Journals and Publications in 1994–95
A new Editor for Family Relations, effective beginning with the January 1997 issue and ending with the October 2000 issue, was Jeffrey Dwyer, professor and director of the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. The 1995 volume of the Vision 2010 series was Families and Violence. Also, Relationship Violence and Parents, Children and Changing Families was printed that year. The Journal of Family History and Inventory of Marriage and the Family were sold that year. The latter was sold to the National Information Service Corporation of Baltimore, MD.
Membership and CFLE in 1994–95
There was a 3% increase in members over the year, but nonrenewals kept member numbers rather stable, rather than rising. Read the March 1995 Newsletter V40 N1 Read the June 1995 Newsletter V40 N2 Read the September 1995 Newsletter V40 N3 Read the December 1995 Newsletter V40 N4 In September 1994, a Family Life Education Teacher’s Kit was published. In March 1995, NCFR’s Certification Director presented a CFLE workshop to U.S. Air Force family support personnel in Germany and England. Thirty-six applications were submitted as a result. In April 1995, the NCFR Board approved development of Academic Program Review Committee to develop a review process for […]
Awards in 1994–95
The Student Award was given to Deborah Lewis Fravel of the University of Minnesota. Gary Lee of the University of Florida received the Osborne Award. Meghan Raymond of the University of Arizona received the Jesse Bernard Research Proposal Award. Karen Pyke, University of Southern California, received the Jesse Bernard Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Award. No Burgess award was given this year. The Reuben Hill Award was given to Mollie C. McLoyd, Toby Epstein Jayaratne, Rosario Ceballa, and Julio Borques, of the University of Michigan, for their 1994 article in the journal Child Development, “Unemployment and Work Interruption Among African-American Single Mothers: […]
Structure and Governance in 1994–95
As NCFR’s assets and publication sales increased, so did its equities and financial policies. NCFR asset portfolios grew to $569,988; thus, new policies were enacted. An Electronic Technology Task Force worked on the implementation of an electronic home page for NCFR’s programs and services. Several task forces were assigned to review NCFR’s governance policies for the Board and Sections. In October 1995 a new policy manual was approved that included policies for the Annual Conference, Association of Councils, the Board, Certification, Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature, Membership, Publications, Public Policy, Sections, and staff/headquarters management. All Board members were to have […]
1995 Conference: Families: Honoring Our Past, Creating Our Future
The 1995 Annual Conference was held November 14–19 at the Portland (OR) Hilton Hotel. The theme was “Families: Honoring Our Past, Creating Our Future.” Program Vice President was Kay Pasley. Constance Ahrons was a keynote speaker, discussing, “Family Diversity in the 21st Century.” The number of attendees was 1,239—up by 100 from the previous year. Martha Calderwood, who had been managing the video exhibit for years, announced her retirement. The Presidential Address given by Alexis Walker—“Couples Watching Television: Gender, Power, and the Remote Control”—was so popular that it was printed in the Journal of Marriage and the Family and covered by many national news networks. It was well […]
Leadership in 1994–95
President Alexis Joan Walker was a long-time leader of NCFR. In addition to being President, she also served as Editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family, Program Vice President, and Feminism and Family Studies founding Section Chair. She received her PhD. from Pennsylvania State University in 1979, in Human Development and Family Studies. She began her teaching career at the University of Oklahoma, where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. In 1986, her career took her to Oregon State University, where she was a professor, Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, and Co-Director of […]
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June 7, 2016 at 3:19 pm
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June 7, 2016 at 2:45 pm
I wondered if I could use this for a project in my Chicano Studies class at ASU. The project will be put up in an exhibit display and possibly travel around to schools. Please let me know.
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November 12, 2013 at 10:20 am
Also worth a mention: John Gottman gave a Research Update for Practitioners on his marital research, which was well attended.
By the way, the name is “Celine Le Bourdais.”
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August 21, 2013 at 11:47 am
Dennis,
Enjoyed the story. And, what a lucky break for me that you did make this decision. Hope all is well.
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August 15, 2013 at 9:19 am
The 1980 Portland Conference was 12 days after Mt. St. Helen had erupted. There was lots of ash around all over, and I still have a bottle of that ash. That was the year we had an afternoon trip to near Mt. St. Helen’s planned, and still took the trip. On the way up the bus stopped at Crown Point which was typically one of the windiest spots around. The wind was so strong that it blew the name badges out of the plastic holders. It also blew Ruth Jewson, Helen Hartness, and me on top of each other (which was scary for us with Ruth, but she wasn’t hurt). The bus also stopped at Multnomah Falls which was stunning. That evening I played for Bert Adams to sing songs from some musicals. He did a magnificent job.
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August 13, 2013 at 1:24 pm
One of my first NCFR conferences was in Portland and I was still a doctoral student then, and a member of the Executive Committee of NCFR as the student rep. It was at that meeting that I was really thinking about my career and where I should go with it. I was a student in family sociology and my chair was Lee Axelson, then the President of NCFR. He wanted me to take a sociology position. But others suggested that my interests would be better served in Child and Family Development (then in Home Ec) where relationship issues would be easier to study. I did not know which way to go.
At that meeting we took a bus trip to the coast of Oregon for a “salmon bake” on the beach. I sat on the bus between Eleanor Luckey and Ruth Jewson. All the way over and back we talked about career directions and those two people who I respected so much listened to me, and gave me their counsel, experience, and wisdom. Eleanor noted that she had been trained in psychology but chose to go into child and family development since there were more peers there who could help her frame her ideas and help them mature. Ruth saw the emerging scholarship in CFD and the quality of research coming out. The result of that was my turning down sociology jobs and taking the CFD position at UNC-Greensboro, where John Scanzoni and others later joined me a a great department. And my first students there were Jay Mancini and Gary Bowen, who have become successful scholars in their own right.
So the memories of that NCFR in Portland so many years ago remind me of how important it is to continue to foster opportunities for young student scholars to meet with senior people who can give them other ideas, and perhaps bring perspectives that their own programs may not be able to offer. Keep mixing us all up, and recognize the key role you play in the stirring of the creative pots in this vital area of family research and practice.
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July 12, 2013 at 3:49 pm
These changes have been incorporated. Thanks for your feedback.
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July 11, 2013 at 8:52 am
Edits–
1. Please add that he was a professor for nearly 30 years
2. Also change “:marriage and family therapist” to “marriage and family researcher and therapist”
3. Prepare and Enrich should be all CAPS—PREPARE ENRICH
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July 8, 2013 at 4:16 pm
That terminology has been corrected. Thanks Marilyn.
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July 8, 2013 at 4:13 pm
In 1988-89, I was Association of Councils president-elect. In 1989-90, I was president. There was no vice president. Other officers were program chair, secretary/treasurer, and past president. Both the president elect and the president served on the NCFR Board.
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