Friday, October 23, 2009 at SSAWW, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
In attendance: Judith Barlow, Cheryl Black, Martha Carpentier, Drew Eisenhauer, Sherry Engle, Sharon Friedman, J. Ellen Gainor, Noelia Hernando-Real, Ling Jian-e, Basia Ozieblo, Michael Winetsky.<\/p>\n
1) President\u2019s Report:
\nBasia summarized SGS conference activities and publications since the last business meeting in 2006, an impressive list including performances, readings, and papers at Delphi, Cadiz, London, New York, Missouri, and San Francisco. We continue to accomplish the goals stated in the Society mission statement, increasing the visibility of Glaspell and her work in both academic and theatre communities. The future looks bright, with plans for ALA 2010 in San Francisco to be organized by Drew Eisenhauer; the American Drama Conference in January 2010 at Kean College, NJ with SGS panel to be chaired by Linda Ben-Zvi; ATHE reading 2010 to be directed by Monica Stufft; panel and reading at the Eugene O\u2019Neill Society Conference in Greenwich Village June 2011 organized by Sharon Friedman; and ALA Boston 2011. Future goals include increasing membership and publishing more in journals. Ellen volunteered to check Dissertation Abstracts to see if any dissertations other than Noelia\u2019s, Drew\u2019s and Michael\u2019s have been produced since 2006.<\/p>\n
2) Vice-President\u2019s Report:
\nMartha forgot to work on the SGS logo as per the last business meeting; she will try to develop an image using Aline Fruhauf\u2019s caricature of SG so that we can have a logo. Martha read Monica\u2019s Membership and Finance Officer\u2019s Report. We approved Monica\u2019s decision to choose the non-profit, non-interest bearing account and to stay with the registered unincorporated non-profit association status. Discussion of overseas members\u2019 payments ensued. Martha will pursue the idea of putting a Paypal option on the web site for all members.<\/p>\n
3) Webmaster\u2019s Report:
\nMembers thanked Martha and approved her re-election as Webmaster. Martha encouraged members to send her information, pictures, and programs about this year\u2019s events for the archives, and to provide input particularly in June when she usually updates the site. She also mentioned the need to create a copyrights page with Patricia Bryan\u2019s (SGS member and attorney) latest statement about public domain.<\/p>\n
4) Bibliographer\u2019s Report: Martha will e-mail Mary Papke and ask whether she wishes to continue as SGS Bibliographer, and tell her that we need an update every six months and suggest the possibility of a graduate student to assist her. If Mary decides against continuing as Bibliographer, Ellen volunteered to take it on.<\/p>\n
5) Nominations and Elections Officer:
\nMembers thanked Judi Barlow for her willingness to conduct the upcoming election. Even though she is planning a trip to Thailand and Cambodia, she will attempt to complete the election process in November. Cheryl and Ellen agreed to be nominated for a second term on the Executive Council. Judi volunteered to check whether Monica wants to be nominated for a second term as Membership and Finance Officer. Basia noted that any by-law amendments approved at this meeting must receive a two-thirds vote by the full membership. Martha will send the amended by-laws for Judi to include on the ballot. Although according to the By-laws, Basia should continue as President till the end of the year, she and Martha have agreed that Martha should now take over as President.<\/p>\n
6) Awards:
\nAfter much debate, it was decided that the SGS would 1) fund a grant to defray registration costs for graduate students and underemployed Glaspell scholars presenting papers on SGS-sponsored panels or participating in SGS readings at the American Literature Association Conference; and 2) the SGS would award biannual prizes of $100 for the best published paper and $50 for the best conference paper on any aspect of Susan Glaspell\u2019s life and works. This award is open to nonmembers as well as SGS members. The awarding of all grant and prize monies is to be judged and determined by the Executive Council and will be announced at the biannual SGS Business Meeting. Grant requests and papers must be submitted to the Executive Council at least four weeks prior to the ALA Conference.<\/p>\n
8) Proposed amendments:
\nAmendments to Article III, section 4 and Article II, section 1 passed unanimously and will be provided to Judi for inclusion in the ballot for all members to vote on.<\/p>\n
9) Sharon, the SGS representative and organizer for the EONS Conference:
\nReported on plans for the EONS Conference, scheduled for the last weekend in June, 2011. She got permission for the conference to use the Gallatin Theatre, plus a $500 grant from her dean to defray any costs of performing there. Sharon met with EONS organizers Brenda Murphy and Jeff Kennedy, and she proposed back-to-back readings of O\u2019Neill and Glaspell one-acts, in addition to a Glaspell panel, possibly focusing on the cultural and historical background to her Provincetown plays. Cheryl is willing to direct the SGS readings (and, if asked, the O\u2019Neill readings as well). Cheryl proposed another possible idea of incorporating O\u2019Neill and Glaspell into a script she would devise focusing on the Greenwich Village institutions such as The Masses, the IWW, Liberal Club, and Heterodoxy, that inspired these playwrights. Michael Winetsky suggested that, based on his experience at the last EONS in California, there is a significant \u201ccultural divide\u201d between the EONS and ours that might make them less receptive toward such a collaboration. Sharon must find out what their performance plans are before we can proceed with our own.<\/p>\n
10) Members unanimously approved holding the next business meeting at ALA 2011 in Boston.
\nOur association with SSAWW will not be severed and we can propose panels for SSAWW as desired, but given the new \u201cFive Drama Society\u201d association at ALA, we decided it would make a better venue in future for meetings.<\/p>\n
11) Glaspell online: Cheryl volunteered to do Inheritors<\/em>; Ellen will do Close the Book<\/em>, Springs Eternal<\/em>, and Chains of Dew<\/em>; Drew will do Lifted Masks<\/em>, and Michael will continue with the novels. Martha will e-mail everyone the URL and contact information.<\/p>\n 12) New publications: Friday, October 23, 2009 at SSAWW, Philadelphia. In attendance: Judith Barlow, Cheryl Black, Martha Carpentier, Drew Eisenhauer, Sherry Engle, Sharon Friedman, J. Ellen Gainor, Noelia Hernando-Real, Ling Jian-e, Basia Ozieblo, Michael Winetsky. 1) President\u2019s Report: Basia summarized SGS conference activities and publications since the last business meeting in 2006, an impressive list including performances, readings, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nMichael Winetsky will monitor and update the Wikipedia entry on Glaspell. Basia sought volunteers to continue the entries for Glaspell\u2019s works on the Literary Encyclopedia<\/em> online (www.litencyc.com). Basia has already done the biographical entry plus Trifles <\/em>and The Verge<\/em>; Noelia has done Alison\u2019s House<\/em> and several one-acts; Martha has done Fidelity<\/em>, Brook Evans<\/em>, and Fugitive\u2019s Return<\/em>. Links
\nto these may be found on the SGS web site External Links page http:\/\/academic.shu.edu\/glaspell\/links.html.<\/p>\n
\nMichael has published an article in Ecumenica<\/em>; Martha and Patricia Bryan\u2019s Her America: \u201cA Jury of Her Peers\u201d and Other Stories by Susan Glaspel<\/em>l is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press and Martha described their discovery of the original publication of \u201cA Jury of Her Peers\u201d<\/em> in Every Week<\/em> with a different conclusion; Ellen and Linda\u2019s Complete Plays<\/em> is forthcoming in 2010 and Ellen reported their very exciting discovery of a new Glaspell one-act originally performed at a Provincetown festival, which is a political allegory about free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"