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This mailing contains information on the 1999 PES Annual Conference, a copy of the conference program, a ballot for the Executive Board and COPA, and a dues notice.
 
 

PES 55th ANNUAL CONFERENCE: March 26-29, 1999
 
 

This year the PES Annual Meeting will be held March 26-29 in New Orleans. Our hotel is the Hotel Monteleone, on Royal Street in the heart of the French Quarter. The good and bad news is that The Hotel Monteleone has sold out for Friday and Saturday nights. Reservations may now be made at The Hotel Bienville (800) 535-7836 sister hotel to The Monteleone, 2 blocks away. Another alternative is by calling 800-695-2264, this is a main reservation line for all of New Orleans hotels, be sure to ask for something in the French Quarter to be close by. You may call the Hotel Monteleone for reservations at (800)535-9595 or (504)523-3341. Indicate our conference code # IPES when you book. February 24th is the last day to reserve a room at the conference rates. You may even be able to get rooms for a day or two before or after the conference at the conference rate. Single/Double rooms will cost $140 plus 11% tax and an additional $2.00 per room per day "hotel fee" that is a local requirement.
 
 

Responding to member concerns about the cost of luncheon's in recent years, we are trying an experiment this year. The lunch will be a lower cost New Orleans buffet. The food will be "New Orleans Fare," with a dash of carnival! To encourage graduate student participation, the Society will subsidize the graduate students by charging only half the regular rate. The charge will be $10 for graduate students and $20 for the rest of us. You can sign up in advance (on the enclosed registration form) or at the meeting.
 
 

Spencer Maxcy has agreed to coordinate the book display. You can reach him at smaxcy1@lsu.edu
 
 

A conference registration form is enclosed with this mailing.
 
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE --Randall Curren
 
 

As you peruse the program for next month's meetings, one of the things you will find is a number of symposia. Please note that the symposia on Buber, the Internet, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Spiritual Knowledge, will all follow a novel format. The papers (by Yiamouyiannis, Bingham, Li, Smeyers, Fishbeyn, Granger, Peters, and Zigler) will be available electronically together with the program and abstracts, as well as in hard copy at the registration desk, and will only be summarized in the sessions. This format leaves longer for response and discussion, and allows more informed discussion since the papers can be read in full prior to the session. I hope those of you who attend these will find this rewarding.
 
 

Please also note that the Aesthetics SIG Session on Friday evening will convene at a restaurant that is not part of the hotel. Please contact Lynda Stone (lstone@email.unc.edu) to make your reservation.
 
 

I'm looking forward to joining you all (that's "ya'll") in my home town, New Orleans (that's "N'awlins"), for an intellectual feast I hope you will long remember. Pass yoursefs by the Café du Monde for a café au lait and check out the muffelata sandwiches at the Central Grocery (tell them "Yes!" you want it with olive salad) while you're there. Laissez le bon temps roulette!
 
 
 
 

CONFERENCE ROOMS FOR GRADUATE STUDENT MEMBERS
 
 

PES will subsidize rooms for graduate students again this year. Any graduate student who is a current member of PES is eligible for a PES sponsored room. To reserve a room, send a note with your name, gender, the nights for which you want a room, a check (payable to PES) for ten dollars for each night you expect to use the room, address, phone number, and email address (if available). The students' room will be confirmed upon receipt of the check. The $10/night fee is refundable only if we are able to find another student to take the space.

Rooms are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis, so get your checks in early to assure a space. Rooms will be shared, four students to a room. We will make four rooms available on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights (accommodating up to 16 graduate students each night). If you have any questions about space availability contact Jennifer Rosenberger at Jenn@msu.edu or 517-355-9302.
 
 

THIRD CALL FOR 1998-1999 DUES
 
 

Included in this mailing is the dues form for 1998-99. A sheet is also enclosed, indicating what PES records show as your dues status. If you are paying dues, please make your check payable to: Philosophy of Education Society and return it in the enclosed envelope. Dues may now be paid by credit card. The Executive Board approved a $5.00 per transaction fee to underwrite the Society's costs for the credit card system.
 
