Message from Joe Hawes
President, Society for the History of Children and Youth
HELP! The SHCY Needs Volunteers
I am still feeling very positive about our meeting at UMBC. I attended a number of excellent sessions and heard some very fine papers. I look forward with anticipation to seeing the fruits of the many projects now underway in our field. I was delighted to meet so many of you at the conference, and I am sorry I did not have the chance to greet everyone who was there. It was a great pleasure to welcome people from all over the World to our conference. In short we are launched as a society in a strong and positive way, and I hope we can maintain that momentum. To that end let me repeat the call I gave at the business meeting: We need volunteers! In particular we need people willing to work in the following areas:
1) Program for the next meeting
2) Exploring the possibilities for publication
3) Ways of expanding our membership
4) Conference arrangements for next meeting
If you are interested in any of those areas please send your expression of interest to me (jhawes@memphis.edu)
IMPORTANT: some of you spoke to me at the meeting and I noted your name, but PLEASE send an email to me confirming your interest so that all volunteers are in one place.
You have made this organization what it is. Let us now work together to make the next bi-ann...er bi-enn...uh the next meeting even better!
Joe Hawes
