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[Lesley Morrow]

March 16, 2011
Dear Colleagues,

Our breakfast meeting at IRA is approaching quickly. Please don't 
forget to send Alan your  $25 dues and $38  for the cost of the 
breakfast. Here is some information about our activities at IRA.

At the breakfast we will initiate new members. They are Ray Reutzel, 
Vicki Risko, Ann McGill Franzen, Greg Brooks, and Jill 
Fitzgerald.  We will do this early at 7:45 since Vicki, who is 
President Elect of IRA has a meeting at 8am and would like to 
participate in our ceremony. Try and come to the breakfast at about 7:20.

In addition we have some business to discuss at the meeting.

Finally we will be remembering colleagues we have lost this year. We 
will be having tributes for Ed. Fry, Donald Graves, and John 
Manning.  There will be some family members there for Ed and John. 
Alan will do a tribute for John, Patty Anders will do a tribute for 
Ed and Jane Hansen will do a tribute for Don.

After the breakfast session the inductees from last year will do a 
session from 9 to 11 which we hope you will attend. Both of these 
events are in the Hilton.

We have some business to discuss. It was my goal to try to begin to 
change RHF from a breakfast club to more of a working functioning 
organization. We have made some progress and I want to continue along 
that path. As you know we had a presentation we did at LRA, we are 
presenting at IRA on Monday May 9th from 1 to 2 based on a proposal 
written by Bob Calfee and I put together a proposal for LRA for next 
year. The Goodman's published an edited book on behalf of the RHF, 
and of course got us our website up and running. They are also 
presenting at the European Conference in Belgium on behalf of the RHF.

To go forward I would like to ask for volunteers for three committees:

1. A program committee to write and submit proposals for future 
conferences  such as NCTE, AERA, etc.
2. A publications committee to write an online newsletter,including 
activities we participate in as the RHF and
activities of importance that our members participate in. There might 
be other types of publications we could work on as well
3. A planning committee to generate ideas to carry out.

I am asking for you to volunteer for one of the committees at this time.
Send me your name and the committee

I am also proposing that the RHF set a time for a business meeting at 
LRA, and IRA (other than the breakfast meeting) to deal with 
business. Our breakfast is for celebration and to socialize. There is 
no time for planning and a lot of business. I will leave the times of 
the business meeting at LRA to our next president Donna Ogle.

With that said, I invite you now to volunteer for one of the three 
committees so they are formed when we come to IRA. When I have 
volunteers, I will let you know who the committee members are and 
appoint one of the members to set a time for meeting at IRA for:
*The program committee to start preparing programs for presentation 
at next year's conferences such as NCTE, IRA and AERA, for:
* The publications committee to start planning a newsletter and other 
publications, and for:
* The planning committee to begin thinking about other things we can 
that would be productive as an organization.

One idea for the planning committee might be to write a letter to the 
IRA Board offering our help in these difficult times. I will discuss 
this further when we meet

If anyone has agenda items for the breakfast meeting let me know. To 
make the Association even more official, I have  a small token of 
recognition for past presidents of the RHF and I will bring an official gavel
for Donna.

Thank you for your participation

Sincerely
Lesley