1.      Roll Call—Secretary James F. Strange

2.      Agenda Approval —Approved Unanimously

3.      Memorial Moments—President Lawrence T. Geraty

Leon Levy, Honorary Trustee, 1925-2003
Walter Rast, Honored one year ago, 1930-2003

4.      Greetings and Comments—Chairman P.E. MacAllister - waived.

5.      Report on the Feasibility Study —David Rosenstein. 

David proposed a study to poll the membership and find out what the members want to happen. Primarily the members report that they want structural shifts to take place in order to attract outside money. About 600+ inquiries were sent out and 120 people participated in the study, which was conducted by Loren Basch. He introduced Loren.

Basch read President Geraty's letter to those participating. He added that this is one of the building blocks of a strategic fund-raising plan. The study itself is about 80 pages, heavily weighted with comments from those participating. He stressed that we deal with our own recommendations. Basch observed that there are only a handful of people who are not scholars helping ASOR. ASOR is typical of what he sees in non-profits now, the change from pre-eminent leadership to new times.

The recommendations are about re-positioning the organization.

a. Now is the time to move forward.
b. Strengthen professional staff with "first money."
c. Either hire a combination Executive Director/Development Director OR a separate Executive Director and a separate Development Director. The new Director will have to be a much more prepared to work even beyond the internal community to the philanthropic community. Basch outlined some of the characteristics of a successful fund raiser in this area.
d. Add 10-15 people to the Board who will understand what it means to give $5 to $20 k per year.
e. Clearly know what we want.

There is a lot of belief that CAP is the operative core direction in terms of linking up with the institutes abroad. There is a strong belief in excavations as the cornerstone of what we do. We recognized in 1980 that we needed to reach a popular audience by way of a lecture series, local conferences, local chapters, etc. to broaden the scope of our efforts.

President Larry Geraty said that we regard this report as the leadership's marching orders. Larry has identified about 15 potential lay trustees so far, but we need 15 more. He appealed to the membership for more names. Larry noted that ASOR has decided to follow the second recommendation to hire a separate Executive Director and a separate Development Director. We are giving some thought to a specific potential Director of Development from a major university.

6.      Reports Circulated in written form:

a. President's Report-L.T. Geraty
b. Executive Director's Report-R. Dornemann
c. Treasurer's Report-R. Dornemann
d. Development Report-A. Ritterspach
e. Nominations Committee and Elections- Randall Younker, who advised the membership that there are two categories of membership, Individual and Institutional members. Institutional members elect Institutional Rep Trustees. A Report from CAP sends forward the name of Burton Macdonald to replace David McCreery as head of CAP. The Report of Elections will be posted on the web. It will be mailed to anyone who requests it.
f. Overseas Centers and Committees: ACOR, AIAR, CAARI, Damascus Committee, Baghdad Committee, Saudi Arabia
g. Reports from Operating Committees: CAP, COP, CAMP

7.      General Q and A

9.       Election Results Announcement—Randy Younker

ASOR Board of Trustees

Institutional slate:	Individual slate:
Oded Borowski	Nan Frederick
Melody Knowles	Jimmy Hardin
Tammi Schneider	Bethany Walker

Nominations Committee

Institutional Slate: Ann Killebrew
Individual Slate: Eric Cline

Agenda Committee

Institutional Slate: Suzanne Richard
Individual Slate: Alysia Fischer

Burton MacDonald was confirmed for the Chair of CAP.

11.  New Business

12.  Adjournment

Respectfully submitted,

James F. Strange, Secretary