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Exxon-Mobil Funding Overstated

In her News Focus story “Climate change sparks battles in classroom” (5 August, p. [688][1]), S. Reardon writes that my organization, The Heartland Institute, “has received significant funding from Exxon-Mobil.” The story did not clarify that the amount of support we received never exceeded 5% of our budget. Nor did the story make clear that we haven't received Exxon-Mobil funding since 2006, 3 years before we began mailing research material to school board presidents. [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.333.6043.688

From the Billboard to the School Board

This case covers the period 1993 to 2003. It tells the story of the challenges the Fort Worth Independent School District board faced when the state accountability system revealed extremely poor student achievement and a stark achievement gap. To address the problem, the board hired a dynamic superintendent, Dr. Tom Tocco, who initiated aggressive instructional changes, particularly around reading instruction. Throughout this time, Tocco worked closely with Gary Manny, longtime president of the school board, to maintain district and community support. Manny’s death in March 2002 led to internal board turmoil and questions about the role of the board president and how board leadership should be selected.

Courage Under Fire

This case set in Jacksonville, Florida, covers the years 1998 to 2001. A new nontraditional superintendent, Major General John C. Fryer, focuses on student achievement, but financial needs and Florida law require him to bid contracts for student transportation, upsetting a 50-year pattern of contracting without competitive bidding with more than 100 local contractors, many of whom have only one bus! Though Fryer moves cautiously and slowly, the local bus contractors strongly object. The board, after much delay, is at last forced to make a decision and approves a small number of contracts that include national transportation firms. But then, within just a few days, it rescinds its decision and cancels the contracts. Board President Susan Wilkinson is forced to decide whether to abide by the board’s vote to rescind or follow the direction of legal counsel and sign the contracts.

Legal highs: the challenge for government

In March 2011 the President of the International Narcotics Control Board said the problem of designer drugs was ‘escalating out of control’. The biggest challenge now facing drug policy makers rela...

From the President

In addition to being a professor of biology at a community college, I am also president of my local school board. Of course, as school board president, I hear from many people in my community regarding concerns they have about our district. Recently I was approached by several parents regarding what they perceived as a lack of dedication on the part of several teachers. The parents had observed these teachers arriving late on multiple occasions. They wanted to know how the teachers could be doing a good job when they didn't even care enough to arrive early and prepare for the day's activities. They went on to state that teachers have an easy job. Teachers arrive at work at 8:00 am and leave at 3:00 pm every day. Teachers get every holiday off, in addition to working only half a day when there are institute days. Teachers even get paid to have the entire summer off! No wonder education in this country is in such bad shape.Of course, as an educator, I was upset with these parents who didn't have the slightest idea of what was involved in quality teaching. But I also had to remind myself that I did not personally know the teachers they were referring to. I could only speak to my own sense of dedication and professionalism.This interaction caused me to reflect on teaching as a profession. Obviously these parents felt that teaching was merely a job and a part-time one at that. Unfortunately, many other individuals in other communities across the nation share these same feelings about teaching. Why is teaching considered more of a job than a profession? Being professional means being dedicated to your professional development, both for yourself and for the students you teach. It means being competent and skillful, but it also means behaving in an ethical way. It means putting your students first, and acting in their best interests.In college, my professors encouraged me to join professional organizations. They instilled in me the importance for an educator to see himself or herself as a professional who was part of a larger network of educators. When I began my teaching career at Indiana University-Kokomo, a tenured colleague facilitated my involvement with the Indiana College Biology Teachers Association and the Indiana Academy of Science. When I accepted a teaching position at Waubonsee Community College in Illinois, I joined the Illinois Association of Community College Biologists on the advice of the microbiology professor. My contacts in IACCB in turn caused me to join NABT.Over the years, I've experienced how beneficial being part of a professional organization can be. I've learned a tremendous amount through working with these organizations and have made many professional contacts as well as many friends. Most of all, I have learned how to be a better biology teacher. My associations with professional organizations, and specifically the NABT, have been rewarding beyond description.Today I encourage my own students and the new educators I meet and work with to join a professional organization such as NABT. I always make a point of sharing my own story with them so they can hear a personal testimonial as to the value of being part of a professional organization.Each of you has made the decision to be part of the National Association of Biology Teachers. I don't need to explain to you the benefits and advantages that being a member of NABT bring to you as an educator and as an individual. However, I hope each of you will share your own story of how you came to be part of NABT with your students and your colleagues. Doing so will encourage them to take advantage of all an organization like the NABT has to offer biology educators. A professional organization is only as strong as its membership. The NABT can only become stronger when each of us encourages others to join our community and lend their voices to ours.

