[Usittne] meeting minutes 4_1_10
John Forbes
John.B.Forbes at uvm.edu
Mon Apr 5 15:25:56 EDT 2010
Hi -
Love the idea of having the BBQ in Maine.
John
On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:30 AM, joseph at donovan.net wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wanted to contact everyone about a few things.
>
> First, here is the petition I mentioned that is being circulated
> about saving theatre at UMaine:
>
> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/keep-umaines-theatre-major
>
> Also as Crystal noted in the minutes from our section meeting at
> USITT I have taken over as chair so please feel free to contact me
> through this e-mail if you have any questions, concerns, ideas for
> programming, etc.
>
> On to the very important stuff: Since Dan (the new vice-chair) and
> I are both up here in Maine, Crystal suggested that we host the BBQ
> up here this year. How does everyone feel about this? I live about
> 45 minutes from our campus but would be glad to host the BBQ and
> then head up to school if people would want a tour of our
> facilities. Those of you that took Keith Cornelius' tour of
> Emerson's great new spaces might not be impressed but I think we do
> OK up here. I had been thinking late August, either the 21st or the
> 28th. My house is about 3 1/2 hours from Boston so it could be a
> day trip or you could make a weekend out of coming to beautiful Maine!
>
> Send me an e-mail and let me know what you think of this idea. Or,
> EVEN BETTER, go to the Facebook page for USITT NE and reply to the
> post I just put up asking the same question!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> Joseph P. Donovan
> Technical Director and Production Manager
> Theatre/Dance University of Maine
> Regional Chair, USITT NE
> 207-581-1767
>
> On Apr 3, 2010, Crystal Tiala <tiala at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear members,
> Below are the NE section meeting minutes from the USITT meeting at
> Kansas City. I took the liberty of including the email addresses of
> those of you who are likely not on our listserve yet. If you want
> to continue receiving email updates via our USITTNE listserve, go to http://www.usittne.org/USITTNEList.html
> for directions on how to subscribe to our listserve.
> Sorry to those of you who experience duplications because you are on
> the listserve.
> Be well and thank you for a great meeting.
> Crystal
>
>
> USITT NE meeting minutes
> April 1, 2010
>
> In attendance:
> Crystal Tiala, Andre Schiff, Ruth Conrad-Proulx, Jessica Cloutier,
> Arther Dirks, Mark Johnson, Mike Katz, Russ Swift, Joe Donovan,
> William Beautyman, Deborah Brothers, Jeff Roudabush, Keith
> Cornelius, Mark Constable, Laura Cabo, Merrilyn Jones Taylor, Lee
> Taylor, Ste en Gross, Cosmos Catalano, Michael Giannitti, Mary
> Pfister, John Forbes, Elinor Parker, Michael Franklin-White, Dan
> Bilodeau
>
> 1.
> Term limits for the chair have been approved. (A term is currently
> defined in our Bylaws as 2 years.) We will need to add the
> following to our bylaws.
> “The Chair of the New England Section cannot serve more than 2
> consecutive terms but may return to be chair after a break of a
> single term.”
>
>
> 2.
> Mike Katz and John Forbes will continue working on updating the
> USITT NE website. They will request specific funds from the Chair
> to hire a person to work on this website. This request will be made
> by April 30th.
>
> 3.
> Jeff Roudabush will begin posting on the USITT NE Facebook page to
> see to make the dialog more active. We should pursue dialogues here
> concerning any issues we encounter in work and any workshops we may
> be creating. It should work as a news feed.
>
> 4.
> Addressing the concern that the current economic conditions are
> creating serious cuts in arts programming and academic departments,
> we are going to take the following action:
> - Crystal Tiala will be starting a blog to open the dialogue world-
> wide on why the arts and performance are crucially important to
> ourselves, our education and our humanity. We will link this blog
> to the facebook and website and hope that everyone joins in the
> dialogue.
> - Joe Donovan will send out specific information on how we can help
> send the message to the University of Maine that cutting the theater
> degree program is not a solution to their budget crisis.
>
> 5.
> Many of us are addressing the assessment questions our
> administrations are asking us to conduct about the growth of our
> students. These assessments come in many forms. Crystal Tiala
> intends to continue the dialogue of how many of us have already or
> how we may go forward with assessments in the future. She can
> compile a list of some the best ideas that people send to her.
>
> 6.
> New business:
> New management for USITT:
> The issue was raised that the management of USITT seems to be
> changing and no one has been told how these changes are actually
> happening and how they will affect all of us. They are requesting
> that the Chair find out specific information and ask that these
> changes become more transparent. The members seem to be quite
> concerned.
>
> Complaints about the conference.
> Some members expressed a lot of displeasure about the conference
> because it (1) has been held on holidays and (2) that there is a
> lack of programming because of the 50th anniversary and many don’t
> like this change and (3) that the conference would be better for
> producing organizations if it happened about 3 or 4 weeks earlier so
> they could recruit employees more effectively.
>
> Voting for Chair and Vice-Chair:
> We voted for the Chair and Vice-Chair nominations as a combined vote
> since each position only had one candidate nominated.
> There were 2 absentee votes for both candidates.
> At the meeting there were 24 votes in favor and 1 opposed.
> So please welcome our new officers who will serve until the March
> meeting in 2012.
> Chair: Joe Donovan
> Vice-Chair: Dan Bilodeau
>
> A group photo was taken.
>
> The meeting was adjourned.
>
>
> Your former Chair,
> Crystal Tiala
> J
>
>
>
> Crystal Tiala
> tiala at mindspring.com
> EarthLink Revolves Around You.
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Lighting Designer University of Vermont
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