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Eta Sigma Phi atClassical ConferencesEta Sigma Phi continues to seek opportunitiesto maintain information tablesat classical conferences. Most recentlythe organization had tables at the 2007meeting of the Classical Association ofthe Middle West and South in Cincinnati,Ohio, and at the 2007 Summer Institute ofthe American Classical League in Nashville,Tennessee. Many thanks to memberswho volunteered their time to work thesetables, and, especially, to Megale GrammateusElizabeth Torrenson and to LyndyDanvers, both of Zeta Beta at TempleUniversity, who helped at ACL 2007.The national officers are planning torepresent Eta Sigma Phi at the 2008 meetingsof the American Philological Associationand the Archaeological Institute ofAmerican in Chicago in January. If youplan to attend these meetings please stopby the Eta Sigma Phi table in the BookDisplay area to meet the officers and getan Eta Sigma Phi pen.If your chapter would like to representEta Sigma Phi at a local or regional classicalorganization, please contact the ExecutiveSecretary at toms@monm.edu. Somefinancial support to attend these meetingsis available.How Can NationalOfficers and theExecutive SecretaryHelp Your Chapter?Please do not hesitate to contact thenational officers for advice and help. Thefour officers are all very active in their localchapters and are an excellent resource forpromotional ideas and activities.The Executive Secretary can provideassist local chapters in a variety of ways. Inparticular, this office can provide, free-ofchargeprint copies of the Eta Sigma Phiconstitution, the song for Eta Sigma Phi,“Why Study Latin?” brochures, etc. Pleasecontact the Executive Secretary at toms@monm.edu for further information.Report of the Chair of the Boardof Trustees, 2007The Board of Trustees met during the 2007 national convention inPhiladelphia and conducted its usual business, reviewing outreach projectsof chapters, considering the health of the organization, and assuring thatcommittee members who oversee contests and scholarships are in place.It was agreed that the Executive Secretary will publish names and terms ofall committee members along with the names and terms of members of theBoard of Trustees in issues of the NUNTIUS.The term of one Board member, Martha A. Davis, will expire this year. If it isthe will of the assembled delegates, Dr. Davis would agree to accept anotherterm on the Board of Trustees.The major topic of discussion this year is the perceived necessity to raisethe dues of this organization, bringing them into line with those of similarhonorary societies.There are several reasons to do this. We would like to offer an additionalsummer scholarship that would be dedicated to archaeology. We would liketo strengthen an endowment for that scholarship and the ones currentlyoffered. We have embarked on a policy of subsidizing expenses of ournational officers and other representatives to the annual meetings of theAmerican Philological Association, the regional Classics associations, theAmerican Classical League, and other associations where Classics is thefocus. We believe this presence of our representatives is an appropriateadvertisement of the excellence of the Society, and that it has brought usrecognition in many forms, especially in petitions for new chapters andreactivation of dormant ones. Any additional revenues received wouldstabilize the relationship between our income and expenditures.Dr. Davis also suggested that raising the currently expected forty-five dollarregistration fees for conventions will help match increases of expense causedby inflation and will prevent undue drain on budgets of host chapters, whichin turn necessitates the subsidizing of the hosts by the national society.These issues will be placed before the general assembly.Respectfully submitted,Martha A. Davis, ChairBoard of Trustees37