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COMMISSION ON FAMILY COMMUNICATION NEWSLETTER
Volume 3	Fall-Winter 1993	Number 2

The Commission on Family Communication sponsored its biggest program yet, with a total of 14 panels at the SCA convention in Miami. Awards were presented to our Top Four panelists: Laura I. Guerrero, Lesa Stern, Michelle L. Johnson, Walid A. Afifi, Michael Payne, and Alan W. Aldrich for "Family Feuds: A Case for a Functional Typology of Communication Behaviors in Marital Conflict"; Kimberly A. Kennedy for "Family Communication of Social Support During Health-Related Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Hispanic and Anglo Populations"; Amy S. Ebesu and Cindy B. White for "It's Hard to Send People Away: Understanding How Adults and Children Interpret Divorce"; and Paul Yelsma for "Affective Orientation of Perpetrators, Victims and Functional Spouses."

Our executive committee would like to thank our outgoing officers, Secretary Anita Vangelisti, who received an award for her outstanding service, and also student representative Kathryn Greene. We welcome our new officers, Vice-President elect Doug Kelley, Secretary April Chatham-Carpenter, and student representative Chuck Grant.

We discussed several projects at our executive and business meetings, including a pedagogical handbook to be distributed by SCA. This handbook will include approaches to teaching family communication; anyone who has taught family communication from a specific approach and who is interested in writing a description should contact me at 513-556-4440, Department of Communication, M.L. 184, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221. We also discussed plans for recruiting new members this year. Spread the word about your involvement with the CFC to others! An ad hoc committee will be working on plans for a pre-convention conference for 1995's convention. Thanks for a great year!

Teresa Sabourin

Gail Whitchurch and Lynne Webb have organized a symposium on applied family communication research for the May or August, 1995, issue of the Journal of Applied Communication Research. Any manuscript is welcomed which demonstrates a clear applied communication focus on concrete, practical issues pertaining to communication in family units or various family subsystems. Manuscripts should be prepared following APA style and have all indicators of authorship deleted, except on the title page. Where possible, please include an e-mail address for each author. Send four (4) copies of the manuscript by October 10, 1994, to Julia T. Wood, Editor, JACR, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

For additional information, you may contact either symposium organizer: Gail Whitchurch at (317) 276-1155 or (317) 924-4954 OR Lynne Webb at (901) 676-2577 or (901) 676-2565. The Curriculum Committee for the Commission on Family Communication is presently compiling a file of recent syllabi for the Family Communication course. The intent is to establish an up-to-date file of syllabi that can be distributed to others, upon request. Those interested in submitting their syllabus should send it to Fran C. Dickson, Dept. of Human Communication Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80206. Phone: (303) 671-4331. E-Mail: FDICKSON@DUCAIR.

Kudos: Honors, Awards, and Publications

Leslie Baxter and Eric Simon wrote an article, "Relationship maintenance strategies and dialectical contradictions in personal relationships," in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10(2), pp. 225ff. Leslie Baxter also coauthored an article with Sally Widenmann, "Revealing and not revealing the status of romantic relationships to social networks," in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10(3), pp. 321ff.

Michael Beatty and Jean Dobos wrote an article, "Adult males' perceptions of confirmation and relational partner communication apprehension: Indirect effects of fathers on sons' partners," in Communication Quarterly, 41(1), pp. 66ff.

Carol Bruess and Judy Pearson wrote an article, "'Sweet pea' and 'pussy cat': An examination of idiom use and marital satisfaction over the life cycle," in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10(4), pp. 609ff.

Kathryn Dindia and Dan Canary wrote an article, "Definitions and theoretical perspectives on maintaining relationships," in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10(2), pp. 163ff. They both edited this special May, 1993, issue of JSPR on relational maintenance.

Steve Duck is a SAGE Publications series editor for a series of books on "Understanding Relationship Processes." Three 1993 books in this series are Individuals in Relationships, Learning about Relationships, and Social Context and Relationships. Several SCA members have contributed chapters to these volumes: Peter Andersen, Leslie Baxter, Chuck Berger, Marcia Dixson & Steve Duck, James Honeycutt, and Julia Wood.

