Texas Journal of Microscopy - Texas Society for Microscopy

President’s Message
I
wish to thank the Executive Council and the members
of the Texas Society for Microscopy for support and
advice during the past year. The leadership of Ernest
Couch, President-Elect, and Pam Neill, Program-Chair,
has resulted in our spring meeting to be held on another
college campus in many years. A few years ago, Texas
Woman’s University was the host of a TSM spring meeting.
This time, Texas Christian University is providing the
impressive Alumni Center for our spring 2007 meeting.
In order to encourage greater student participation, the
members present at the fall 2006 TSM meeting in Allen
voted to invite the TCU students to register for attending
the spring meeting sessions without paying a registration
fee. As further inducements for attending and presenting
at our meetings, the number and amounts of awards for
the “Howard J. Arnott” Best Student Competition have
been increases. Tina and Amanda Halupnik prepared
a flier to advertise this meeting and mailed the flier to
our membership. Amanda Halupnik has also designed
a new certificate for student presentation winners. Jodi
Roepsch has continued to assist the Program-Chair and
Webmaster, for which we are deeply thankful.
The dedicated supervision of our TSM website by
Becky Holdford has resulted in recruitment of a diversity
of biologists, materials engineers and bioengineers
from academia and industry to join our Society and
present at the meetings.
Camelia Maier, Editor of the Texas Journal of Microscopy
has had a record number of requests for advertisements.
With the support of the Executive Council
she has increased the prices of advertisements in order
to be able to increase the size of the journal. The spring
issue of the journal, Vol. 38( ), will be the largest issue
ever published! We greatly appreciate the wonderful
support provided by our corporate members to TSM
and its publication. Our editor has worked diligently to
make arrangements for the Texas Journal of Microscopy
to be listed in databases. This will substantially
enhance the value of publishing in the Texas Journal of
Microscopy.
We will have a change of officers at this spring meeting.
I will become the Past-President with Ernest Couch
the President, Ann Ellis the Treasurer and Phoebe Doss
the Program Chair. Nabarun Ghosh will become President-Elect
with Michael Pendleton the Secretary-Elect
and Sandra Westmoreland the Program Chair-Elect.
I greatly appreciate the very capable contributions of
Bob Droleskey, Interim-Treasurer, and Pam Neill, Program
Chairman. Tina Halupnik will continue as Secretary.
With the approval of the By-Laws revisions, our
officer-elects will have voting privileges on the Executive
Council.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide leadership in
the Texas Society for Microscopy. May the society continue
to thrive!
Joanne (Judi) Tontz Ellzey
2006-2007 President,
Texas Society for Microscopy
Call For Papers
Manuscripts are needed for the next edition of the Texas Journal of Microscopy. Please send your work as short
communications, full articles or review articles in biological sciences, material sciences or education to:
Camelia G.-A. Maier, TSM Journal Editor
Department of Biology, TWU, Denton, Texas 76204-5799
(940) 898-2358, cmaier@twu.edu
Manuscript deadline is July 15, 2007
Tex. J. Micros. 38: , 2007
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