Failed Examinees' Legal Challenge over the Clinical Skill Test in the Korean Medical Licensing Examination

The first trial of the clinical skill test for the 2009 Korean Medical Licensing Examination was completed without remarkable problems or mistakes. In this volume, a technical report by Dr. Kun Sang Kim, President of the National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board (NHPLE) of Korea describes the introduction and administration of the clinical skill test [1]. However, afterward, 66 failed examinees filed a legal dispute. In February 2010, they sued the NHPLE to cancel their failure of the clinical skill test based on three justifications. First, there was variation in test item difficulty because the items were different for each group. Second, raters of the clinical performance examinations were standardized patients, not medical doctors like the objective structured clinical examination. Third, unlike the written test, there was no announcement on the passing criteria before the test [2]. Those three issues had already been taken into consideration and the NHPLE felt it had addressed them adequately by adopting the testing system of foreign countries where there is longer history of clinical skill testing than that of Korea. The judge is going to decide the case in early December 2010. The results of this case may influence further execution of Korea's clinical skill test.

Overview of 2010

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 308-310 Overview of 2010 Chloe MacDonald, Chloe MacDonald ANZJFT Board President October 2010Search for more papers by this author Chloe MacDonald, Chloe MacDonald ANZJFT Board President October 2010Search for more papers by this author First published: 29 April 2013 https://doi.org/10.1375/anft.31.4.308AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume31, Issue4December 2010Pages 308-310 RelatedInformation

Find Yourself in the Service of Others

ERAJ DIN is a student at Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois, and serves on the State Farm Youth Advisory Board, is a student relations senator, Rotaract president, and S.T.A.T. board president. Every day I went to school, studied, came home from school, studied, ful filled my responsibilities to my family and religion, and then retired to my bed, unaware of the issues outside of my home in Illinois. I never tried to understand why things functioned as they did. I kept to myself and left the problems of the world out of my life. I was living a self ish life. My life lacked passion, reason, and motive. By Eraj Din

Cost Reduction in Health Systems: Mission Critical

COST REDUCTION has been moved to the top of the list of priorities in most healthcare institutions. As Clark, Savitz, and Pingree noted in their feature article, expense management took on a meaning in late 2008 as patient utilization declined, charity care and bad debt increased at unsustainable rates, and federal and state reimbursements declined. The perfect storm or the new normal had arrived. I am the CEO at a private, not-for-profit, standalone hospital; therefore, my experiences are limited to a single hospital setting. I became a CEO in June 2008. I have been employed at our hospital for 28 years and had been the CFO for 14 years prior to becoming the CEO. In December 2008 two things happened, almost simultaneously. I began to realize that volumes and net revenues were rapidly declining, and I hired our CFO. We immediately went into cost-reduction mode. We sustained heavy operating losses during the last two months of 2008 and for the first quarter of 2009 before getting the ship turned around. We were able to record positive operating margins in both 2008 and 2009, but 2009 was just at breakeven - an accomplishment that would have seemed abysmal in earlier years. Compared to 2008, projections for 2010 include lower FTEs (by 9 percent) and salaries (by 6 percent). Total operating expenses (excluding bad debt) have been lowered by 4 percent. Bad debt continues to increase. We continue to have a positive (though lower than earlier years) operating margin. We are fortunate to have a senior leadership team that has worked together for many years. Our organization has been committed to a strong budgeting process. Senior leaders are very familiar with each department's operations and FTE budget and we were able work with our management staff to quickly put a plan in place to begin to lower costs. We looked at such things as premium pay and retirement plans. Staffing changes were done thoughtfully and strategically, by not filling open positions, managing staffing on a daily basis, and through attrition. All staff requisitions required CEO approval. Capital expenditures were made for items immediately necessary and for very strategic initiatives. We are fortunate to have a relatively modern physical facility and equipment that has been replaced at regular intervals so we can maintain for the short-term without significant capital equipment outlays. We managed our changes with a financial improvement plan, and reports are provided monthly to our employees and board regarding our progress. Our board, senior leaders, management staff, and employee group have been champions - our people have remained calm and positive and have weathered this perfect storm amazingly well to this point. I am proud of our organization. During the period of these changes, our board president and I met regularly with individual physicians. We asked each one if the cost-cutting changes that we were making were affecting their ability to care for patients, and each and every one asked said no. This was validation that we had made the cost-cutting changes thoughtfully and strategically. QUALITY The feature article by Clark, Savitz, and Pingree focuses on cost cutting without compromising quality care. The authors outline the quality improvement initiatives that their system implemented, and notes that they did so while reducing costs. Quality improvement initiatives are an integral part of healthcare and must be in place. Our hospital uses multidisciplinary teams to address our care processes, and the teams implement evidence-based practices and best practices. We work continuously on the National Patient Safety Goals, the CMS quality indicators, and Joint Commission standards. We use a dashboard reporting process so that progress is tracked quarterly and reported to the board, medical staff, administration, and department directors regularly. We have seen our quality indicators continue to improve during this period of cost reductions. …

