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The annual board meeting was held on June 14 in St. Louis (at CSNA
2001). The only absent members were Stephen Hirtle, Jacqueline
Meulman, and Fionn Murtagh.
David Banks, CSNA president, noted that CSNA had won a
highly competitive invited paper session for the Joint Statistical
Meetings in Atlanta. We also sponsored an invited session at the
International Statistical Institute meeting in Seoul (to learn more about
the meeting, which was held on August 22-29, 2001, please visit the
conference web site (
http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001). The speakers for the Atlanta session
were Bill Shannon, Mike West, and Giovanni Parmigiani;
the speakers for the ISI session are Carlo Lauro, Daewoo Choi,
and Bill Shannon. CSNA is also participating in the organization of
the next meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies,
which will be held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2002 (see President's Corner).
The Board was delighted that Willem Heiser has agreed to serve as the
next editor of the Journal of Classification, replacing the
irreplaceable Phipps Arabie who will step down in the first
quarter of 2002. Willem is a faculty member at the University of
Leiden, a prolific and fundamental researcher, and a former editor of
Psychometrika. The Board voted him in unanimously, and expressed
delight that CSNA has found someone of his calibre to lead our
flagship journal.
Two new members of the Board, Mike Brusco and Chris Fraley
(replacing Doug Carroll and Francois-Joseph Lapointe whose
terms have expired) were welcomed. In our efforts to recruit new CSNA
members, a four-page brochure drafted by Bernard Harris was approved
by the Board and will be distributed at relevant meetings. Both Harris and
Brusco have agreed to join the Membership Committee and suggested Herbie
Lee and Karl Broman as new members. The Board appointed a
nominating committee, consisting of Stan Sclove, Larry Hubert,
Mike Brusco, and Chris Fraley. This committee will propose
nominees for the two annual vacancies on the Board, as well as the
President-Elect of CSNA. Anyone wishing to suggest names of candidates
should contact Stan Sclove, the committee chair, at
slsclove@uic.edu
(http://www.uic.edu/~slsclove).
Regarding next year's meeting site, the Board heard and approved a
proposal from Bernie Harris to host the 2002 meeting at Madison,
Wisconsin (see Meetings). This should be an outstanding
venue, and the Board expressed their thanks to Bernie for undertaking such a
project on relatively short notice. It seems likely that the original plan
for a 2002 meeting in Chicago will be deferred to 2003, pending completion
of the conference center at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Board extended votes of thanks to Bill Shannon, for hosting the
2001 meeting, to Phipps Arabie, for his seminal leadership in
establishing the Journal of Classification, to Fionn Murtagh, for
his innovative work as editor of Service, to Steve Hirtle, for his
work as CSNA webmaster, and to Stan Sclove, for his longstanding and
superlative work as CSNA Secretary. Informally, we also congratulated
Jim Rohlf on his election to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
As a final note, the membership deserves to be apprised that we may have
to raise the subscription cost for the Journal of Classification. The Board
will discuss various alternatives with Springer, our publisher, and we shall
keep everyone posted as developments emerge. Our hope is that any increase
will be small and introduced gradually, but it is too soon to make a reliable
forecast. (People may want to renew early, to lock in the current rates.)
In all other respects the business of the CSNA Board meeting was routine.
The society is fiscally sound, intellectually active, and the memberships is
steady. We are well positioned to accept new challenges, and welcome
suggestions for future initiatives.
From the Secretary/Treasurer: If this is your first newsletter since
paying your CSNA membership, thank you and welcome to our ranks. It is
your financial support that will enable us to bring you the journal, our
bibliographic research service, and our meetings. We depend upon your
participation to enable us to continue to provide you with
classification-related publications, information and activities.
[from the Minutes of the CSNA Annual Board Meeting submitted
07/15/01; updated 08/13/01 by David Banks]
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