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Proposed New Constitution and Bylaws
A RECENT ACTION taken by the Society's Board of Governors requires that certain matters be submitted to the Society members for their consideration and decision. A special committee, which the then incumbent President Loren Ryder appointed on October 24, 1948, considered the advisability of acknowledging in some formal way the growing interest of the Society and its members in the relatively new field of television. On April 3, 1949, the Committee reported to the Board of Governors that agreement had been reached — only one member dissenting — on a proposal to change the name of the association from * 'Society of Motion Picture Engineers" to ' 'Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers." This change of name requires a change in the Constitution.
Another special committee was also appointed by the then President Loren Ryder, on January 23, 1947, to study the Society's fundamental purposes and its methods of operation.
This Committee was also asked to reconcile certain inconsistencies that exist between the Constitution and Bylaws, and in addition to reword certain paragraphs, or articles, which were obscure or redundant.
The Board has endorsed these proposals and now, as required by Article VII of the Constitution, the proposed name change, with the other recommended changes, will be submitted for discussion by the members at the Annual Meeting of the Society (which is a part of the Fall Convention) ; and then, immediately following the meeting, the proposals, with a letter ballot and a transcript of the meeting discussion, will go to all voting members for their formal action.
The new Constitution, which has been proposed, is published here in advance of its distribution to the voting membership, since it is of interest to all the Society members. Comparison between the old and the new Constitutions may be readily made by referring to page 463 of the JOURNAL for April, 1949. The change-of-name question will be included with the Constitution letter ballot, which will be mailed shortly after the Fall Convention. 304 SEPTEMBER, 1949 JOURNAL OF THE SMPE VOLUME 53