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FAMILY COMMUNICATION DIVISION NEWSLETTER |
Volume 7 |
Spring-Summer 1997 |
Number 1 |
Letter from the Chair
San Diego was great! The role of the Family Communication Division in San Diego was our biggest ever! Fifteen panels were programmed, all of which were well-attended. Special congratulations go to Elizabeth Graham, Sally Vogl-Bauer, Pamela Kalbfleisch, Rick Buerkel, and Joan George for writing the top four papers. Congratulations, too, to our new officers: Tom Socha (Vice-Chair Elect), Roberta Davilla (Curriculum Development Chair), Rhunette Diggs (Liaison Committee Chair), and Paul LeBlanc (Electronic Informant).
In the works for the Chicago Convention is a series of panel presentations on the "state of the art" in various aspects of our discipline. Cynthia Burggraf, this year's convention planner, is working on putting together one of these panels for the FCD. If you have suggestions for one or more people you would like to hear speak on this "state" of family communication, you might want to get in touch with her. Please note that the submission deadline for SCA is February 1st, which is a change from the usual 15th deadline.
Finally, remember that nominations for the Bernard J. Brommel Award are due by April 1,1997. Send your nomination (or self-nomination) to Kathleen Galvin.
See you all in the Windy City!
NANCY BUERKEL- ROTHFUSS
Call for Papers: SCA 1997 Convention
The Family Communication Division encourages innovative approaches to the study of communication in marriages and families, soliciting submission of completed papers or proposals from members of all SCA sections and divisions. Theoretical, empirical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches are all welcome. Papers and proposals will receive a blind review. Papers should be typed, double-spaced, article-length, written to conceal authorship and institutional affiliation, and include a fifty-to-seventy-five-word abstract. Papers must include a separate cover page containing author's name(s) and affiliation(s); student or debut papers should be labeled in the upper right comer. Proposals for programs should use the SCA form for submitting programs, which includes (1) a program title, (2) a rationale for the program, (3) abstracts of papers or materials to be presented, (4) name, address, and phone/e-mail address for each participant, and (5) a statement of commitment that all participants will attend the conference if the proposal is accepted. Five copies of all papers and program proposals must be received by February 1, 1997. Send to: Cynthia Burggraf, Dept. of Communication, College of Wooster, 203 Wishart Hall, Wooster OH 44691; (330) 263-2058 (0); e-mail: cburggraf@acs.wooster.edu.
New FCD Officers
Congratulations to the newly elected officers on the FCD Executive Committee:
- Tom Socha, Vice-Chair Elect
- Roberta Davilla, Curriculum Development Committee Chair
- Rhunette Diggs, Liaison Committee Chair
- Paul LeBlanc, Electronic Informant
FCD Executive Committee
CHAIR Nancy Buerkel-Rothfuss, Speech Comm. and Drama Dept., Central Michigan Univ., 333 Moore Hall, Mt. P1easant, MI 48859, O:(517)774-7274; e-mail: 34Itxf2@cmuvm.
PAST CHAIR Douglas L. Kelley, Dept. of Comm. Studies, 4701 West Thunderbird Rd., PO 37100, Arizona State Univ. West, Phoenix AZ 85069-7100, O:(602) 543-6641.
VICE-CHAIR Cynthia Burggraf, Dept. of Comm., College of Wooster, 203 Wishart Hall, Wooster OH 44691, O:(330) 263-2058; e-mail: cburggraf@acs.wooster.edu.
VICE-CHAIR ELECT Tom Socha, Dept. of Comm. and Theatre, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk VA 23529, O:(757)683-3833; e-mail: qs100f@oduvm.cc.odu.edu.
SECRETARY Sherilyn Marrow Ferguson, Dept. of Speech Comm., Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley CO 80639, O:(970)351-2738; e-mail: srfergu@bentley.univnorthco.edu.
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE CHAIR Roberta Davilla, Dept. of Comm. Studies, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls IA 50614, O:(319) 273-2217; e-mail: davilla@cobra.uni.edu.
LIAISON COMMITTEE CHAIR Rhunette Diggs, Dept. of Comm., Univ. of Louisville, 310 Strickler Hall Louisville KY 40292, O:(502)852-6976, e-mail: rdiggs@osu.edu.
ARCHIVIST John W. Monsma, School of Comm., Northern Arizona Univ., Box 5619, Flagstaff AZ 86011-5619, O:(602)523-2512; e-mail: monsma@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu.
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE (and Electronic Informant) H. Paul LeBlanc III, Dept. of Speech Comm., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62966-1513, E-mail: pleblanc@siu.edu.
Tell Us Good News. . .
Any publications, awards, or kudos out there? We'd like to share your professional achievements with our FCD membership. Send the good things that are happening to you to: Sherilyn Ferguson, fax (970) 351-2983, or e-mail: srfergu@bentley.univnorthco.edu
Call for Nominations for 1997
Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship
or Distinguished Service in Family Communication.
Selection criteria
FOR THE OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD: The Outstanding Scholarship Award is intended to recognize published research and creative scholarship in Family Communication. Scholarship is broadly defined to include the spectrum of scholarly work expressed by articles published in any SCA journal or by SCA members publishing in a major research journal of another association or organization, or in book or monograph form.
The scholarship award is given to authors of scholarship published during the previous six-year period. The date of copyright of the published material will serve as the date of publication.
FOR THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD: A Distinguished Service Award can be given in lieu of the Scholarship Award no more than once in every five years. The service award is intended to recognize an SCA member who has made over a period of years outstanding contribution to the leadership and promotion of the area of family communication. The award will only be given to current SCA members.
Nomination procedures
Nominations must be sent to the selection committee chairperson. Nominations must be sent by someone well acquainted with the scholarship or service. Self-nominations are encouraged.
Nominations for the OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD should consist of: a cover letter specifying the scholarship, i.e., publisher or journal name(s) and the publication date(s); a detailed rationale for why the scholarship should receive the award (see above); and three copies or examples of the scholarship. These will not be returned.
Nominations for the DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD should consist of: a cover letter recommending the person for the award (the letter should be limited to two pages and should provide a detailed rationale for why the person should receive the award); the vita of the person being nominated; and up to three letters supporting the nomination.
Selection committee
The 1997 selection committee is chaired by Kathleen Galvin (Northwestern University), with members Douglas Kelley (Arizona State University West) and Nancy Buerkel-Rothfuss (Central Michigan University).
Materials should be sent to: Kathleen M. Galvin, Associate Dean, School of Speech; 1905 Sheridan Road, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208-2260.
Due date: April 1, 1997.
1996 SCA Family Comm. Division Business Meeting Highlights
1996 SCA Family Communication Division sponsored 15 panels.
1997 SCA FCD has earlier paper submission deadline of February 1.
FCD is first SCA division to get home page on the Web--also a searchable Web page base for research interests.
Copies of the 1995 Family Communication Division pre-conference paper proceedings now available. For your copy, send a check for ten dollars, payable to Vince Bloom, to: Vince Bloom, Dept. of Speech Communication, California State University-Fresno, Fresno CA 93740.
Submissions for the Bernard J. Brommel Award due April 1, 1997, sent to Kathleen Galvin
Poster Sessions vs. Panels?
A lively discussion occurred at the General Business Meeting on the advantages and disadvantages of convention poster sessions versus panels. Various comments heard were the ethics involved, problems associated with tenure/promotion, proper training for poster sessions, criteria for perceived value of poster sessions, etc. Cynthia Burggraf (e-mail address: cburggraf@acs.wooster.edu) welcomes hearing your comments on this controversy.
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