MCD Business Meeting,
Saturday, 4/2/05
Signed in: Dennis
Robertson, Teresa Taylor, Tony DeMars, Bill Swain, Gary
Copeland, Wendy
Hajjar, David Goff, Linda Goff, Barry P. Smith, Melissa
Smith, Alan
Albarran, Mary Dukes, Dean Farmer
Robertson called
the meeting to order at 8:04 a.m. Minutes of the 2004
business meeting
were noted as posted on the MCD web site and were
approved. In
officers’ reports, DeMars noted the posting of information
on the MCD web
site and discussed planning issues for SSCA 2006 in Dallas.
Feedback was
requested for ideas such as a social event and tour of such
places as ABC
Radio, PriMedia Workplace Learning, broadcast facilities or
production
houses. Robertson asked for comments. Albarran offered
comments and
suggestions of locations and offered a trip to the RTVF
Department at the
University of North Texas. Hajjar noted that Texas
would be a good
place to reach out to high school teachers because of a
college credit
program. David Goff recommended continuing the production
showcase but to
also the need to get people to talk about creative
competition.
Albarran mentioned the MCD should attempt to make
arrangements for
getting involvement from the Texas Association of
Broadcast
Educators.
Taylor reported
that the MCD received six competitive papers and six panel
proposals, with
three entries for the production showcase. Taylor also
noted that the
MCD got a limited number of slots in the SSCA program and
that she fought
to keep the production showcase, but would have had to
give up two other
slots in order to do so. She noted that the Tampa
production
showcase, occurring over two session times, but really only‘half a session’
based on participation, may have hurt this year’s
production
showcase. She also noted that the timing for paper submissions
coinciding with
hurricane damage may have hurt the paper submission
totals. Swain
made a comment about a need for generating more
submissions.
Robertson noted the Dallas location in 2006 should allow the
MCD to encourage
more student submissions.
Robertson then
noted that upcoming SSCA sites will be Louisville in 2007,
Savannah in 2008,
and Virginia Beach in 2009. SSCA had voted not to do a
joint conference
with Central States in 2010, and so the 2010 will be in
Memphis or New
Orleans. Robertson also noted that all SSCA divisions went
through a
slump...MCD had dropped to 62 members but now back up to 83, the
5th largest SSCA
division. Robertson also noted from the SSCA general
business meeting
that the membership had (1) voted in favor of allowing
Taylor &
Francis to publish the Southern Communication Journal, (2) had
agreed to have
SSCA included with Ebsco Host, and (3) voted to put $2500
back into the
budget to allow a mailed-out newsletter again.
Hajjar noted that
the MCD needed a better means of publicity in its next
call for papers
and that it should be done in the spring; there were other
comments about
issues related to the low number of submissions.
In officer
elections, Copeland nominated Melissa Smith as vice-chair
elect/secretary,
seconded by DeMars. There were no other candidates put
forward and Smith
was elected. Robertson noted the remaining MCD sessions
at SSCA and
encouraged members to attend. The meeting was adjourned at
8:40 with a
desire noted to not have an 8:00 business meeting in the
future.
Recorded by Tony
DeMars, secretary.