Kristine Fitch wrote a chapter, "Culture, ideology, and interpersonal communication research," in Communication Yearbook 17 (1993).

James Honeycutt, Barbara Woods, and Karen Fontenot wrote an article, "The endorsement of communication conflict rules as a function of engagement, marriage and marital ideology," in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10(2), pp. 285ff.

Kevin Hutchinson and James Neuliep wrote an article, "The influence of parent and peer modeling on the development of communication apprehension in elementary school children," in Communication Quarterly, 41(1), pp. 16ff.

Cliff Notarius and Howard Markman have written a Putnam Publication book, entitled We Can Work It Out: Making Sense of Marital Conflict. It is available in popular bookstores.

Diane Prusank, Robert Duran, and Dena DeLillo wrote an article, "Interpersonal relationships in women's magazines: Dating and relating in the 1970s and 1980s," in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10(3), pp. 307ff.

Teresa Sabourin, Dominic Infante, and Jill Rudd wrote an article, "A comparison of violent, distressed but nonviolent, and nondistresed couples," in Human Communication Research, 20(2), pp. 245ff.

Laura Stafford and Cherie Bayer wrote a 1993 SAGE Publication book, entitled Interaction Between Parents and Children.

Anita Vangelisti wrote an article, "Communication in the family: The influence of time, relational protypes, and irrationality ," in Communication Monographs, 60(1), pp. 42ff.

NOTE: Any information on recent publications, awards, or other items of interest to the Commission on Family Communication should be sent to the Secretary for inclusion in our next newsletter by June 1, 1994.

CHAIR: Teresa C. Sabourin, Dept. of Communication, University of Cincinnati, ML 184, Cincinnati, OH 45221. O:(513)556-4440, H:(513)528-5438.

PREVIOUS CHAIR: Gail G. Whitchurch, Dept. of Communication and Theatre, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202. O:(317)278-1155, H:(317)924-4954. IKFW100@INDYCMS

VICE-CHAIR: Kathleen M. Galvin, School of Speech, Northwestern University, 206 A.M. Swift Hall, Evanston, IL 60208-2260. O:(708)491-5992.

VICE-CHAIR ELECT: Douglas L. Kelley, Dept. of Communication Studies, 4701 W. Thunderbird Rd., P.O. Box 37100, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100. O:(602)543-6641.

SECRETARY: April Chatham-Carpenter, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls,IA 50614-0357. O:(319)273-2217, H:(319)233-6465. CHATHAM@UNI.EDU

LIAISON COMMITTEE CHAIR: Robert D. Harrison, Dept. of Communication Arts, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC 20002. O:(202)651-5420.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR: Fran C. Dickson, Dept. of Human Communication Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208. O:(303)871-4331, H:(303)440-9167. FDICKSON@ DUCAIR

ARCHIVIST: John W. Monsma, Dept. of Communication Arts, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. O:(602)523-2512, H:(602)526-0805.

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Charles H. (Chuck) Grant, Dept. of Communication, University of South Florida; 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040, Tampa, FL 33620-7800. O:(813)974-3294, H:(813)971-8128, CGRANT@CISOI.CIS.USF.EDU

The Commission on Family Communication encourages innovative approaches to the study of communication in marriages and families, soliciting submission of completed papers or program proposals from members of all SCA sections and divisions. Theoretical, empirical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches are all welcome. Papers and proposals will be submitted to blind review. Papers must include a separate cover page containing authors name(s) and affiliation(s); student or debut papers should be so labeled in the upper right corner. Proposals must include: (1) title, (2) rationale, (3) names and affiliations of each participant, and (4) an abstract for each paper. Five copies of the paper or proposal must be postmarked by February 15, 1994 and sent to:

Kathleen Galvin
School of Speech
Northwestern University
206 A.M. Swift Hall
Evanston, IL 60208-2260

When possible, please include the bitnet address for each presenter.

REMINDER: Effective July 1, 1991, SCA has gone to a checkoff system on its membership forms. When your renewal notice comes due, you will be asked to specify the unit(s) with which you want to affiliate. All SCA commissions must have at least 100 members to retain commission status. In short, we need your continued support to remain a commission. Please be sure to check us off on your membership form, and ask colleagues and students interested in family communication to do the same.