 

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE--Debby Kerdeman
 
 

On behalf of this year's Membership Committee, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to all new members of PES and let you know about two activities that will be taking place at our upcoming conference in New Orleans.
 
 

First, please plan to attend the reception, scheduled for Friday evening (check your program for location). This is an opportunity for veterans of PES to meet newcomers and graduate students. The food will be great, the conversation lively. We look forward to seeing you there.
 
 

Second, each evening at dinnertime, members of the Membership Committee will congregate in the Registration area to meet people who would like to get together for dinner. If you're new to PES or don't have dinner plans, please join us. We'd love to get to know you over a meal. PES veterans are encouraged to include new members in your dinner gatherings.
 
 

This year's Membership Committee includes John Covaleskie, Jim Kaminsky, Dilafruz Williams, Iris Yob, and myself. Look for us at PES. We'll be wearing identifying badges.
 
 

See you in New Orleans!
 
 
 
 

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT -- Emily Robertson
 
 

The Nominating Committee has selected candidates for the Executive Board and for the Committee on Professional Affairs. Deanne Bogdan and Frank Margonis are the candidates for the Board; and Susan Laird and A.G. Rud are the candidates for COPA. Please return the attached ballot by March 15, 1999.
 
 

TAPES OF BROUDY=S LECTURES
 
 

We received the following information from Michael J. B. Jackson. AI was saddened to learn in the July Update of Professor Broudy=s death. And I thought I might mention to you, in case you know of anyone who is thinking of doing a retrospective on his career, that I have the transcripts of a series of three 75 minute lectures on Classical Realism which he delivered to a group of senior undergraduate pre-service teachers while he was the first Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland in the Fall term of 1975, immediately after his retirement from Illinois. He and I prepared them from the original tapes for publication by the Faculty of Education which, in the end, declined to see the project through on the grounds that neither he nor I was still a faculty member. Nothing was subsequently done with them and, as they stand, they are in (virtually) camera-ready form.
 
 

Actually, it is not perhaps quite fair to say that nothing was done with them. In fact, I and a few others have found themBparticularly the audiotapes, surprisinglyBremarkably successful in eliciting interest and discussion among pre-service students. Given that Classical Realists were even then fairly thin on the ground and may now be extinct, not to mention the use of amateur audiotapes in class seems a quite unpromising pedagogical approach, I have always found this interest a great tribute either to his style or to his ideas.
 
 

Anyway, in short, I would be happy to share this resource with anyone who is interested.@
 
 

For further information contact Michael J. B. Jackson at Suite 1103, 205 Cote-Ste Catherine, Outremont (Quebec) H2V 2A9.
 
 

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S NOTE -- Bob Floden
 
 

In the last three years the numbers attending the PES Annual meeting have almost doubled. (I'm hoping for a big crowd again this year. The combination of program and setting should be a big draw.) Membership is up, too, though not quite so dramatically. (Details at the Business Meeting in New Orleans). Much of the credit should go to the Program and Membership Committees, who have been working hard to bring in more people interested in philosophy of education. Unfortunately, the Society's finances continue to be somewhat out of alignment. We have profited from strong investment performance (thanks to my predecessor, Paul Wagner), but cash flow for our everyday business has been negative over the period. The Executive Board will consider some mix of cost cutting and increased revenue to maintain our financial health. (The best solution is to increase membership. Recruit a colleague today!)
 
 

We will try to get the abstracts of all papers (and the full text of some) up on our Yearbook web site again this year. Try checking it out soon. The PES Yearbook URL is http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/PES/ If all goes well, the abstracts will be up by then and papers will be added as received.
 
 

This is my last Update. I've taken pride in serving the Society. Our Annual Meeting remains my favorite conference of the year. When I relinquish my Exec-Sec duties, I'll be able to enjoy it even more! See you in New Orleans.