AMERICAN CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACADEMY & HALL OF FAME Please fill out & return to “Institor, ACWPAcademy, 9246 N. 70th Street, Milwaukee, WI, $3223." NOMINATING BALLOT. You may propose up to three different names, including your own, These will be entered on a mastcr ballot to be returned to you for your December 21, 1989 vote (within Report #2 to Members). ‘These names will be listed for your vote showing the number of placements within categories 1. 2, & 3. Confi- denally of the nominating process will be maintained by the Institor. (At any time, “Board members may examine all the files of the Academy maintained by the Institor.) I nominate these members for election to the Board of Governors 1990-92: th 2 8: Academy Bylaws now state that the current Board of Governors will serve until June 20, 1990. On June 21, 1990, the Board to be elected will be installed 1o serve a two-year term ~ 6, 21. 90 to 6. 20. 92, - with the next lection to be held at the end of 1991, for installation of a new Board on 6. 21.92, to serve until 6. 20. 94, with succeeding two-year terms. Board members may serve more than one term, A new Board, in an organization meeting, appoints its own officers. FINANCES. The sole funds to date in the Academy account (unexpended) are from the initial $10, "dues" assessed all Charter Members. Our Bylaws state that in addition to members’ fees, funds may be generated from: Donations - Sales of Tiems - Meeting & Seminars - and Licensing Agreements. In the Enrollment Flyer, it was reported that two retail products were seeking to use the ‘Academy logo in promotion, but the first, a publisher, lost his financing, and the second, a software programmer, has yet to resolve his pricing, so the only “license” so faris the American Crossword Federation's offer to make 2 donation to the Academy for each subscription from a member. There is no doubt that the Academy endorsement in time will prove to be a valuable marketing device for a variety of products and uses, but until then, the Academy will have 0 be self-supporting. From carly in 1986, when the original Hall of Fame ‘Academy concept was first proposed-except for the Founding Board of Governors sharing the costs of two meetings in New York in 1988~all expenses up to the prescat time have been bome by Institor. Bylaws state that “No part of the net eamings of (the. Academy) shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable 1, a private individual, but the Academy is authorized to provide reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of | ‘corporate purposes... incidental to the Academy's pur- poses.”” The question is, what, if any, shall be the Acad- ‘emy’s “dues” structure? Please let us have your opinions for the guidance of the next Board. Please answer: believe the Academy’s dues should be __none, $___per year, or $__paid in advance for each two-year period, 90-92, 92-94, 94-96, and on, HALL OF FAME SITE. (And type of exhibit.) Your sig. boards can be mounted into an interesting display. It is suggested that a HoF Committee address itself to obtaining facsimile sig. boards for those eight members of the Hall of Fame. HoF Committee Chair, please write Institor re action to date on asite, (Institor has sent a board “Fellow, Hall of Fame - December 15, 1988,"" to Mery Griffin's office for his signature, and will follow on thet, until itis in hand.) PRESS CLUB MEMBERSHIP. Least expensive? Ider yourself 2s a member of the Academy--write: MILWAUKEE. PRESS CLUB to join as sn Out-of-Town member, with a check for $40.00 for fist yoar's dues. Mail to: 152 W. Wisconsin ‘Ave., Suite 5D1, Milwaukee, WI 53203, This entitles you to re- Ciprocal club privileges at: USA - Albuquerque Press Club; Press Club of Dallas; Denver Press Club; Deiroit Press Ciub; Fort Worth Headliners Clubs Press Club of Grand Rapids; Honolulu Press Club; Indianapolis ress Club: Las Vegas Press Club; Greater Los Angeles Press Club; Thc National Press Club, Washington, DC; Minnesota Press Club, Minneapolis, MN; Omaha Press Club; Pen & Pencil Club, Philadelphia, PA: Phoenix Press Club; Piusburgh Press Club; Reno Press Club; Press Club of San Francisco; Press Club of St. Louis; Tulsa Press Club. (Overseas - The National Press Club, Canberra, ACT; Interna tional Press Club, The Hague; Quill Club, Harare, Zimbabwe; Foreign Correspondent's Club, Hong Kong; National Press Club, Manila, Philippines; Press Club of India, New Dehli, Ind National Press Club, Ottawa, Oniario, Canada; Associazione Stampa Estera, Rome, ialy; The Journalist's Club, Sydney, NSW; Nippon Kisha Club, Tokyo; Toronio Press Club, Toronto, ‘Ontario, Canada.Only five editors expressed aneed for more puzzles. ‘Write: D.J. DeChristopher, Dell-Champion, New ‘York, for specs on “innovative variants." ‘Write: Douglas & Janis Heller, Magazine Editorial Services, #300, 7002 West Butler Pike, Ambler, PA 19002, for specs on “all types.” Send: 21 x 21s with "Innovative themes, free of unusual words & Crosswordese," to Stanley Newman. ACF, P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762, (Sudy CROSSWORDER'S OWN NEWSLETTER.) CROSSWORD MARKETS Send: 15 x 15s - 23 x 23s “American (not cryptic) crosswords. No two-leter words; minimal cross- ‘wordese; difficulty must come from cleverness, not obscurity.” 10 Mel Rosen, 11718 Nicklaus Circle, Tampa, FL 33624. Send: "Playful, imaginative, well-constructed eross- ‘words of the highest quality," to Will Shoriz, GAMES magazine. 810 Seventh Avenue, New ‘York, NY 10019. (Swdy GAMES magazine.) MEMBER ACTIVITY. Committees will be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses. (32 members have already ‘expressed an interest in helping with committee work.) If you want your name added 0 that list, pleasc sign on. I would like to work on the committee dealing with COMMENTS - Signature