American Philosophical Association
Central Division
Draft Minutes: 2007 Business Meeting

Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Wabash Parlor
Friday, April 20, 2007

1. Call to Order. President Ted Cohen called the meeting to order at 12:15 p.m. and appointed Larry May parliamentarian for the meeting.

2. Approval of Minutes. The draft Minutes of the 2006 meeting, as printed in Proceedings and Addresses of the APA, Vol. 80 #4 (February 2007), pp. 155-157, were approved without correction.

3. Report on the 2007 Executive Committee Meeting. Secretary-Treasurer Robin Smith reported on the actions of the 2007 Executive Committee. [See the draft Minutes of the 2007 Executive Committee meeting published immediately following these Minutes.]

4. Report of the Nominating Committee. Past President Eleonore Stump presented the Report of the 2006-2007 Nominating Committee, as printed in Proceedings and Addresses of the APA, Vol. 80 #4 (February 2007), p. 163. President Ted Cohen noted that the Division’s Bylaws allow additional nominations to be added from the floor by any group of ten members present and asked if there were such nominations forthcoming. None were proposed. The list of nominees as prepared by the Nominating Committee is therefore to be sent to mail ballot.

5. Reports from the Board of Officers, the National Office, APA Committees.

6. Recognition of Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winners. President Karl Ameriks read the names of those who had received Graduate Student Travel Stipend Awards, as printed on pages 11-12 of the Proceedings and Addresses of the APA, Vol. 80 #4 (February 2007).

7. New Business. No items were introduced under New Business.

8. Memorial. President Ted Cohen read the names of those members of the Association who had died since the last meeting of the Central Division:

William H. Aiken, Jr.
R.E. Allen
Barbara Albertson
Henry A. Alexander
John Arthur
Norman Bernstein
Russell Blackwood
Helen M. Cartwright
Laurence L. Cassidy
Sibyl S. Cohen
Alan A. Cooley
James A. Diefenbeck *
Ellery Eells
Ned S. Garvin
Rob Gildert
Carl F.H. Henry
Thomas E. Hill, Sr.
Daniel Kading
Edwin G. Lawrence
Constance Leibowitz
Edward H. Madden
Don E. Marietta, Jr.
Richard V. Mason
Arthur R. Miller
D.Z. Phillips
Dale M. Riepe
James Rizik
Eugene E. Ryan
Ernest Schwarcz
Hubert R.G. Schwyzer
Hans Seigfried
Paul L. Shiman
Surjit Singh
John-Christian Smith VI
Timothy D. Sullivan
Eldon L. Stevens
Theodore E. Uehling, Jr.
Reinhard Ulrich
Allan B. Wolter
Iris M. Young
William Zaferson
* James A. Diefenbeck died in 7/05. The APA was notified 6/06.

9. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 1:36 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Robin Smith, Secretary-Treasurer
APA Central Division