The CDSS Governing Board had its general meeting last Thursday and Friday in Easthampton, MA. By my count, there were 23 board members coming in from 19 states and provinces. I’ll share more information about the Board meeting in a later post, but for now here are a few photos I took.
Outgoing Executive Director Brad Foster speaks to the group on Thursday morning:
The Executive Committee of the Board has traveling meetings every November and February, respectively. This February the Exec meeting was in Houston, Texas. Next November — as we discovered at the meeting — they’ll convene in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Here, Linda Lieberman (IA) and Jenny Beer (PA) examine a map showing the locations of past CDSS Exec Board meetings:
Here’s the full list of Exec Board meeting locations since 1996, FYI:
Year | Jan / Feb | Oct / Nov |
---|---|---|
1996 | Washington, DC | Portland, OR |
1997 | Toronto, ON | Berea, KY |
1998 | Philadelphia, PA | London, ON |
1999 | New York, NY | Lutherville, MD |
2000 | Houston, TX | Ann Arbor, MI |
2001 | Seattle, WA | Atlanta, GA |
2002 | Tucson, AZ | Ottawa, ON |
2003 | Minneapolis, MN | Vancouver, BC |
2004 | Durham, NC | Oberlin, OH |
2005 | Tacoma Park, MD | St. Louis, MO |
2006 | Printeton, NJ | Los Angeles, CA |
2007 | Gainesville, FL | Mt. Nebo, AR |
2008 | Ashland, OR | Asheville, NC |
2009 | Lawrenceville, KS | Upper Valley, VT, NH |
2010 | Buena Vista, CO | Ann Arbor, MI |
2011 | Houston, TX | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
Of course, during the breaks there was singing and dancing. A dance in the hallway, called by Pat Peterson (NC):
At the end of Thursday’s meeting, the board celebrated Brad’s 28 years as Director of CDSS:
Among the components of the ceremony was the presentation of this director’s chair:
Those are the photos I’ve got for now.
There was, of course, a seemingly endless supply of chocolate continuously circumnavigating the table. Some of you may remember this fact from my ‘live’-blogging last year’s meeting on Facebook, which you can still read here: Part 1 and Part 2. I regrettably report that Wendy Graham’s (CO) accidental band name “Habits of Creature” has not, to my knowledge, yet been adopted by anyone. Morris teams?
— Max