Cultural Record Keepers: <i>Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library</i>

Cultural Record Keepers:Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library Emily Guss Click for larger view View full resolution When Vivian G. Harsh was appointed to head Chicago's new George Cleveland Hall Branch Library in 1932, she seized the opportunity to capture the African American experience through the written word. Her mission was twofold: to use the library as a platform for fledgling writers and to build a collection of materials by African Americans and about the African American experience. Bookplate courtesy of the Chicago Public Library. Harsh started the Special Negro Collection in the 1930s with books, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs she received from friends in the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.1 The first [End Page 359] collection donated was from Charles Bentley, a prominent dentist and civil rights activist, who willed his collection of nearly three hundred books on African American history and literature to the library. Bentley and Harsh had crossed paths two decades earlier, when Harsh, then a young socialite, attended events hosted by Bentley and other events in their social circles. The Rosenwald Foundation also played an integral role in helping Harsh develop the Special Negro Collection by funding her travel to African American collections in the United States, including the New York Public Library's important Schomburg Collection, the largest in the country and the standard by which all other African American collections are judged. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Vivian G. Harsh in 1920 at age thirty. Photo courtesy Chicago Public Library. The collection Harsh was building did not escape controversy. Andrew J. Kolar, president of the Chicago Public Library's board of directors, suggested her appointment was political instead of being based on merit and that the collection was likely to cause a race riot. Despite this opposition, Harsh persevered by continuing to acquire more materials for the collection. Harsh's semimonthly Book Review and Lecture Forum, launched in 1933, provided a rare opportunity for patrons to hear speakers and participate in dialogue on topics in black history, literature, and current events. During the twenty years of the lecture series, Richard Wright, [End Page 360] Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Horace Cayton, William Attaway, Margaret Walker, St. Clair Drake, Alain Locke, and Katherine Dunham, all prominent writers in the Chicago African American community, participated in the forum.2 By the late 1930s the Hall Branch Library had become the meeting place for young African American writers, artists, and social scientists. Informal gatherings of writers were further driven by the WPA-sponsored Illinois Writers Project and its celebrated Negro in Illinois study, which employed many of these writers.3 After the study was shut down in 1942, the files were donated by Arna Bontemps, one of the study's directors and a major writer of the Harlem Renaissance.4 Of the more than two hundred manuscript collections held in the Special Negro Collection, none has been more heavily used than the IWP Negro in Illinois Papers. The 1945 book They Seek a City, a history of black migration and settlement with biographical data on important African American figures, drew heavily on the files.5 Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake based much of Black Metropolis, the 1945 sociological classic, on the research. Today writers and historians continue to use the study to enrich their investigations. Harsh's collection offered young people a chance to learn about their own culture; many gained confidence to pursue distant goals. John H. Johnson, for example, credited Vivian Harsh with opening up to him the world of black history. Johnson went on to pursue a publishing career, first launching Negro Digest, then later Ebony, which became the most widely read black magazine in the world. Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago (1983-87), recalled that as a high school student he read through whole sections of the Hall library. In Harsh's collection he "was first exposed to black authors such as Carter G. Woodson, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington."6 Many of the writers who...

