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The theme chosen by Judith Myers Walls for the 1998 Annual Conference was “Families in a Global Context: Media, Environment, and Peace.” It was held November 14-17 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee, WI. Jacqueline Haessly of Peacemaking Associates was the local arrangements chair. Attendance was approximately 1,100.
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Plenary speakers included Charlotte Cole and Anna Guenina of the Children’s TV Workshop, New York, and Moscow, Russia, who spoke on “A World of Sesame Street Families”; Barbara Adams, UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, New York, who discussed “Sustainable Development: A Peace Plan for the21st Century”; Atie Dyregrov, Center for Crisis Psychology, Bergen, Norway, who spoke on “The Worst Memory In My Head: Families and War”; and John Red Horse, University of Minnesota—Duluth, who spoke on “Eyes in the World: The Relationship Between Governments and Families.”
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President Greer Litton Fox‘s Presidential Address was titled “Families in the Media: Thoughts on the Public Scrutiny of Private Lives.”
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There were four Research Updates for Practitioners, and Vern Bengston delivered the Burgess Award Address: “Families and Aging at the Turn of the Century.”
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Read the conference program
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Judith Myers-Walls
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Jacqueline Haessly
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Greer Litton Fox
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Vern Bengston
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Shelly McDermid at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Shirley Zimmerman at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Rocky Ralebipi at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Randy Day and Ben Karney at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Norma Burgess and James Ponzetti at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Pam Choice and Gay Stone at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Mary Jo Czaplewski and Judith Myers Walls at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Lane Powell at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Margaret Slingerland, Joan Adous and Ramona MAritz-Boden at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Karen DeBord at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Judith Myers-Walls and Mary Jo Czaplewski at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Karen DeBard at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Joan Comeau and Howard Barnes at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Greer Litton Fox at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Joan Aldous becomes a NCFR Fellow
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Dawn Cassidy and Chloe Merrill at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Greer Fox and Bill Doherty at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Dan Kmitts at the Annual Conference, 1998
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David Klein at the Annual Conference, 1998
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1998 Annual Conference
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1998 Annual Conference
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Bob Keim and Mary Jo Czaplewski at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Bert Adams, Catherine Chilman and Paul Glich at the Annual Conference, 1998
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Dyregrow and Tomlinson at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Atle Dyregrow at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Anna Guenina at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Alan Booth at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Award Winners at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Panelists at the 1998 Annual Conference
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James Ponzetti and Anne Stanberry at the 1998 Annual Conference
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Gerhard Neubeck and Pauline Boss at the 1998 Annual Conference
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NCFR Executive Director Search Committee at 1998 Annual Conference
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1998 Annual Conference
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1998 NCFR student generously donating blood to the Red Cross during the conference
Categories: Annual Conference
People: Judith Myers-Walls, Jacqueline Haessly, Greer Litton Fox, Vern Bengston
A colleague had told me when I was nominated for . program chair that, along with editing a journal, being program chair was one of the most powerful ways to influence the professional disourse. I took the responsibility seriously and used the opportunity to raise awareness of some of my strongest professional passions–internationalism, mass media and families, and peace. The session by Sesame Street was fascinating and very well received, and so was the address by Atle Dyregrov. The U.N. speaker was a substitute, so we didn’t have much chance to clarify the focus. I also tried the idea of international games for conference participants to play during the conference. Mary Jo was a wonderful help!