From: ksbooth@cs.ubc.ca (Kellogg Booth)
Subject: Nominations for 1993 ACM SIGGRAPH Elections
Keywords: acm, siggraph, nominations
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 01:41:21 GMT


               1993 ACM SIGGRAPH Nominating Committee Report

              Notification of Slate to ACM SIGGRAPH Membership

     The ACM SIGGRAPH nominating committee has selected a slate of six
candidates to run for three positions on the ACM SIGGRAPH executive
committee: chair, vice chair and treasurer.  An executive committee
member serves two years, with the possibility of being nominated for a
second two-year term.  Winners take office on July 1, 1993.

     Ideally, the ACM SIGGRAPH executive committee must represent
and balance the broad spectrum of interests characteristic of
ACM SIGGRAPH.  With this in mind, the nominating committee on behalf
of the membership has selected candidates representing the varied
constituencies within ACM SIGGRAPH.  The candidates selected by the
nominating committee are the following.

     Chair               Raymond L. Elliott
                         Los Alamos National Laboratory

     Chair               Mary C. Whitton
                         Sun Microsystems, Inc.

     Vice Chair          Copper Giloth
                         University of Massachusetts at Amherst

     Vice Chair          Sylvie Rueff
                         Comprehensive Arts Network

     Treasurer           Christopher L. Herot
                         Lotus Development Corporation

     Treasurer           Steven M. Van Frank
                         Lynxsys, Inc.

     Each nominee has agreed to commit a minimum of one or two days per
month to fulfilling the duties of an ACM SIGGRAPH executive committee
member in addition to the time required to attend the four regularly
scheduled executive committee meetings each year.  This commitment has
been formally acknowledged to the nominating committee.

     The nominating committee wishes to stress the importance of
all ACM SIGGRAPH members voting in the 1993 election.  The election
is a poll of ideas and directions as well as a selection of three
individuals.  Therefore we hope that all members take the time to
study the candidates and their opinions on the issues.

     Candidacy statements, biographical information and photographs of
each nominee will be printed in the January, 1993 ACM SIGGRAPH
newsletter that will accompany the mailing of ballots so that the
membership can become better acquainted with the nominees and their
qualifications.  Each nominee will be asked to discuss important issues
currently facing ACM SIGGRAPH and to comment on how his or her
experience and qualifications relate to addressing those issues.

     In accordance with the ACM SIGGRAPH Bylaws, additional candidates for
any executive committee position may be nominated by petition.  A
notice of intent to nominate by petition must be received at ACM
headquarters no later than December 1, 1992 and should be addressed to
Pat Ryan with copies to the ACM SIGGRAPH Area Director (Sig Treu)
and the ACM SIGGRAPH Director of Communications (Alyce Kaprow).
Pat Ryan may be contacted directly for further information regarding
the nomination process, or any other aspect of the election procedures,
at the following address.

     Pat Ryan
     Director of Policy and Administration
     Association for Computing Machinery
     1515 Broadway
     17th Floor
     New York, NY 10036
     212/869-7440
     212/944-1318 FAX
     PatRyan@acmvm.bitnet

     Petitions with signatures of one percent of the ACM SIGGRAPH
membership (approximately 120 signatures) and the consent of the
nominee must be received at ACM headquarters no later than December
15, 1992.  All nominees must be voting members of both ACM and
SIGGRAPH.

     Petition candidates will be asked to submit photographs,
biographical information and candidacy statements in the same
format as those of the candidates selected by the nominating
committee.  These materials must be received by the chair of the
nominating committee no later than December 15, 1992.

     Members may expect their official ballots to arrive by mail with
the January, 1993 issue of the newsletter.  All ballots must be
received at ACM headquarters no later than June 15, 1993 (the exact
date will be specified on the ballot).  Ballots received after that
date will not be counted.

     All members of ACM SIGGRAPH are eligible to vote.

     The 1993 ACM SIGGRAPH nominating committee consists of the ACM
SIGGRAPH past chair (Kellogg Booth), who chairs the nominating
committee, and two members of ACM SIGGRAPH appointed by the past chair
(Thomas DeFanti and Andrew Goodrich).