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Candidates for Board Positions: Secretary

Compiled by Ruth Beattie
Chair, Nominations Committee
University of Kentucky
rebeat1@uky.edu

Secretary (2-year term)

The Secretary shall keep minutes of all meetings of members of the Board of Directors, as well as the annual meeting, be the custodian of all corporate records, give all notices as required by law or by the By-Laws, as well as perform any other duties as may be required by law, by the Articles of Incorporation, by the By-laws, or which may be assigned by the Board of Directors.

Summary of responsibilities:

• Prepare Minutes of Board Meeting(s) and the Annual Business Meeting.
• Be custodian of all records and stationary.
• Maintain and distribute the By-Laws of the Association.

Nominee:

Dr. Robert Hodson
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Univ. of Delaware
Newark DE 19716

E-mail: hodson@UDel.Edu

Statement:

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware with responsibilities in the Department of Biological Sciences and the University Honors Program. I participate in the two-semester Introductory Biology course sequence taken by all majors and many science students in other departments. In addition to lecturing I author the second semester laboratory manual which has investigations with plants, animals, and ecology, and I teach an honors laboratory section and oversee all graduate and undergraduate student assistants. Managing a teaching computer server is a recent activity. The server is used primarily by introductory biology students, but it is available to upper level course students and to organizations such as Boy Scouts and ABLE.

I have been a member of ABLE since 1999 with its annual meeting at the University of Nebraska, and I have attended all meetings since then. I have given two major workshops and one mini workshop at the last two meetings (Florida State University, University of Nevada at Las Vegas). It has been rewarding to be active with ABLE as secretary for the last two years. In addition to performing the formal duties of secretary, I think I can provide some useful computing expertise to ABLE as the organization becomes more involved with electronic communications.

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