Convention Chair Barry Schrader welcomed delegates to the opening session of the AAPA 2010 Convention at 9:06 am on Friday morning. After noting several administrative details (including the 25 cent fine for any cell phones that either ring or are used), he turned the podium over to President Mike O'Connor.
Mike asked each of the 19 persons present to give a brief introduction. He then asked the officers present to come forward and give a report.
First VP Mike Coughlin described his efforts to recruit new members, including a poster printed by Mike O'Connor that Mike C. then distributed to about 50 book arts organizations. He encouraged all members to share recruiting ideas with him.
Secretary-Treasurer Ivan Snyder distributed and then commented upon a 3-page report on AAPA finances and membership statistics.
Mike read a report from Official Editor Dean Rea, who promised to have full-color 40-page issues of AAJ during AAPA's 75th year. Dean will cut costs by making the volume available on-line.
Board of Directors chair Lee Hawes noted there would be a special award during The Fossils' luncheon at noon.
Webmaster Dave Tribby noted one glitch during the year -- a report by a hotmail user of receiving spam from AAPA -- was successfully dealt with.
Mike handed out the results of a survey he took of opinions on changing the AAPA logo. One of the responders turned in a logo drawn by Michael Silberman in 1971, and a number of delegates thought it looked like a good alternative.
Ron Hylton gave the first featured presentation of the morning: ETAOIN is my love. After learning how to run a Linotype in high school, he was a professional printer until the late 1980s. At that point he went into the mortuary business (he had done printing for 14 funeral homes and was comfortable with the business). He kept Intertype and Ludlow casting machines and two Heidelberg presses for his own printing needs. A few years ago he found AAPA on the Web, and then after he met Ivan Snyder in nearby Portland, he knew AAPA was the place for him. It gives him a reason to compose essays on the Intertype keyboard, just like old weekly newspapers. At the conclusion of his talk, he played a ten minute video showing his print shop.
For the second featured presentation of the morning, Susan Petrone went on-line and showed ten different Web sites that allow you to do things that you cannot do on paper. There are a lot of new tools available for communication, so she urged members to take advantage of these in addition to the ones we already use.
Since there was a little time available in the morning session, Ivan Snyder got on the computer and showed how to access the AAPA 2010 convention photo album and blog, plus the online membership directory.