Psychiatric Foundation Succeeds in Public-Education Mission

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article From the PresidentFull AccessPsychiatric Foundation Succeeds in Public-Education MissionAlan F. Schatzberg, M.D.Alan F. SchatzbergSearch for more papers by this author, M.D.Published Online:7 Aug 2009https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.44.15.0003Last month we held a retreat for our Board of Trustees Executive Committee. We met for two days and worked on a number of key issues that, through these columns, I will be reporting to you over the coming months. We started off our meeting with presentations by the Board president and executive director of each of our three affiliates or subsidiaries—American Psychiatric Publishing (APPI), American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), and American Psychiatric Foundation (APF). Each is doing great work on behalf of APA.Let me begin with showcasing the work of our foundation. This year marks the 18th year the APF, the educational and philanthropic arm of APA, has been working to foster a better understanding of mental illness and, in the process, break down the walls of stigma that surround it.Through collaborations with stakeholders and the building of new relationships with industries not directly involved in health care, the APF, headed by President Richard Harding, M.D., and Executive Director Paul Burke, has demonstrated how powerful and important our foundation is. Its efforts in public education about mental illness and its treatment, its research to improve access to care, the promotion of mental health in underserved communities, and its outreach to medical students make a vital contribution to APA's mission.Over time, the APF has expanded its approach and is forming active partnerships on a number of important projects to support the mental health of all our citizens, particularly the young and those serving our nation in the military.Our foundation has partnered with public television to distribute the mental-health-focused television series “Healthy Minds” nationally. We are, through television, providing information to the general public about mental health in ways that have previously not been undertaken. To complement this, the APF is developing 60-second public-service announcements called “Mental Health Minute” to provide key information to the lay audience on their local television stations.The mental health of military members continues to be a priority for psychiatry. The APF has led the way, through its partnership with Give an Hour, in providing our membership the opportunity to give an hour of free mental health service to veterans, troops, and their families. The Give an Hour network has now grown to 4,400 volunteer providers nationwide.The APF also provides grants to community organizat ions and schools to implement its signature education program, Typical or Troubled, which educates school personnel who closely interact with adolescents to identify the presence of mental illness warning signs and recognize when intervention might be needed. Typical or Troubled is active in 27 states, involving more than 125 school districts and serving more than 10,000 school personnel.This summer the city of Albuquerque, N.M., will begin implementing the Typical or Troubled program in approximately 46 middle and high schools, where it is expected to impact the lives of nearly 94,000 students.Our foundation is also leading the way in raising awareness in the business community about the critical importance of mental health care. Through its Partnership for Workplace Mental Health program, the APF is working with employers to advance effective approaches to mental health by combining the knowledge and experience of APA and our employer partners.The APF also provides grants and awards. One such grant program is the Helping Hands Grant Program, which encourages medical students to participate in community mental health service activities, particularly those focused on underserved populations. The APF, through its Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health, also recognizes psychiatrists, other health professionals, and mental health programs and organizations that have undertaken innovative efforts to raise awareness of mental illness in underserved minority communities.The APF has a distinguished Board of Directors that includes members from the psychiatric profession, as well as lay members with an interest in mental health who come from various walks of life, such as business, law, and other professions. We appreciate their hard work in helping us raise funds, award grants, and develop new programs.Each of these programs contributes to the foundation's efforts to achieve its mission of educating the public that mental illnesses are real and can be reliably diagnosed and effectively treated. It is an entirely self-supporting organization and relies on grants from APA and industry, as well as contributions from APA members. All contributions made to APF are tax deductible and support its efforts to run and distribute its programs, grants, and awards.I encourage you to help us further the profession of psychiatry by making a donation to the APF, either online at<www.psychfoundation.org> or by calling Lindsey McClenathan, APF development officer, at (703) 907-8503.▪ ISSUES NewArchived

