Geology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435.