Minutes of the Second General Meeting. Held at 10.00 on Sunday, 27th September, 1981 At the Penta Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal.
Present:
W. Niemeyer (Chariman)
R. Hinchcliffe (Vice Chairman)
O. Bentzen (Treasurer)
D. Stephens (Secretary General)
National Representatives of 15 Countries
V. Baschek (FRG)
W. Keidel (FRG)
S. Harris (Sweden)
J. Hazell (U.K.)
V. Rasas de Costa (Portugal)
R. Johanssen (Finland)
K. Schorn (FRG)
1. - Apologies for Absence were received from D. Borkowska-Gaertig, P. Gannon, A. Glorig, Y.P. Kapur, S. Prasansuk.
2. - Minutes of the First Meeting held in Wiesbaden were approved and signed.
3. - Matters Arising;
3a) Location of next Professional Meeting;
Colletti offered to organize the next meeting in Verona and Harris offered to organize it in Malmö.
Following considerable discussion it was unanimously decided that the 1983 meeting be held in Verona and the 1985 meeting in Malmö. The Principle of holding professional meetings in the years between International Congresses of Audiology was supported and accepted.
Colletti proposed a theme on "Syndromes Connected with Hearing Disorders". This was strongly welcomed. It was considered important that an emphasis should be put on Medical Themes at future conferences.
Colletti would liaise with Hennebert with regard to the exact date of the meeting. It would be held in the spring, but it was important to avoid a clash with the Conference of the European Association of Audio-Phonological Centres, scheduled for Brussels for March 10th-13th 1983.
3b) Format of Future Professional Meetings;
The general format of future meetings was discussed. The importance of restricting papers to a few major themes was emphasised, with the proposal that other papers could be presented in poster sessions.
Great stress should be put in the future on ensuring a high standard of papers from the point of their medico-scientific content.
4. - Secretary-General's Report;
The Secretary General reported that the Association now had 33 National Representatives and a total membership of 102.
He presented an account of the Executive Committee Meeting held in London January 22nd/23rd 1981.
| Country |
Name |
Source of Address |
| Czechoslovakie |
Sedlacek |
Available |
| Egypt |
Nasr-Kotbi |
OB |
| Greece |
? |
? |
| India |
? |
OB/RH |
| Israel |
Eliachar |
PP |
| Libya |
? |
OB |
| Netherlands |
? |
OB |
| New Zealand |
? |
OB |
| Spain |
Baraga |
PP |
| Sudan |
? |
OB |
| Switzerland |
Spillman |
Available |
| South Africa |
? |
SDGS via G. Heron |
| U.S.S.R. |
Khechinashvili |
RH |
| Yogoslavia |
Pecelj |
RH |
In addition, the Secretary General would contact the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China for suggestions of possible representative.
Dr. Bentzen, in conjunction with Dr. C. Rojskjaer and Prof. Hinchcliffe will consider other possibilities from Black Africa, Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, etcetera.
Membership;
4a) Founder Members;
The Secretary General had produced the following list of founder members who had either attended the Krakow and/or Wiesbaden meetings or expressed an interest. (National representatives and officers are excluded from this list).
W. Bochenek (Poland)
L. Fisch (U.K.)
P. Kapur (U.S.A.)
W. Kumpf (F.R.G.)
G. Lidén (Sweden)
L. Luxon (U.K.)
J. A. M. Martin (U.K.)
H. Opitz (F.R.G.)
A. Parving (Denmark)
W. Rubin (U.S.A.)
G. Salomon (Denmark)
B. Seelenfreund (F.R.G.)
S. E. Snashall (U.K.)
S. Soliman (Egypt)
T. Suzuki (Japan)
I. G. Taylor (U.K.)
The Secretary General had written to these sending copies of the Constitution and inviting them to become members if the accepted the tenets of that document.
In addition, Prof. Niemeyer added the following names of persons who had expressed regret at not being able to attend the Wiesbaden meeting:
L. Anggård (Sweden)
Bauer (F.R.G.)
P. Biesalski (F.R.G.)
A. Bosatra (Italy)
H. Chuden (F.R.G.)
M. Dix (U.K.)
G. Djupesland (Norway)
H. Feldmann (F.R.G.)
J. Hazell (U.K.)
H. E. Holst (Sweden)
P. Plath (F.R.G.)
The Secretary General would write to these in the same way.
4b) Normal Membership;
Three applications had been received from Italy. Two had been acknowledged and the further one would be after this meeting.
The procedure would be that the Secretary General would write to the National Representative enquiring as to whether:
- the appliciant was medically qualified
- he/she has completed his/her specialist training
- he/she works predominantly in Audiological Medicine
If the answers were affermative membership would be fonfirmed.
4c) Honorary Members;
Prof. Niemeyer would write to Dr. Becholdt and Prof. Keidel inviting them to become Honorary Members of the Association.
4d) Sustaining Members;
The letter preparied by Dr. Bentzen inviting manufacturing and pharmacological companies to become sustaining members of the Association at a fe of 1.000 Swiss Francs per annum was modified and approved.
Dr. Bentzen would produce a list of such companies.
The companies becoming members would receive a membership certificate to be designed by Dr. Bentzen a list of the names and addresses of Members of the Association and would be given priority in exhibition held at the Associations symposia.
5. - Treasurer's Report;
The Treasurer reported a poor response to his approach to Manufacturing Companies to become sustaining members of the Association. He had received only one positive reply - from Bommer who had paid 1.000 Swiss Francs.
The Treasurer raised the matter of an annual subscription to the Association. Following considerable discussion, an Annual Subscription of $U.S. 20 was agreed with $10 for those members still in training.
5a) Subscriptions;
It was agreed that an annual subscription be levied from general and founding members of the Association. The size of the subscription would be decided at Lisbon and would be dependent upon the Associations income from sustaining members.
5b) Publication of Lisbon Conference;
Dr. Bentzen reported costings for publication of the proceedings of the Lisbon Conference received from the Publisher of Scandinavian Audiology.
6. - Report of the Organizer of the First International Symposium;
Dr. Pizarro reported that the Symposium had been attended by 100-120 participants. It was too early yet to offer any financial report. Finances had been hit by the lack of commercial exhibitors although some limited report had been obtained from private institutions.
Dr. Pizarro was warmly congratulated on organising such an enjoyable meeting in so short a period of time.
7. - Constitution of the Association;
This would be sent to all paid up Members of the Association.
8. - Policy with regard to future Memberships;
This had been discussed at the meeting of National Representatives whose responsibility it would be to attract suitable new members from their countries. Application forms would be drawn up together with a list of members, which would be sent to National Representatives.
9. -Publication of Proceedings;
It was considered that it would be premature to consider starting a new journal. Hoke offered to approach Karger's to determine whether they might be prepared to publish future symposia in a new series entitled "Advances in Audiological Medicine". It was agreed that he should make such an approach.
It was agreed that Pizarro and Stephens summarize the Lisbon Conference in the form of abstracts which would be circulated to members. It was agreed that a regular Newsletter/Bulletin be produced regularly for circulation to members. The Report on the Lisbon Conference would be included in that.
10. -Any Other Business;
10a) International Bureau of Audiological-Phonology;
This is a multi-disciplinary, multi professional organization. It was agreed that Hennebert represent IAPA's interests in that bureau.
10b) International School of Audiology;
Bentzen and Colletti both independent raised the idea of establishing an International School of Audiology.
It was agreed that they liaise about this matter and report back to the next meeting.
11. -The Next Meeting;
The next meeting will be hald at Helsinki immediately following the International Congress of Audiology on May 27th 1982.