International soil and water conservation: My experience and how SWCS helped

I n 1984, I became a member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS), one of the best decisions of my professional career. I joined SWCS at the invitation of Bernie Parsons, a senior faculty member in the Agricultural Engineering Department at Virginia Tech, which I had just joined as a new assistant professor. Bernie took me under his wing and started taking me to Virginia Chapter SWCS Council meetings. He introduced me to most of the key soil and water conservation professionals in the state. As a result of these introductions and the networking opportunities that they provided, I became heavily involved in soil and water conservation activities in Virginia—served as Virginia Chapter president, have been the faculty advisor to the Virginia Tech Student Chapter for over 15 years, served on numerous national committees, and eventually became an SWCS Board member and president. Now, I am involved in soil and water conservation activities across the globe. Bernie's invitation had a profound effect on my life and professional development, and I will forever remember him for introducing me to SWCS. This article focuses on my international soil and water conservation experiences since 2004 when I became the program director of…

The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment: more cracks in the Vienna consensus

many member states as well as some parts of the UN control apparatus. Indeed, despite the severe and increasingly obvious limitations of the current law enforcement-dominated international strategy, the final texts are remarkably similar to those originating from the 1998 meeting. And it was such an apparent disconnect between some aspects of the UN drug control system and the reality of the current global situation that ensured the emerging divisions among a growing number member states would gain such prominence at this year’s CND. To be sure, over the course of the UNGASS decade, it has become increasingly clear that what has been described as the global drug control regime (Andreas & Nadelmann, 2006) has been undergoing a twin process of transformation and weakening. (For an earlier discussion of this process see Bewley-Taylor, 2006.) It is true, as both Mr Costa and the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Professor Hamid Ghodse, were keen to point out at the HLS that the drug control treaties retain an extremely high level of adherence; more than 180 states are currently parties to all three conventions. Yet, such impressive levels of adherence do much to obscure a more textured and revealing analysis of the regime’s true health. Indeed, the concept of regime adherence, or robustness, should be regarded as only one rather blunt indicator of its stability. Other more telling indicators involve an examination of regime effectiveness; a variable that The High Level (political) Segment (HLS) of the 52nd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place on 11-12 March at the UN Office in Vienna. Here, political representatives from more than 130 countries gathered to conclude a two-year review of progress achieved by the international drug control system against the goals set by the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 1998. At that session, in New York, states had committed themselves to work towards eliminating or reducing significantly the illicit production of cocaine, cannabis and opium, and the illicit manufacture and trafficking of psychotropic substances, as well as achieving significant and measurable results in the field of demand reduction by the then planned review in 2008. After six gruelling months of inter-state negotiation, the HLS was also the venue for the announcement of a new political declaration and accompanying plan of action. These, like their predecessors 11 years earlier, would set the framework for international drug control for the next decade or so. However, while containing some positive elements, for example references to fundamental human rights, the documents are in the main disappointing. For instance, although the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, insisted that health should be the priority of the drug control system, both texts remained noticeably silent on the issue. In many ways, they represent the status quo, ‘more of the same’ mindset of David Bewley-Taylor David Bewley-Taylor is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Swansea University. He is currently completing a monograph on the UNGASS decade funded by the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust.

School, Community Leadership, and Election Structure

This article examines how the political structure of school elections contributes to leadership perspectives related to school—community engagement. Interview data from school superintendents, school board presidents, and city mayors across four cities and two election types were analyzed to determine if differences in school election structure are reflected in leadership perspectives. A leadership typology of professional, political, and engagement decision making was used in the analysis. Data indicate that stronger school—community relationships exist where the politics of the election process has not been minimized. Findings have implications for educational policy relating to public school governance.

