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Minutes from Columbus
by Keith Hunt
Here are the minutes for the 1999 meeting of the ACR Board
of Directors. This meeting took place from noon to 5:30 p.m.
on Thursday, September 30, 1999 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus,
OH, USA. ACR President Joe Alba presided.
Draft of 1999 Minutes (for
approval at the 2000 Annual Meeting)
This meeting is the formal annual Board of Directors meeting
of the Association for Consumer Research. All ACR members are
welcome and are encouraged to attend. Anyone present can add
items to the agenda for discussion. ACR traditionally welcomes
comments from everyone present and often asks for informal votes
from everyone present. Because ACR is a nonprofit corporation,
only members of the Board of Directors have voting power, thus,
on formal matters, only Board member votes determine the outcome.
1. MINUTES - by Keith Hunt
2. MEMBERSHIP - by Keith Hunt - ACR had 1793 members at the
end of 1998. This is the most members ACR has ever had.
3. ELECTION REPORT - by John Sherry - President-Elect: Valerie
Folkes; Treasurer: Barbara Loken: and, Director-Government: Jan
Pappalardo
4. FELLOWS AWARDS (no nominating committee was appointed this
year)
5. JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH AWARDS - by David Mick
6. NEWSLETTER - by Keith Hunt - John Eighmey could not attend
the meeting this year because he is Director of the School of
Communications at Iowa State University and this is the weekend
the School's advisory board visits campus. John provided an e-mail
report on the website version of the newsletter. There were 2,053
hits on the front page from August 1 to September 28, 1999. There
were 267 hits per day during this period. U.S. readers accounted
for 58% of the visits, 25% were from other countries, and 17%
were of unknown origin.
7. PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR - by Jim Muncy - Jim Muncy reported
that all is well with ACR publications.
8. LISTSERV - by Terry Bristol
9. WEBPAGE - by Rajiv Vaidyanathan - Rajiv Vaidyanathan reported
that all is well with our web page.
10. PUBLICATION COMMITTEE - No manuscripts were received or
are in process so there was no Publication Committee involvement
in 1998-99.
11. ACR ANNUAL CONFERENCES
12. ASIA PACIFIC / EUROPEAN ACR CONFERENCES - Having the Asia/Pacific
Conference in even-numbered years and the European Conference
in odd-numbered years is now our established pattern.
13. ACR CO-SPONSORSHIP OF CONFERENCES
14. RESEARCH INDUSTRY COALITION - by Bill Havlena - Bill Havlena
reported on RIC activities during the past year.
15. SHETH FOUNDATION - by Keith Hunt - Terry Shimp could not
attend the meeting. The Sheth Foundation has named ACR as one
of the groups through which it will make grants related to marketing
and consumer research. Terry Shimp is ACR's liaison with the
Sheth Foundation and is the person to contact for information.
In 1999 the Sheth Foundation, through ACR, has funded $6,828
to benefit consumer research.
16. FINANCIAL - by Keith Hunt
17. OTHER
18. MOVE FOR ADJOURNMENT
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