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ATA 2007 Elections: Candidates Announced

 

ATA will hold its regularly scheduled election at the upcoming 2007 ATA Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, to elect a president-elect, secretary, treasurer, and three directors. The candidates’ statements will be published in the September issue of The ATA Chronicle.

Further nominations, supported by acceptance statements in writing by each additional nominee and a written petition signed by no less than 35 voting members, must be received by the Nominating Committee within 30 days of publication by ATA’s Board of Directors of the names of nominees proposed by the Nominating Committee. Acceptance statements and petitions may be faxed to the chair of the Nominating Committee, Tuomas Kostiainen, in care of ATA Headquarters at (703) 683-6122.

Candidate statements and photos of the candidates will appear in the September issue of The ATA Chronicle. Official proxies will be mailed to all eligible voters prior to the conference. Votes may be cast: 1) in person at the conference; 2) by proxy given to a voting member attending the conference; or 3) by proxy sent to ATA Headquarters by the date indicated in the instructions enclosed with the proxies. The candidates proposed by the Nominating Committee are:

President-elect (two-year term)
Nicholas Hartmann

Secretary (two-year term)
Virginia Perez-Santalla

Treasurer (two-year term)
Peter Krawutschke

Director (three positions, three-year terms)
Alan Melby
Michael Metzger
S. Alexandra Russell-Bitting
Caitilin Walsh
Ted Wozniak

 

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