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Conference Travel Subsidies: CAAS is offering modest subsidies of up to $500 for travel to the 2010 Annual Meeting in New Jersey. Only CAAS members are eligible for these subsidies, which are need-based, and priority for funding will be given to presenters of papers, panel participants, and presiders. Application forms must be sent as email attachments to Shelley Haley at a special email address (caassubs@hamilton.edu) no later than August 21, 2010. Download the application form as a Word file, type in the information, save it by adding your own last name to the filename (e.g., TravelSubsidyForm_Smith.doc), and email it as an attachment to Shelley. NB: please fill in all sections on the first two pages of the form.

Clack Lecture and 2010 Annual Meeting Program: The 2010 meeting will be held on October 7-9, 2010, at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel in Elizabeth, New Jersey (hotel website will open in a new page). A highlight of this meeting will be the first annual Jerry Clack Lecture, “We Must Call the Classics Before a Jury of the Shipwrecked: What Classics Can Do Now,” delivered by W. Robert Connor, preceded by a special reception in Jerry Clack's honor at the Newark Museum (more information about this special event). The program is now online and will be updated as needed. Registration materials will be mailed to all CAAS members soon and also posted on the website.

CAAS Grants: The Grants Committee has posted new application procedures for CAAS Grants, including a rolling review process and an online application form; see the Grants page for more information. The Committee is pleased to announce that it has recently awarded program grants to Michael Goyette of the CUNY Graduate School and to Lisa Whitlatch and Ben Hicks of Rutgers University for graduate student conferences, and a resource grant to Mary A. Redline of Parkland High School in Allentown, PA, for Latin promotional activities.

Slate of CAAS Candidates for Election: The Nominations Committee is pleased to announce that the CAAS Board of Directors at its April 24 meeting approved the following slate of candidates for election by the voting members of CAAS, either by mail proxy ballot or in person at the Business Session during the 2010 annual meeting:

• Officer-at-Large: Phyllis Culham, US Naval Academy
• President: Sarolta Takács, The Sage Colleges
• First Vice President: Shelley Haley, Hamilton College
• Second Vice President: Frederick Booth, Seton Hall University
• Regional Director (Delaware): Lynn Sawlivich, University of Delaware
• Regional Director (Maryland): Thomas McCreight, Loyola University Maryland
• Regional Director (Northern New Jersey): Sean Lake, Seton Hall University
• Regional Director (Southern New Jersey): Elizabeth Bache, Wall Township Intermediate School
• Regional Director (New York City and Long Island): Sulochana Asirvatham, Montclair State University (resident of Manhattan)
• Regional Director (Central and Western Pennsylvania): Brett Rogers, Gettysburg College
• Regional Director (Eastern Pennsylvania): Mark Clauser, Easton Area High School
• Regional Director (Philadelphia): Valentina DeNardis, Villanova University

NB: Members may nominate an additional candidate or candidates through a petition signed by at least fifteen CAAS members eligible to vote. The petition must be received by the Executive Director no later than July 1, and nominees must be CAAS members who reside and/or work in the CAAS region. Nominees with a valid petition will be added to the slate of candidates mailed to members along with materials for the annual meeting and presented for election in the Business Session.

CAAS Appointments: The Nominations Committee is also pleased to announce that the CAAS Board of Directors at its April 24 meeting approved the following appointments, most of which will become effective October 9:

• Officers and Directors:
  • Secretary: Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University
  • Treasurer: John Jacobs, The Montclair Kimberley Academy
  • Regional Director (Maryland): Thomas McCreight, Loyola University Maryland (July 1 to October 9, completing John Jacobs' term)
• Non-Board Positions:
  • Hahn Committee Chair: Raymond Capra, Seton Hall University
  • 2010 American Classical League Delegates: Valentina DeNardis and Donal Spence McGay
  • National Committee on Latin and Greek Delegate: Valentina DeNardis (June 2010, substituting for Chris Ann Matteo)

2010 Hahn Scholar: The Hahn Scholarship Committee announces that Jennifer A. Larson, who teaches at Mount Saint Mary’s Academy in Watchung New Jersey, has been awarded a Hahn scholarship to attend the American School of Classical Studies in Athens during the summer of 2010.