Annual Report (2001)
ARLIS/Ohio Valley Chapter

Submitted by:
Peggy Runge, Outgoing Chair
prunge@cincyart.org
Ph. 513-639-2977
Fax 513-639-2981

2001 Chapter Officers

Peggy Runge, Chair (Cincinnati Art Museum) 
Stephen Zietz, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (Cleveland Public Library)
Jim Viskochil, Secretary/Treasurer, Jan.-Aug. (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Lori Thorrat, Acting Secretary/Treasurer, Aug.-Dec. (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Mona Chapin, Editor COLLAGE Newsletter (Cincinnati Art Museum)

2002 Chapter Officers (Projected)
Stephen Zietz, Chair (Cleveland Public Library)
Pamela Eyerdam, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (Cleveland State University)
Lori Thorrat, Secretary-Treasurer (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Mona Chapin, Editor, COLLAGE Newsletter (Cincinnati Art Museum)

Chapter Meetings

The Ohio Valley Chapter held a spring and a fall meeting in 2001. The spring meeting was a joint one with the Great Lakes VRA Chapter on May 11^th at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The day included tours of the MU slide library, art and architecture library, architecture school, and museum. A total of twenty-eight people attended. The fall meeting was held on October 5^th at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, with the option of staying an added day to attend a symposium on Michelangelo held at the Museum. Nine members attended the afternoon business meeting.

Activities

During 2001, two issues (spring and fall) of the chapter newsletter, COLLAGE, were published. The chapter website was heavily revised and moved to a new internet address. At the end of the year a referendum was put to the membership for the Chapter to pay the current base rate (now $65.00) toward ARLIS/NA membership fees for those elected officers who would otherwise pay out-of-pocket. The outcome of this vote is not yet known. A contribution of $500.00 was made to the 2002 ARLIS/NA conference in St. Louis in honor of ARLIS/OV’s 25^th anniversary.

Membership

There were 38 new and renewing members in 2001.

Treasurer's report

Income                                          570.00
Expenditures                                 538.42
Balance (Dec. 31, 2001)           $1563.08

Other comments

The year 2001 marks the 25^th anniversary of the ARLIS/Ohio Valley Chapter. The Chapter began its existence in 1976 as ARLIS/Ohio. Upon the dissolution of the Allegheny Chapter of ARLIS/NA in 1984, ARLIS/Ohio expanded its boundaries to include Western Pennsylvania. In 1996 when the ARLIS/Kentucky-Tennessee-West Virginia Chapter disbanded, Kentucky and West Virginia merged with ARLIS/Ohio, and the Chapter was renamed ARLIS/Ohio Valley.