A River Town Goes Global

AS THE designated photographer for this special moment, I felt a lump rising in my throat as I watched the group of three arrange themselves on the bench in our high school courtyard. The trio included two tall, handsome, Chinese teenage boys and the president of our board of education, who appeared very tiny situated between them with their long arms across the back of the bench behind her. The boys had requested one final picture before they boarded the waiting bus after a two-week stay in Croton-on-Hudson, our small town on the banks of the Hudson River. As I adjusted the camera so the image was clear, I could see tears about to brim over in the board president's eyes as well. Once the picture was taken, she turned to the young men and said, Now, boys, don't forget to call me from Los Angeles so I know you're okay. Since that day, I have reflected a great deal on the past year and our district's experiences as a learning community. In the fall of the 2006-07 school year, an unexpected opportunity came our way when the Westchester County government asked if we wanted to send a delegation of professional staff to China to build relationships with educators there. This opportunity has had a major impact on our district and community, broadening our views, expanding our minds, and opening our hearts to new colleagues, students, and families. Over the next two years, Croton-Harmon School District sent separate delegations of staff and students to visit China and hosted similar visits by Chinese teachers and students. Through the forward thinking of Andy Spano, the county executive, and Daisy Yau, the director of Asian-American affairs and business development for the county, Westchester County had begun to forge business relationships with China. County leaders wanted to expand these initiatives to include education. Although the invitation to visit China came long after our budget process ended, the board of education recognized the potential of such a trip, and district staff and the district's educational foundation cooperated to cover transportation costs of flying four teachers, the high school principal, and me, the superintendent, to China. We also welcomed to our group a teacher of English as a second language who taught in a neighboring school district. The Chinese schools that we visited would be our hosts and cover the costs of our lodging, meals, and travel to cultural and educational points of interest. And so began an adventure that would impact our school community profoundly. Identifying teachers who would make the trip was the first challenge. High school staff learned about the invitation at their opening day meeting. Interested teachers were invited to apply with a written explanation of their interest and how the trip would impact their teaching. Brett Bowden, a social studies teacher contemplating such an experience, wrote: I suppose, I would fully realize what it's like to be a stranger in the Middle Kingdom ... and see firsthand the China we studied in textbooks. History, geography, culture, the changing free-market economy ... what an experience. I'd be able to describe the Great Wall from touch--and compare it to our Croton Dam. I'd walk the streets of Tiananmen Square and secretly wonder how the American Revolution might have been quashed had King George III put down the rebellion before the Sons of Liberty picked up momentum. I might enter a Wal-Mart store in China and see if Tom Friedman is right about globalization 3.0 and whether the world really is flat. And from art teacher Jennifer Moore, we received this: From the beginnings of paper making to the traditions of Chinese Shadow Theater, I try to give my students an idea of the diverse cultures we share around the globe. Exploring the landscapes so often seen in Chinese paintings, viewing the jade and ivory carvings in their traditional settings, and touring the architecture of temples and palaces will educate me on how to directly incorporate East Asian influence into my curriculum. …

Official CMA Correspondence

Abstract On November 7, 2007, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Ethics released an opinion, The Limits of Conscientious Refusal in Reproductive Medicine—an unprecedented attack on the conscience rights of practicing physicians. After consultation with its membership and other leading national organizations, the Catholic Medical Association responded in the letter to ACOG Board President Kenneth Noller, M.D., reprinted below.

A Business Review of the Delaware Series: Good Business for the Informed

Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware. Professor Conaway is a member of the Delaware Bar and teaches corporate, partnership, limited liability company and statutory trust law. In addition, she teaches contracts, drafting for closely-held business entities, and advanced business entities. Professor Conaway is a Commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), a member of several drafting committees for NCCUSL (limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, statutory trust, business organization code, and Article 8 of the UCC), secretary and president of the Joint Editorial Board (JEB) for Uniform Unincorporated Organization Acts, a member of the ABA Business Law Section, partnership and unincorporated entity committees, and a member of the Alternative Entity committee of the Delaware State Bar Association. Professor Conaway is a member of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and Cambridge Who’s Who

War Office Selection Boards 1942–46

In 1942 the first War Office Selection Boards (WOSBs) were established to select potential officers. They employed psychometric tests, outdoor leaderless groups and other situational tests; interviews by a psychiatrist and the board president, usually of colonel rank, played an important part. Results of tests and interviews were brought together after three days at a case conference, and the candidates were graded. I was involved with the system from 1943 to 1946, first as a sergeant tester / psychological assistant, then as commissioned psychologist at HQ, at boards, and finally with a Regular Commission Board to assess emergency commission officers as regulars. This paper describes the reasons for the development of WOSBs, and the procedures they adopted, as well as providing vignettes of many of the psychological and psychiatric personnel involved, and an evaluation the success and impact of WOSBs.

