Minutes of the 2004 Folklore & Education Section Meeting

by Carol Spellman, 2004-2005 Section Convener  
   

Agenda

Introduction: Jan Rosenberg, Senior Convener, facilitated the meeting. Carol Spellman, Junior Convener, took notes and facilitated an opening activity called Passing the Batea.

Carol passed a hand made wooden plate painted by Mexican folk artist Antonio Ramos (living in Woodburn, Oregon). All members in attendance, approximately 23, held the batea and shared their name and a brief story about their cultural heritage and a family tradition. This was an effective way to establish a community gathering atmosphere for the meeting and provide introductions of new members and current members.

Minutes of the Last Meeting and Old Business

Jan Rosenberg shared the minutes from the previous meeting in 2003. She then shared information about the Robinson-Roeder-Ward Fellowship. She discussed how to donate money to the award. Regular member donations need to go into the Folklore and Education Fund. One way of supporting this fund is through the Public Program Auction. Funds accrued by the sale of items donated by the section at this auction are for this fellowship award.

Reports

Financial

Carol Spellman provided the financial report. Expenses accrued during the September 2003- August 2004 period were listed at $940.00, leaving the net assets at the end of the period at $3469.59.

Newsletter

Rosemary Hathaway and Gregory Hansen reported on the section newsletter. Paddy Bowman suggested moving the deadline for submissions up to March 15 to avoid the April AFS deadline. Gregory talked about the column for new materials and the 75 word maximum. Gregory and Rosemary passed out cards for people to report on their work in folklore education.

Maida Owens suggested that there be a more systematic inventory of websites. It was mentioned that Cathy Kerst had a listing of websites. Anne Pryor suggested that she would help Gregory look at website suggestions.

Dorothy Howard Prize announced at section meeting
 

Winners of the 2004 Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize were announced at the 2004 section meeting in Salt Lake City. This year's prize went to the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture for "The Hmong Cultural Tour," an online resource at http://csumc.wisc.edu/cmct/HmongTour.

Honorable mention went to Carol Spellman and the Oregon Folkllife Program's "Portraits of Oregon: Youth Exploring Culture and Community." See http://www.ohs.org/education/folklife/Portraits-of-Oregon.cfm for more information.

The prize honors individuals or organizations whose work most effectively encourages K-12 educators or students to use or study folklore and folkloristic approaches in all school environments.

For information about this year's competition, click here.







 
   

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