1.      Call to Order—President James Geraty

2.      Roll Call—Secretary James F. Strange (120 signed in)

3.      Agenda Approval —Approved Unanimously

4.      Memorial Moments—President Lawrence T. Geraty

Reuben Bullard, Harold Mare, and Bastiaan Van Elderen

5.      Greetings and Comments—Chairman P.E. MacAllister

6.      Introduction of ASOR Officers, Exec. Committee Members, and New Trustees

7.      Distributed Reports

a. ASOR President-Lawrence T. Geraty
b. Executive Director-Douglas Clark
c. Committee on Archaeological Policy-Burton MacDonald
d. Committee on Publications-Larry Herr
e. Committee on Annual Meeting and Program-Eric Cline
f. Overseas Centers and Committees: AIAR, CAARI

8.     Nominations Committee Report and Elections—Randall Younker. Ballots were distributed to vote for new Trustees. Report on results to follow in this meeting.

9.      General Q and A: (There were no questions.) Introduction of Staff by President Geraty.

10.    Discussion of ASOR's top five priorities—Douglas Clark

a. Development Director
b. Board Development
c. Membership
d. Finances
e. Academics
f. Other priorities include committee enhancement and increased journal visibility

There was a question about the ASOR regional chapters. Suzanne Richard reported that there is a move to start up new chapters, and we appreciate support of the regional chapters that already exist. Carolyn Rivers spoke to the idea of grant writing for educational outreach, such as fellowships for teachers. It may be possible to enhance funding for existing projects in this area. Babs Miley wondered aloud if we have tried to plug in the Community Colleges, as these institutions represent an untouched resource. Larry Geraty referred this idea to Martha Joukousky. Tammi Schneider points out that the Lecture Committee has sponsored eight lectures this year sponsored jointly by ASOR and other institutions, such as the Semitic Museum at Harvard, but also on the west coast and elsewhere. There was a suggestion to include archaeology under "Academics" (item E. above).

11.     Election Results Announcement—Randy Younker

ASOR Board of Trustees

Institutional slate:	Individual slate:
Gary Arbino-Class of 2005	Jennie Ebeling-Class of 2005
Barry Gittlen-Class of 2006

Eric Cline was confirmed for the Chair of the Committee on Annual Meeting and Program.

11.  New Business -
Doug Clark asked for a straw vote on the issue of the printed Program. We have talked about continuing as usual with printed program and then a sheet of corrections. An alternative would be to distribute the printed program only at the Annual Meeting, but make it available on the web before the meeting. This would allow minimal printing and save dollars. There is a question about the format of the Newsletter, whether it should be printed or move to electronic forms. This devolved into a question of who among the membership prefers to be all-electronic and who wishes to receive paper. Doug asked for a show of hands from those who would prefer an electronic version.

12.  Adjournment - 8:30 am.

Respectfully submitted,

James F. Strange, Secretary