Modernism: An Anthology by Lawrence RaineyThe Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire by John Marx

MLR, I03.1, 2oo8 203 Would a comparable comment have survived inBetween the Acts had Woolf lived to revise this text too, or had times changed? Marshik assumes thatOrlando was vul nerable to prosecution because of its representation of prostitution, butWoolf was probably skating farnearer the edge with her gender-shifting hero(ine), whose very creation may owe something to the threatof censorship. (The device effectivelyallows Woolf to depict sex between two characters both born asmen without risking legal action.) Marshik's detailed discussion ofWoolf's excisions to the textof The Voyage Out isvery illuminating, as isher point thatLeonard and Virginia Woolf became far more vulnerable to the threatof legal action as publishers thanVirginia was as author. Discussing Jean Rhys's Voyage in theDark, Marshik argues, 'The first landlady that the reader encounters refuses to rent toAnna and a friend because she doesn't "let toprofessionals"; thisphrase casts the twowomen as prostitutes and is inaccurate asAnna is a virgin at thispoint in thenarrative' (p. I79). Well, the innuendo may be there,but 'professionals' was and remains a standard non-pejorative term for those in the theatrical profession. There is useful treatment of the censorship of plays in the chapter on Shaw, but somemention of theemergence of filmcensorship might have strengthened thebook's case. The T. P.O'Connor who became President of theBritish Board of Film Censors in I9I6 was theowner of T P O'Connor's Weekly, which serialized Joseph Conrad's Nostromo in I904. The same man thus had a considerable say inwhat was allowed in both literature and film inhis lifetime. This isnone the less an engagingly written study thatbrings togetheruseful docu mentary material and illuminating comment on individual modernist texts. NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JEREMY HAWTHORN Modernism: An Anthology. Ed. by LAWRENCERAINEY. Maldon and Oxford: Black well. 2005. xxxii+II8I PP. JI9.99. ISBN 978-O-63I-20449-7. The Modernist Novel and theDecline ofEmpire. By JOHNMARX. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Vii+226 pp. k45. ISBN 978 0-52I-85617-5. A comparison of these two books shows the extent towhich the scope and key texts of 'modernism' remain debatable. JohnMarx's critical book rangeswidely over let ters, travelwriting, and ethnography, but itskey fictional texts are novels by Conrad, Forster, and Lawrence, writers absent fromLawrence Rainey's anthology.Marx also examines fictionby James Joyce, Mary Webb, JeanRhys, EvelynWaugh, and George Orwell; of thesewriters only Joyce and Rhys appear in Modernism: An Anthology. Of course anthologies veer away from novels forobvious reasons; furthermoreMarx's book is about British fiction,whereas Rainey's anthology has a farbroader remit, covering Anglo-American literature,plus a series of 'Interludes' from theEuropean avant-garde. But the lack of overlap also reflects the difference between Marx's more historicist conception ofmodernism as a diverse and chronologically extended set of responses to,and interventions in, socio-political modernity, and Rainey's more aes theticconception ofmodernism which links ittoexperimentation and theavant-garde. Rainey addresses theproblem posed by novels in 'ANote on theSelection, Texts, and Order of Presentation', arguing plausibly that excerpted chapters are unsatis factory.His solution is to print thewhole of Between theActs, two episodes from Ulysses, and one chapter of Finnegans Wake, but to represent other novelists, such as Ford, Lewis, Richardson, West, Barnes, Rhys, and Bowen, through theirshort stories and essays.Modernism: An Anthology essentially represents avant-garde modernism between the Wars, though itdoes find space forYeats. The anthology startswith fu 204 Reviews turism, so theemphasis ison thenewness and experimentalism ofmodernism, not on any continuities or nineteenth-century anticipations. The introduction takes the same line, stressing the 'wild and irredeemable opacity' (p. xxiv) ofmodernist literatureand making itskey characteristic hostility to 'received conventions of fiction' (p. xxv). For the form ofmodernism which it addresses, Rainey's anthology offersboth breadth and depth, containing, as he tellsus, 'selectedwork of 23Anglo-American modernists, I2women and i imen' (p. xxx), plus selections from futurism,Dada, and surrealism (in the formofmanifestos) and theFrankfurt School. These 'Continental Interludes' are an imaginative way of tackling the problem, endemic to courses on modernism in anglophone universities, of managing the complex relation of Anglo-American modernism to itscontinental European contemporaries. The Frankfurt School is the...

Reflections at Retirement

Abstract Fran Koch served as president of AAMI' Board of Directors from 2002 to 2004 and has been an active member of the Technology Management Council and several standards committees. She shares her thoughts on the evolution of the nursing-biomed relationship during her 40-year career.