GROVES CONFERENCE ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

June 7, 2008

10:00 AM

Dublin, Ireland

Call to Order: Leslie Koepke, President

Minutes: Karen Arms, Secretary

Financial Report: Virginia Sibbison, Treasurer

Membership: Connie Steele, Interim Chair (with Coco Readdick)

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

2008 Groves Conference: Coco Readdick, Mary Hicks, Connie Steele (Co-Chairs)

2009 Groves Conference: Connie Steele, Ginny Sibbison, Marci Lasswell (Co-Chairs)

Title: Celebrating Groves Conference: 75 Years of Family Research, Theory and Practice

Dates/Location: June 7-11, 2009; Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Nominating Committee: Karen Goebel, Chair

Membership Chair: Norma Burgess (2008-2011)

At-Large Representative: Joanne Roberts (2008-2011)

Awards Committee: Marilyn Coleman, Chair

Sussman Award, 2008 – Celia Falicov

(2007). Working with Transnational Immigrants: Expanding Meanings of Family Community, and Culture. Family Process, 46, (2),157-171.

Groves Publishing/products:

2007 Conference publication – Lee Ann De Reus and Libby Blume (Eds.)

2009 Conference Anniversary publication – Roger Rubin, Barbara Settles (Eds.)

Groves Marketing:

Groves Website - Judith Fischer

Groves Conferences for 2010, 2011, 2012 – themes, locations, chairs (general discussion)

Remembering Marvin Sussman