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NEWSLETTER The annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modem Language Association was held at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson, Arizona, on October 20 and 21, 1972. Serving as joint hosts for this meeting were the University of Arizona and Prescott College. The annual business breakfast on October 21 was called to order shortly before 8:00 a.m. in the Pioneer Hotel's Terrace Ballroom by the president pro tern, of the RMMLA, Professor A. Wilber Stevens. Professor Stevens announced that the executive board of die association had tentatively accepted the invitation of the University of Texas at El Paso to act as host institution for the 1974 meeting of the association. New Mexico State University will act conjointly with UTEP in some capacities as host, although all sessions of the meeting will take place in El Paso-Juarez. The invitation was approved by the membership present at the business breakfast and formally accepted. Professor Dolores Brown then read an auditor's report approving the financial structure of tiie association, together with a statement clarifying policies concerning the presentation of papers at subsequent meetings. This statement, which will be included in future copies of tiie "Call for Papers" flyer sent to the membership, was as follows: "All readers of papers at the annual meeting must be members in good standing of tiie RMMLA. No member may read more than one paper at any meeting, nor may he serve as chairman of more than one section. No member may submit the same paper for simultaneous consideration in more than one section." Other business at the meeting centered upon two suggestions by the membership: the first, a proposal to move the time of the annual meeting from fall to spring was overwhelmingly defeated, only nine votes being cast in its favor; the second, a proposal to expand the time of the annual meeting to two full days was passed and referred to a mail ballot of the membership at large. The highlight of the breakfast meeting was an address by William David Schaefer, Executive Secretary of tiie Modem Language Association of America, concerning the relationship between the national MLA and its regional affiliates. Professor Schaefer's address is printed elsewhere in this issue of tiie Bulletin. A vote of thanks to Professor Dolores Brown, Chairman of the Committee on Local Arrangements for the 1972 meeting, was proposed and passed. And finally, a plea by Professor Amo Preller that the mailing and membership fists be checked for accuracy was made to the executive secre154 Newsletter155 tary. The meeting was then adjourned in time for the membership to attend the 9:00 section meetings. « « « The executive secretary is indeed concerned about the many inaccuracies in our present mailing lists. The Secretariat has already sent to all our members of record a request for any changes or revisions they may wish made in our lists. May we again ask that our members, even those whose own listings are correct, inform us of any inaccurades whatever in our records .« « « The 1974 annual meeting will be held in El Paso, but many of us are thinking more immediately about the 1973 meeting, to be held on October 12 and 13 in Laramie, Wyoming, at the invitation of the University of Wyoming . The RMMLA is happy to welcome the Rocky Mountain Dialect Society, which will meet conjointly with us, to this meeting. The RMADS invites papers that will be of interest not only to ADS members, but also to RMMLA members. A general theme for papers dealing with literary use of dialect has been suggested, but papers dealing with other topics, such as social dialects, dialect theory, names in hterature, usage, and so on will also be considered. Papers should be limited to fifteen minutes in length. Those wishing to submit papers should send three copies of an abstrad (no more than 250 words) before March 31, 1973, to Professor Thomas L. Clark, Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89154. The Classical and Medieval Literature Section of the RMMLA has asked that the following program amplification be included in the Newsletter : Please send capsule proposals for projeded papers dther to Professor Herman VanBetten, University of Nevada...

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