Annual Report (2002)
Delaware Valley Chapter,  ARLIS/NA

Submitted January 30, 2003 by:

Mary Louise Castaldi
President ARLIS/DVC
mcastaldi@uarts.edu
215-717-6283
215-717-6287 (fax) 

LEADERSHIP UPDATE  (Officers for 2003)

President: Nancy Thorne (University of Pennsylvania) nthorne@pobox.upenn.edu

Vice-President/President-Elect: Ann Gardner (Neumann College) gardnera@neumann.edu  

Secretary/Treasurer: Ed Deegan (University of Pennsylvania) edeegan@pobox.upenn.edu

Past-President: Mary Louise Castaldi (University of the Arts) mcastaldi@uarts.edu

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

Judy Donovan received the Chapter’s Marietta Bushnell Boyer Travel Award, which she used to attend the 2002 ARLIS/NA Conference.

The Delaware Valley Chapter donated 2 baskets to the Silent Auction at the St. Louis 2002 national conference. Lilah Mittelstaedt, who assembled the baskets, reported that they were well received, auctioning for $75 and $80.

The Chapter’s Spring meeting was held on May 9, 2002 at the home of Ann Gardner in Wallingford, PA, with 11 members attending. At the meeting a Nominating Committee (Lilah Mittelstaedt, Kelley Weaver, and Kraig Binkowski) was appointed and charged with recruiting candidates for Vice President/President Elect in 2003. There was discussion about outreach and recruitment of new members with a particular focus on contacting students and interested faculty members at Drexel University’s College of Information Science & Technology. After the meeting, members were conducted on a tour of nearby Rose Valley, PA, the principal Arts & Crafts community in the Delaware Valley, which was organized at the turn of the 20^th century by architect William L. Price. Our guide was Paula Healy, lifelong resident of Rose Valley and a representative of the Rose Valley Historical Association, who conveyed a good sense of the everyday life of the community and of Price’s lasting influence.

During the summer, the Nominating Committee selected Ann Gardner as a candidate for VP/P-E in 2003 (to serve as President in 2004). 

Fifteen Chapter members attended the Fall Business meeting on October 14, 2002, which was organized by Nancy Thorne and held at the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania. Before the meeting, Curator of Manuscripts, Nancy Shawcross, and Manuscript Cataloger, Maggie Kruesi, presented a diverse selection of art-and- architecture-related materials from their collections. At the business meeting, Ann Gardner was elected unanimously as Vice-President/President-Elect. The Chapter decided not to offer a Travel Award for 2003, as the ARLIS conference will be held nearby, and approved a donation of $150 to help finance the 2003 Baltimore Conference Welcome Party. Mary Louise Castaldi announced that Allen Townsend, Past President of ARLIS-DVC and incoming ARLIS/NA President, would leave the Philadelphia Museum of Art in December 2002 to take a new position at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Further business included discussion on outreach strategies and plans for the next meeting.

ARLIS/NA STRATEGIC PLAN  

Goal#1:

IB. Provide continuing education opportunities.

We continue to explore professional development activities and ways to provide continuing education to our members. We believe that visits to historic sites and special collections in our region educate and inform our members.

ISSUES FOR THE EXECUTIVE BOARD

The Chapter has no issues to raise at this time.