The 2006 Board of Directors meeting of the BRS began at 7 pm on Friday, May 26, 2006 at The Cottage in Iowa City, Iowa. It was continued on Saturday, May 27 at 1 pm. BRS President Alan Schwerin officiated.

Attending were Alan Schwerin, Chad Trainer, Cara Rice, David White, Tim Madigan, Phil Ebersole, Peter Stone, David Blitz, Gregory Landini, Warren Allen Smith, John Ongley, Rosalind Carey and David Henehan.

Minutes from the 2005 Board of Directors meeting were approved. The Treasurer’s Report was approved. Reports from the various committees, especially the Bylaw Review Committee, vice-presidents and the Quarterly’s editors were heard.

The Bylaw Review Committee introduced their proposed revisions to the BRS Bylaws and the remainder of the meeting was spent discussing and voting on these revisions to the bylaws. The committee had been established to devise a system for the board to vote on issues by email and postal mail between annual meetings, but did not address the issue since they had discovered that Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation Law requires unanimous written consent for an action to be valid when approved between meetings, which would be virtually impossible with a 24 member board. (The BRS is incorporated in Illinois.) The proposed amendments to the bylaws were all approved. Revisions adopted included the use of gender-neutral language in the bylaws and provisions for conducting Board meeting when the Chair is absent.

The meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.

The Saturday, May 27, 2006 continuation of the BRS Board of Directors meeting began at 1 pm at the English-Philosophy building on the University of Iowa main campus, where the annual meeting took place, in Iowa City. BRS President Alan Schwerin officiated.

Attending were Alan Schwerin, Chad Trainer, Cara Rice, David Goldman, Thom Weidlich, David White, Tim Madigan, Peter Stone, David Blitz, Gregory Landini, Warren Allen Smith, John Ongley, Rosalind Carey and David Henehan.

Business of the meeting included: election of officers, choice of a site for the 2007 annual meeting, a discussion of whether the Society’s bank balance, or a significant part of it, should be invested in a reasonably secure but interest-earning account (this was Ken Blackwell’s suggestion), whether a Nominating Committee for Board positions should be created (Peter Stone, Ken Blackwell, and Dave White’s suggestion), whether a statement to Iran (Dennis Darland) should be adopted and whether the BRS position on the U.S. invasion of Iraq should be reaffirmed (Ray Perkins' suggestion). due to lack of time, the last four issues were not voted on.

The following officers were duly nominated, seconded and unanimously elected for the 2006-2007 year: President: Alan Schwerin; Vice-President: Ray Perkins, Jr.; Secretary: David Henehan; Treasurer: Dennis Darland; Chair: Chad Trainer; Vice-Chair: David White.

For the site of the 2007 annual meeting, it was decided that it would be either hosted by David White in Rochester or by Alan Schwerin at Monmouth University with the other person hosting the meeting for 2008. David and Alan were to decide between themselves which of them would host the meeting first. (They later decided that it would be Alan who hosted it at Monmouth in 2007 with David hosting it in Rochester in 2008.)

The meeting adjourned at 2 pm.

David Henehan, Secretary, BRS