News and Notes

	A Membership Update and Welcome to Student/Young Professionals/Patricia Pitta
	Report from Council/Dorothy Cantor
	Time Capsule: The Beginning of Division 42/Stanley Graham

		Patricia Pitta Ph.D. Past Membership Chair and Member At Large					A Membership Update and Welcome to Student/Young Professionals It is with great pleasure that I write this article about membership activities for the past year. For the past three years I have been the Membership Chair and the two major focuses were member retention and promoting new membership in 42. I am pleased that in l999 we added a new membership category “Student/Young Professional.” Being a member of 42 offers many opportunities to grow and expand your professional knowledge and horizons as a private practitioner. The following is a list of some new student/young professional who have joined our 42 family:
					Name State University Attending Colleen Biri Georgia Georgia School of Prof. Joshua Cohen Michigan Michigan State Linda Cook Oregon Portland State Carol Dubois California CCSP-Los Angeles Colleen Gregory Rhode Island Univ. of Rhode Island Theresa Hanson Illnois Southern Illinois Amanda Hanson California CSPP-LA Campus Brook Hersey New York Rutgers Elizabeth Hyland California Mt. Pepperdine Rebecca Kayo Kentucky University of Kentucky K.C. Lazzara Michigan University of Kansas Julie Leader California SUNY - Stony Brook Magaret Linton New York City University Monica Neel Maryland Loyola College James Racine New Jersey NYU Deborah Sarnel Maryland Loyola College Cella Stoltz Illinois American Inst. of Psych. Carolyn Vicchiullo Maryland Mass. School of Prof. Jeffrey Walters New York Nova Kerri Weiss Delaware University of Buffalo Jennifer Yates Maryland Loyola College
				Welcome to all of you and I hope you become active in our Division and take advantage of all our membership benefits. During the past year we conducted three major campaigns to attract new members to Division 42. We wrote to people in the following states: California, New York, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. As a result of this writing invitations we acquired 520 new members. I want to thank the 42 members who signed the letters of invitation for their states. Presently we have 5120 paid members, 818 dues exempt members and new student/young professional members joining. Members please encourage your colleagues and your students to join our Division so they may benefit from our many member benefits: the brochure project, the PICK 42 project, marketing initiatives, and receiving The Independent Practitioner, which includes information about trends in private practice as well as scholarly materials in many content areas. As of January, 2000 I will be turning the membership wand to Lou Perrot, Ph.D., who will continue these membership initiatives and add his own slant. I will be chairing a committee for Student/Young Professional Development in Division 42. In August, l999 we held our first conversation hour at the APA convention. The plan is to have a special track within the APA convention to develop and nurture our newest membership group. If you have any ideas or comments, please forward them to me at PPITTA4883@aol.com. Thank you for the opportunity to have been your Membership Chair.
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