Re: [AISdiscuss] Re: AIS Bulletin Scientific Editor

[bfilardi@comcast.net]

Did I somehow miss some discussion??!!  Suddenly there are two messages from Jeanne, on the topics of Life Memberships and a Scientific Committee Liaison, and I saw nothing earlier on those topics.  Not sure where they came from!  

Anyway: I thought that Gary White was the Liaison between the Scientific Committee and the Board.  He certainly holds that "position" in terms of dealing with the Scientific Committee on Bulletin topics, so wouldn't it make sense to make him the official Board Liaison at the same time?

Bruce
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> Greetings; 
> I want to make clearer one aspect of my proposition that we consider 
> consolidating the Scientific activities of AIS. With regard to the group's 
> "chairman," it was always my thought that the Scientific board would choose 
> their 
> own chairman -- or choose to have "none," and work in unison as a panel. 
> My suggstion was to have a voting Board member as a liaison -- a 
> courrier -- a conduit (choose a title)-- between the Scientific panel and the 
> Board, 
> thereby relieving members of the panel from ever attending board meetings 
> (unless they wanted to) and providing them with a direct and involved voice on 
> the Board, in much the same way the RVP and Section Councellors work . A 
> Board member who was directly connected to the panel but not as chairman, or -- 
> to 
> quote Don Spoon, "Czar", but a conduit to insure that communications between 
> the panel and the Board are instructive or advisory and (importantly) 
> timely. The liaison would bring the committee's report's) to the Board and 
> report 
> back to the panel the actions and suggestions of the Board. 
> In my mind this individual would have no more authority over the 
> scientific panel than any other member of the Board of Directors, just as the 
> Section 
> and RVP Counsellors have no more authority over their panels than any other 
> Board member. Our Section and RVP councellors are very valuable Board 
> representatives and have the opportunity to bring their diverse groups to 
> greater 
> unity and harmony with each other and with the AIS, and providing mutual benefit 
> for all. 
> Couldn't such a representative work similarily with a scientic panel and 
> produce beneficial results for all? 
> Jeanne 
> 
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